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Three Chinese astronauts were stuck in space. Here’s why it keeps happening.

Three Chinese astronauts were stuck aboard the Tiangong space station this month when their return craft sustained damage. They eventually made it home on the vehicle that brought up their replacements - leaving the next trio of astronauts in the same predicament. They are far from alone: Russian and U.S. spacefarers have also been delayed in space in recent years, for months at a time.
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Blue Origin eyes 2nd New Glenn launch with Mars-bound NASA satellites

Blue Origin’s heavy lift New Glenn became the first commercial rocket to make it to orbit on its first try back in January. Jeff Bezos’ company is looking to repeat the feat while also nailing a return landing of its booster, something that didn’t come to fruition the first go-around.
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University of Minnesota researchers launch smoke-sensing drones that one day could fight wildfires

Plumes of smoke drifted up from a fire steadily taking over a 30-acre prairie at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, north of the Twin Cities. Amid the haze, five black drones zipped around. More than 150 feet below the flying robots, research student Nikil Krishnakumar raised the controller in the air. “It’s all autonomous now,” he said. “I’m not doing anything.” The aerial robotic team’s ...
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Two more Florida corals are ‘functionally extinct’ after 2023 heatwave

MIAMI — The marine heatwave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything Florida has seen in 150 years, and claimed at least two victims — species of corals now marked "functionally extinct" from Florida’s reefs. That finding comes from a newly published scientific paper that reads more like an obituary for two of the most visible and important coral species on Florida’s reefs: ...