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Orion Returns: NASA’s Artemis Mission a Success Despite Delay

  • December 12, 2022
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Though it was originally slated for late August, weather concerns and mechanical issues forced its launch back over a month and a half. Eventually, the Artemis I rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center on November 16th. NASA The purpose of the mission? To lay the groundwork (spacework?) for future crewed missions to the Moon. […]

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What did schools do with their emergency “pandemic” money?

  • December 12, 2022
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Literally nobody should be surprised by what public schools did with all that pandemic aid they got during the COVID emergency. Very little of it actually was spent on making schools more resilient to COVID or COVID-like diseases. If you thought the money would be going primarily to health-related investments you would be disappointed. It […]

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We have the Lockerbie bombmaker in U.S. custody

  • December 11, 2022
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Dec 21, 1988, seems like a million years ago, but my memories of that day are as fresh as ever. [embedded content] The Pan Am 747 had just lifted off, full of fuel, and was on its way from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York’s JFK. 55 minutes later, it blew apart mid-air over Scotland […]