A private Chinese rocket took an unscheduled flight over the weekend. The Beijing-based company Space Pioneer conducted a “static fire” test with the first stage of its new Tianlong-3 rocket on Sunday (June 30) in Gongyi, a city of about 800,000 people in the central Chinese province of Henan. Space Pioneer briefly ignited the stage’s […]
STORY: :: A Chinese space rocket launches accidentally during a test before crashing :: June 30, 2024 :: Gongyi, China There were no reports of casualties after an initial investigation, Beijing Tianbing, also known as Space Pioneer, said in a statement on its official WeChat account. Parts of the rocket stage were scattered within a […]
Chinese space firm Tianbing Aerospace Technology said it accidentally launched a rocket it was testing. The Tianlong-3 is designed as a rival to SpaceX’s Falcon 9, with a similar takeoff mass and reflight. But a stationary engine test on Sunday saw the rocket lift off and crash into a mountain. A Chinese space firm said […]
The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Thursday when it ruled that emergency room doctors can now perform emergency abortions in Idaho, despite the state’s near-total ban on abortion. The 6-3 decision comes after a version of the opinion was briefly posted to the Supreme Court’s website by mistake on Wednesday. It was […]
The Supreme Court may have inadvertently telegraphed the outcome of a key abortion case Wednesday, in the clash between Idaho’s near-total ban and a federal law requiring emergency care. Bloomberg Law reported that it obtained a copy of the document that the court said was accidentally posted on its website and has since been removed. […]
It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and the planet is poised to race past the hoped-for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. But […]
Representative Lauren Boebert wants to bring morality back. Ironic, no? The Colorado Republican went off on a tangent Thursday evening while cheerleading Louisiana’s wild new law mandating that the Ten Commandments be hung in every public school classroom, from kindergarten to state university, on prison-bound Steve Bannon’s podcast. The Louisiana legislation is a blatant violation […]
NASA has been forced to reassure the public that there is no emergency aboard the International Space Station, after audio of a medical drill was accidentally played on a livestream Wednesday night. The regular scheduled livestream was interrupted at 6:28 p.m. ET by an unidentified speaker — apparently a flight surgeon — liaising with the […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – NASA accidentally broadcast a simulation of astronauts being treated for decompression sickness on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, prompting speculation of an emergency in posts on social media. About 5:28 p.m. U.S. Central Time (2228 GMT), The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) live YouTube channel broadcast audio that indicated […]
Weeks after he was convicted of 34 felony counts in his hush-money trial, Donald Trump confessed to having a gun—which would be illegal with his felony conviction. New York City Department of Probation officials questioned the convicted felon and Republican presidential nominee Tuesday in a presentencing interview, and part of the discussion concerned a gun […]
Donald Trump on Sunday joked that he didn’t care about his supporters ― but screen icon Mark Hamill and other critics of the former president said there was more than a little truth in the crack. Trump made the remark as he urged fans to stay safe at an outdoor rally in Las Vegas, where […]
PAI, Thailand – Two British tourists in Thailand were horrified as they inadvertently allowed hundreds of moths to flood their hotel room. In a series of videos posted on TikTok, Jemma Sayer captured a startling scene in the popular tourist destination of Pai. The footage shows a massive swarm of insects overtaking their bed and […]