Jun. 21—Previous Miss Portsmouth Baylee Joy Martin(left center) hugging Miss Shawnee and Miss Ohio Stephanie Finoti (right center) at the local pageant, just after being crowned. Stephanie Finoti, Miss Ohio 2024 Miss Portsmouth Baylee Joy Martin(left center) hugging Miss Shawnee and Miss Ohio Stephanie Finoti (right center) at the local pageant, just after being crowned. […]
Francesca Brady, right, co-founded AirRated to drastically improve the quality of air in our homes, offices, schools and gyms. Photo: Getty Images Francesca Brady is co-founder and CEO of indoor air quality certification business AirRated. She won the 2024 Veuve Clicquot Bold Future Award. After my Masters degree in environmental geosciences, I started a lifestyle […]
Rocket Lab reached the milestone 50th launch of its Electron rocket in record time. An Electron lifted off from Pad B at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 2:13 p.m. EDT on June 20 (1813 GMT; 6:13 a.m. local New Zealand time on June 21). The rocket was operating with an instantaneous launch […]
Rocket Lab reached the milestone 50th launch of its Electron rocket in record time. An Electron lifted off from Pad B at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 2:13 p.m. EDT on June 20 (1813 GMT; 6:13 a.m. local New Zealand time on June 21). The rocket was operating with an instantaneous launch […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Conditions were right for Bakersfield residents to catch a glimpse of the latest SpaceX mission. A Falcon 9 rocket took off just after 8:30 p.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base. This mission put 20 Starlink internet service satellites into orbit, the company said. Viewer video sent to 17 News of Tuesday’s […]
This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. A hammerhead shark less than one meter long swims frantically in a plastic container aboard a boat in the Sanquianga National Natural Park, off Colombia’s Pacific coast. It is a delicate female Sphyrna corona, the world’s smallest hammerhead species, and goes by the local name cornuda amarilla — yellow hammerhead — […]
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 […]
CONSTANTA, Romania (Reuters) – Finland on Tuesday made its first deployment for NATO since joining the alliance in April 2023, sending seven F-18 fighter jets to a military base in southeastern Romania where they will conduct air shielding missions with Romanian and British jets. A Finnish Air Force commander said the mission would help speed […]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is experiencing five “small” helium leaks as its first astronaut-crewed flight test continues, the aerospace company and NASA said in an update on Monday. While a major milestone was reached when Starliner successfully docked and delivered two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) on June 6, the leaks mark the […]
About that five-star red flag now in position on the far side of the moon — it’s made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that’s plentiful on the lunar surface (as well as here on Earth). On June 2, China’s Chang’e 6 robotic lander touched down in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the […]
The first astronaut mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule will last a bit longer than we’d thought. Starliner launched on June 5, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) on a shakeout cruise called Crew Flight Test (CFT). Wilmore and Williams arrived at the orbiting lab on June 6 […]
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn up high in the atmosphere. You can see meteoroids larger than about a golf ball when they light up as […]