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  • The Vatican said on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV had surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung after receiving a lung cancer diagnosis.
  • A Pennsylvania woman is accused of fatally stabbing her husband and 3-year-old son at a family resort in the Poconos before attempting suicide.
  • In support of the protesting high school students, tens of thousands of people gathered throughout France on Tuesday.

Tag: NASA

May 27, 2020

NASA Launch Marks New Era in...

When NASA’s Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, few thought it would take more than eight years for U.S. astronauts to launch back into orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But as VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, hopes ride high on a new “space race” of privately developed launch systems ushering in a new era of U.S. space exploration

February 29, 2020

NASA Prepares to Send New Rover...

NASA is preparing to send a new rover to Mars for a human exploration mission of the Red Planet

July 30, 2019

After Anniversary, NASA Aims Beyond Earth...

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing celebrated the crowning achievement in crewed space flight, but also reminded the public the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is not currently sending astronauts into space from the U.S

July 17, 2019

How ‘Rocket City’ Helped NASA Get...

In the race to the moon in the 1960s, the development of the large rockets that could thrust the spacecraft beyond Earth’s atmosphere became a critical element in the success of the Apollo program. The place where the Saturn V rocket was developed — Huntsville, Alabama

July 16, 2019

Apollo Mission Control Room Reopened To...

On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin set foot on the lunar surface – the first men on the moon. The U.S. space agency, NASA, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this historic event in style

July 5, 2019

Antarctic Sea Ice Plunges from Record...

The sea ice around Antarctica has plunged from a record high to a record low in just three years according to a new report released this week by the U.S, space agency NASA

April 19, 2019

NASA Launches Chicago Planetarium’s Student Project...

Data that sheds light on those circumstances is gathered by a small electronic device called “ThinSat” designed to orbit the Earth. It is developed not by high-paid engineers and software programmers, but by Chicago-area students like Guerra

April 17, 2019

Life in Space

Story of a NASA Autronaut

January 22, 2019

Study: Greenland’s Ice Melting Faster than...

Scientists say if all of Greenland’s vast ice sheet were to melt, global sea levels would rise by 7 meters (23 feet) , flooding most coastal developments around the world

January 3, 2019

2019 Heading Up to Be Big...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps on the moon, so it is fitting there are a number of exciting projects pushing us back into space

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