Month: May 2020
Workers Around The World Are Already Being Monitored By Digital Contact Tracing Apps
Paresh Dave / Reuters The Care19 mobile app, which the governors of North Dakota and South Dakota have asked residents to download. REUTERS/Paresh Dave Imagine you arrive at work. Before you’re allowed to clock in, you have to complete a quiz on your phone that asks if you have any…
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Meet the cute stuffed dinosaur that hitched a ride on SpaceX’s historic launch
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley had some company on their historic flight to space today: a stuffed dinosaur tucked into one of the seats on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. The toy was spotted during preparations for launch on Wednesday and Saturday, and geophysicist Mika McKinnon quickly identified it on Twitter…
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SpaceX makes history with successful first human space launch
SpaceX made history today, flying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to space aboard its Crew Dragon spacecraft using a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch, titled ‘Demo-2’, is for the final demonstration mission in the human rating process of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9, meaning that once this…
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SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight
After nearly two decades of effort, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched its first two people into orbit, ushering in a new age of human spaceflight in the United States. The flight marked the first time astronauts have launched into orbit from American soil in nearly a decade, and…
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How to watch SpaceX launch – liftoff live stream happening now
SpaceX is ‘go for launch’ and the reusable rocket has landed: The first-ever SpaceX launch with NASA astronauts has just happened and the reusable rocket has come back down to Earth. We have the live stream video going below via YouTube. Tune in now. How the watch the SpaceX launch…
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SpaceX’s historic launch attempt succeeds on its second attempt
A new era of American spaceflight began Saturday as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket broke through Earth’s upper atmosphere carrying veteran astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley atop a pillar of flame. This marks both the first time that a commercial… Source
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