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U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton has canceled plans to travel to South Korea ahead of next week's summit in Hanoi aimed at addressing North Korea's nuclear program, Bolton's spokesman Garrett Marquis said on Friday. Bolton decided to stay in Washington to focus on...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA and SpaceX on Friday approved a first test flight next week of the new commercial Dragon capsule designed for crew.
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Kelly Knight Craft speaks in Ottawa in 2017. Donald Trump is nominating Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations. Knight is currently the US ambassador to Canada.
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Japan's space program JAXA has had a very eventful 24 hours. The group's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe, which arrived at its target Ryugu last year, performed its most challenging maneuver yet by leaving its orbit around the rock and touching down on its surface for just a moment. But that's...
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The approval cleared a key hurdle for SpaceX in its quest to help NASA revive America's human spaceflight program, stalled since space shuttle missions came to an end in 2011. NASA has awarded SpaceX $2.6 billion, and aerospace rival Boeing Co $4.2 billion to build separate rocket and capsule launc...
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Thousands of people in cities across Algeria marched on Friday to protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's plan to seek a fifth term and police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the capital. The 81-year-old Bouteflika, in office since 1999, will contest the April 18 presidential election...
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The Boston-based Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) made the determination using a commonly cited cost-effectiveness threshold that values each "quality-adjusted life year" (QALY) gained at $100,000 to $150,000. If each QALY gained were assessed at $500,000, ICER found the gene thera...
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In a televised speech, Bashir also said he would dissolve the central government as well as state governments. "Firm economic measures should be taken in a new government", Bashir said, adding that he will assign that task to a qualified team. The anti-government demonstrations began on Dec. 19, t...
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A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change Temperature, precipitation, wind Change Point Analysis of Global Temperature Records Improved decadal prediction of Northern-Hemisphere summer land temperature Impact of Atmospheric Heat and Moisture Transport on the...
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Virgin Galactic's spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) on Friday, carrying for the first time a passenger in addition to its two pilots. SpaceShipTwo, built by British billionaire Richard Branson to carry tourists into space, launched from California's Mojave deser...
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Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses, who will train future space tourists, joined pilots onboard SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity to evaluate the customer experience and cabin. “This is what we’re here to do, we’re here to fly people in the back of our spaceship, that’s what it’s all abou...
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The company's long-promised goal of commercial spaceflight is one step closer to reality.
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The scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have released the sharpest possible view of the mission’s latest target, a smooshed-in cosmic snowman known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule. New Horizons captured gigabytes’ worth of imagery and data as it flew past the icy object, more than 4 billio...
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“It’s been an incredible 13 years, and I’m proud of what Twitter has accomplished during my time with the company,” Williams, 46, now chief executive office of web publisher Medium Corp., said Friday in a company filing. Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone started the San Francisco-based social med...