Category: News
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight
Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT).…
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Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight
Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT). …
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As Artemis Moves Forward, NASA Picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander
NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface. At least one of those astronauts…
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Was Oumuamua a Part of an ExoPlanet (video)
Do you remember ‘Oumuamua? That strange interstellar object that travelled through our solar system back in 2017. The object sparked many theories of what it was and it’s origins. It was something akin to a odd, shaped comet with strange icy contents from another galaxy. Or that it was a derelict spacecraft made by…
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Small Asteroid to pass Very Close
A small asteroid will pass extremely close to Earth on Monday, April 12, 2021. Designated 2021 GW4, it will pass just 12,313 miles from Earth’s surface, which is about 5% of the distance between the Earth and the moon. Amateur astronomers using telescopes can see it shortly before closest approach passing the galaxy Messier…
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) rotorcraft is expected to take off from Mars’ Jezero Crater Sunday, April 11, at 12:30 p.m. local Mars solar time (10:54 p.m. EDT, 7:54…
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FORD MOTOR COMPANY ISSUES SAFETY COMPLIANCE RECALL
DEARBORN, Mich., April 2, 2021 – Ford Motor Company is issuing a safety compliance recall related to the rearview camera on select 2020-21 Lincoln Aviator vehicles. The image processing module may be intermittently unable to provide a video feed to the display screen. This could result in a loss of the rearview camera image when the…
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FDA is Investigating Reports of Infections Associated with Reprocessed Urological Endoscopes
Agency is taking action to remind health care providers about the proper way to clean certain devices for reuse Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is investigating numerous medical device reports (MDRs) describing patient infections and other possible contamination issues associated with reprocessing urological endoscopes, including cystoscopes, ureteroscopes and cystourethroscopes—devices used to view…
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FDA Continues to Advance Over-the Counter and Other Screening Test Development
Following recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration actions to support test development, the FDA took swift action this week to get more tests for screening asymptomatic individuals on the market. Today, the agency authorized several tests for over-the-counter (OTC) use without a prescription when used for serial screening. In addition to the tests authorized for…
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AMTRAK RESTORES 12 LONG DISTANCE ROUTES TO DAILY SERVICE
Slated to debut this summer, new schedules offer the most departures since June 2020 WASHINGTON – As part of its COVID-19 recovery efforts, Amtrak announces full restoration of daily service for 12 long distance routes following pandemic-related schedule reductions in 2020. Providing customers significantly more departures for the upcoming summer travel season, the new…