The return to Earth of Boeing’s Starliner capsule will be delayed a few more days due to thruster troubleshooting and a scheduled spacewalk. NASA announced today (June 18) that Starliner will conclude its first human mission to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than June 26, nearly three weeks after it launched. Landing that […]
A key vessel Marines need to move around in a potential island shootout with China is two years behind schedule, could cost nearly triple its original estimate and the short-term fix isn’t cheap. The Navy’s landing ship medium program expects to award its design and construction contract in fiscal year 2025, two years later than […]
After launching June 5 to the International Space Station onboard Boeing’s Starliner, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were planning for a roughly eight-day mission. While their visit was already extended once to June 22, NASA announced Tuesday that the crew’s return will be moved again — to June 26. On its crewed flight […]
Jun. 16—RIO PUERCO VALLEY — David Ryan is driving his 2013 blue Ford Escape from Bernalillo northwest along U.S. 550 early on a recent weekday morning. He’s got one-half of the back seat dropped down to support a dog bed, on which his rat terrier Sparky and rat terrier/Chihuahua mix Sami are reclining. “It’s right […]
China has released a video highlighting its submarine force’s 70th anniversary. In it, we see a Type 074 (also called the Yuhai class) amphibious landing ship being attacked in a sinking exercise (SINKEX) or similar test. This is a rare glimpse into the effects of China’s submarine weapons capabilities. The video was posted on China’s […]
Boeing’s first crewed Starliner mission, that ferried astronauts to the International Space Station, will need to wait a little longer before returning its crew to Earth. On June 5, the Crew Flight Test (CFT) for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board; the spacecraft docked at the International […]
An 8-year-old girl died Thursday after a United Airlines flight required an emergency landing at General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins said that at 7 a.m., deputies responded to the airport after receiving a report of a plane landing at PIA due to a medical emergency. The flight, which […]
When a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket first-stage booster returned to Earth’s atmosphere Friday night and settled atop the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean, it marked the 300th booster landing for the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 program. After four delays totaling just shy of two hours Friday night, SpaceX launched the […]
By Janis Laizans ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) – With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after the allied landing that started the liberation of France from Nazi occupation. The son of a World War Two soldier, British […]
Elon Musk’s mammoth new rocket system has returned to Earth in a groundbreaking fourth test flight that culminated in a first-ever soft ocean landing for the Starship craft. The aim was to get the rocket’s upper section – the Ship – to make a controlled return into the atmosphere and then to ditch in the […]
DENVER (KDVR) — Julianna Donadio was on Southwest Airlines flight No. 225 going from Denver to Phoenix Monday night when the jet had to return to Denver International Airport, making an emergency landing after one of the tires failed at takeoff. Southwest said the flight landed without incident, but Donadio said it was a frightening […]
Investors may be grousing at the highest interest rates in over two decades, but one economist says the Fed may not have raised rates enough—and we may be stuck with higher prices as a consequence. When the central bank stopped raising interest rates in July 2023 it may not have led to sufficient tightening in […]