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James Lovell of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 and other astronauts commemorate the achievements of the Apollo program and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2009.
James Lovell of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 and other astronauts commemorate the achievements of the Apollo program and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2009.
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US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97

Lovell travelled to the Moon twice but never walked on the lunar surface, but he is considered one of the greats of the US space program after rescuing the Apollo 13 mission that teetered on the brink of disaster.

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NASA astronauts depart space station after five-month mission

US astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, the Crew-10 commander, boarded the gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule on Friday afternoon along with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov ahead of a 17.5-hour trek back to Earth to a splashdown site off the California coast.

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NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars

A new NASA directive -- first reported by Politico and seen by AFP on Tuesday -- calls for the appointment of a nuclear power czar to select two commercial proposals within six months, framing the push as crucial to outpacing a joint Chinese-Russian effort.

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Elon Musk is under federal investigations, Twitter says in court filing

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Google approves Trump's Truth Social for Play Store

Alphabet Inc.'s Google has approved the former United States president Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social for distribution in the Google Play Store, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. 

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Meta unveils new virtual reality headset Quest Pro

A year after it rebranded itself in the name of building a metaverse, Meta on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its virtual reality headset tailored for working professionals.

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Google looks to raise its smartphone game with Pixel 7

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Researchers this week described one of these marriages gone wrong - a twosome that borders on the extreme, with the pair whirling around each other every 51 minutes in the fastest such orbital period known for a rare class of binary stars. As part of the drama, one star is eating its companion.

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Why crypto's big 'merge' is causing big headaches

The biggest software upgrade in the short history of crypto has fulfilled its promise to wipe out more than 99 percent of the electricity used by the second-biggest cryptocurrency.

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Swedish geneticist wins Nobel medicine prize for decoding ancient DNA

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Twitter Blue subscribers getting edit feature

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First images of asteroid strike from Webb, Hubble telescopes

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Tracing uncertainty: Google harnesses quantum mechanics at California lab

At Google's Quantum AI (artificial intelligence) laboratory, dozens of super-smart people labor in an office kitted out with climbing walls and electric bikes to shape the next generation of computers, a generation that will be unlike anything users currently have in their pockets or offices.

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Direct impact or nuclear weapons? How to save Earth from an asteroid

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NASA spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test

Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center outside Washington, DC, 10 months after DART was launched.

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After asteroid collision, Europe's Hera will probe 'crime scene'

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) aims to collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Monday night, hoping to slightly alter its trajectory -- the first time such an operation has been attempted.

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NASA gears up to deflect asteroid, in key test of planetary defense

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California last November and is fast approaching its target, which it will strike at roughly 14,000 miles per hour (23,000 kph).

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Neptune's delicate rings captured in new Webb image

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Major crypto trader Wintermute hit by $160 million hack, CEO says

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Apple to raise App Store prices in some countries in Europe, Asia

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Hackers breach website known for anti-trans campaigns

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Mars rover sees hints of past life in latest rock samples

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TikTok is serving up misinformation to users searching for news about politics, climate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and more, according to a report released on Wednesday.

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An international research team on Monday revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, leaving astronomers "blown away."

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NASA’s Moon mission pushed back, again

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Previously, the earliest known amputation involved a 7,000-year-old skeleton found in France, and experts believed such operations only emerged in settled agricultural societies.

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Ancient skeleton reveals surgical amputation 31,000 years ago

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Apple unveils new gadgets despite supply chain woes

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