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⋅ July 25, 2024
NEWS
Space.com

50 days after launch to ISS, Boeing’s Starliner still has no landing date
Space.com
Commands will be done from the ground, although NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the astronauts flying on Starliner’s current mission, known as Crew Flight Test (CFT) — will likely join, due to their interest as former U.S. Navy test test …
CNN

Boeing, NASA may have found ‘root cause’ of Starliner spacecraft’s issues, but astronauts are still in limbo
CNN
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. NASA. The findings …
Space.com

X-rays reveal secret gas in huge and distant galaxy cluster
Space.com
Coulntless stars and points of light in black space. In the center, a bright. The composite visible light and X-ray image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2390, showing the …
Space.com

Space is becoming an ‘unsustainable environment in the long term,’ ESA says
Space.com
Space, just beyond the reach of Earth’s atmosphere, is kind of like a teenager’s bedroom: Even when you try to clean it, it somehow keeps getting messier. At least, that’s one of the findings from the 2024 Space Environment Report published by the …
CBS News

Boeing’s Starliner space capsule faces make-or-break tests before crew can come home
CBS News
Unexpected helium leaks and degraded maneuvering thrusters, discovered during the ship’s rendezvous with the International Space Station in early June, triggered weeks of testing and analysis that have extended the ship’s first piloted test flight from a …
Space.com

SpaceX rocket failure highlights need for multiple launch options: ‘Falcon 9 is not invulnerable’
Space.com
Before the July 11 incident, SpaceX had launched 68 Falcon 9 missions in 2024 already, all of them successful. It was the first in-flight failure for the rocket since June 2015, a stretch that featured more than 300 successful orbital liftoffs.
Space.com

Next Blue Origin space tourism flight will launch youngest woman above the Kármán line
Space.com
headshots of six smiling people — four men and two women — are displayed in two. The crewmembers for NS-26, Blue Origin’s next suborbital space tourism mission. A launch date …
EarthSky

Will this ‘hairpin turn’ exoplanet become a hot Jupiter?
EarthSky
Exoplanet TIC 241249530 has an extremely elongated, cucumber-shaped orbit, making a sharp “hairpin turn” every time it approaches its star. The exoplanet also orbits its star backward, another rare phenomenon among observed transiting exoplanets.
Space.com

Discovery of ‘dark oxygen’ from deep-sea metal lumps could trigger rethink of origins of life
Space.com
In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed “dark oxygen.” Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, …
New York Post

The Chimps Who Learned to Say ‘Mama’
The New York Times
After analyzing decades-old videos of captive chimpanzees, scientists have concluded that the animals could utter a human word: “mama.” It’s not exactly the expansive dialogue in this year’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.