First Arab female astronaut reaches space station
Saudi biomedical scientist Rayyanah Barnawi will carry out breast cancer research while in orbit.
2023-05-22 22:45
Meta slapped with record $1.3 billion EU data privacy fine
Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European regulators for transferring data belonging to Facebook's EU users to servers in the United States.
2023-05-22 17:47
Montenegro country profile
Provides an overview of Montenegro, including key facts about this southeast European country.
2023-05-22 17:25
Zelenskiy seeks G7 support for Kyiv's 'peace formula'
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought global support on Sunday for Kyiv's plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine,
2023-05-21 14:59
Spanish princess Leonor graduates from UWC Atlantic College in Wales
King Felipe VI of Spain went to his daughter's graduation ceremony at the college in Llantwit Major.
2023-05-21 02:28
Father of 4 pleaded for help on Facebook Live before dying in construction fire, family says
A construction worker pleaded for help on Facebook Live before he died in a construction site fire in Charlotte, North Carolina, family members told CNN affiliate WSOC.
2023-05-20 04:15
2023 WNBA Preseason Power Rankings: Aces, Liberty, then who?
After an unprecedented off-season, the WNBA regular season has returned. Where does each team stand as action tips off?The 2023 WNBA off-season will go down in the history books as league-altering. Multiple former MVPs changed teams, forming super teams in Vegas and New York. Another former MVP ...
2023-05-20 02:55
Woman who called police on Black bird-watcher faces skeptical court in employment appeal
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK A U.S. appeals court on Friday appeared unlikely to reinstate a lawsuit by
2023-05-20 00:21
Greenpeace to shut down in Russia after being declared 'undesirable organisation'
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian branch of environmental group Greenpeace on Friday said it would shut down after authorities declared the
2023-05-20 00:16
Nasa says Jeff Bezos will build moon lander for Artemis mission
Nasa has named Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin as the second company to build a lunar lander under its Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the Moon for the firs time in more than 50 years. The US space agency awarded the first contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in 2021 in a $3 billion deal that was disputed by Mr Bezos at the time. Those initial missions using SpaceX’s Starship system are slated for later this decade. “We want more competition, we want two landers,” Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson said at an event in Washington on Friday. “It means you have reliability, you have backups. It benefits Nasa, it benefits the American people.” Today’s announcement evokes deja vu for Amazon.com founder Bezos and defense contractor Dynetics Inc, the head of a partnership with Northrop Grumman. Those companies lost out to SpaceX for the 2021 contract, part of an initial moon lander procurement program. Nasa under that program said it could pick up to two companies, but blamed budget constraints for only going with SpaceX. The new contract is the biggeset ever deal for Blue Origin, which Mr Bezos founded in 2000. The Amazon founder has invested billions of dollars into the company to compete for high-profile commercial and government space contracts with SpaceX. After losing in 2021, Blue Origin unsuccessfully fought to overturn Nasa’s decision to ignore its Blue Moon lander, first with a watchdog agency and then in court. Blue Origin and lawmakers had pressured Nasa to award a second lunar lander contract to promote commercial competition and ensure the agency has a backup ride to the moon. Nasa in early 2022 announced the program for a second lander contract. Nasa chief Bill Nelson said at the time: “I promised competition, so here it is.” Blue Origin has already named its corporate partners for the lunar lander: Lockheed Martin , Boeing, spacecraft software firm Draper, and robotics firm Astrobotic. Northrop Grumman, previously a key partner in Blue Origin’s unsuccessful Blue Moon bid in 2021, switched teams to join its former rival Dynetics. Nasa’s multi-spacecraft plan for the Artemis moonshots involves its Space Launch System rocket launching astronauts toward the moon aboard the Lockheed-built Orion capsule. That will dock in space with a lunar lander that will ferry the crew the rest of the way to the Moon’s surface. Additional reporting from agencies Read More ‘It’s becoming like an airport’: How SpaceX normalised rocket launches Watch live: Nasa reveals who will build second Artemis lunar lander Nasa Mars lander study reveals ‘main source of heat’ on Red Planet Saturn’s rings are no more than 400 million years old – study
2023-05-19 23:20
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A team led by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin won a coveted NASA contract
2023-05-19 22:55
How Priyanka Chopra Jonas's brother played a key role in kickstarting her career
Priyanka Chopra Jonas's journey in the limelight began in 2000 when she was crowned Miss World -- thanks in part to a nudge from her younger brother, Siddharth Chopra.
2023-05-19 20:49