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Crewed SpaceX mission delayed after leak in ground equipment
The launch of SpaceX's four-person Polaris Dawn mission will be delayed by at least a day because of a helium leak in ground equipment at Kennedy Space Center, the company said on Tuesday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of its Crew Dragon capsule. "Teams are taking a closer look at a ground-side helium leak," it added in Tuesday's post. Only government astronauts have performed spacewalks to date, most recently by occupants of the International Space Station, who regularly don spacesuits t
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SpaceX Polaris launch postponed after helium leak is detected
A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens will have to wait to launch into space after a helium leak forced a launch delay until later this week at the earliest.
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SpaceX pushes launch of daring Polaris Dawn mission back to Wednesday. Meet the 4-person crew spearheading it
Here’s why tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, former US Air Force pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet, and SpaceX engineers Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon are going to orbit.
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The worldwide catastrophe of rising seas especially imperils Pacific paradises, Guterres says
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific island nations, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued yet another climate SOS to the world. This time he said those initials stand for “save our seas.” The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization Monday issued reports on worsening sea level rise, turbocharged by a warming Earth and melting ice sheets and glaciers.
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Matching dinosaur footprints found more than 3,700 miles apart
Footprints dating back 120 million years show where dinosaurs were able to cross between land that's now part of two different continents.
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts will conduct high-flying research in Earth orbit
Polaris Dawn has lots of science on board. The SpaceX mission will fly high in Earth orbit to investigate how the human body changes under the extreme conditions of space.
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Blue Origin's next space tourism flight will launch on Aug. 29
Blue Origin is targeting Thursday (Aug. 29) for the launch of its eighth suborbital crewed mission, a flight called NS-26.
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