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Solar Storm

Solar Orbiter Sets Off for Mission to Study the Sun

On Sunday at 11:03 p.m. EST, the European Space Agency and NASA successfully launched their joint Solar Orbiter mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with the spacecraft catching a ride aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. During its mission, the Solar Orbiter will get up…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Drones

NASA budget proposal soars to $25B, with half that for moon and Mars campaign

NASA is aiming for the moon and Mars. NASA The White House has unveiled its NASA budget proposal for fiscal 2021, aiming to fund the space agency with $25.2 billion for the year. About half of that amount, or nearly $13 billion, would go to programs leading toward crewed missions…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Homeless

Gammons: On the complicated Mookie Betts trade, and what comes next in Boston

Former Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski is expected to stay in Naples, Fla. this spring, a half-hour from the Red Sox spring training facility. Several people associated with the Red Sox live there, and in March the streets are lined with New Englanders. It might be tempting…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Blockchain

In Technology, Entrepreneurs Must Take the Biggest Shots to Make the Biggest Gains

Here's how "moonshot thinking" can transform entrepreneurship - and three areas it could benefit the most. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Image credit: Heritage Images | Getty Images Mark Minevich Guest Writer…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Body Shaming

Katie Maloney-Schwartz’s Vanderpump Rules Costars Defend Her After Oscars Body-Shaming

Katie Maloney-Schwartz’s Vanderpump Rules family has got her back. The cast of the hit Bravo series came to Maloney-Schwartz’s defense on Sunday after she was criticized on social media for her choice of attire at E!’s pre-Oscars brunch telecast. Brittany Cartwright shared an Instagram photo from the outing of the VPR cast, which…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Nukes

Trump’s Defense Budget Proposal Focuses on Nukes, Research

The annual budget request favors research over older planes, and speeds work into refreshing the nuclear triad. President Donald Trump on Monday submitted to Congress a $740 billion national security budget request heavy on investment in updating the nation's nuclear arsenal and providing a substantial boost to research and development,…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

SpaceX

The first crewed SpaceX flight could happen around May 7th

Working date for SpaceX's Demo-2 launch is May 7. Dragon is in good shape.Launch date is fluid and mission may move into late April, or push later into May depending on a number of variables not hardware related. No final decision yet on duration.— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) February 10, 2020It's…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Flygskam

Air Travel’s Bid to Go Green Could Get Pricier Thanks to Virus

Add carbon markets to the list of things being disrupted by China’s deadly coronavirus. A United Nations-backed program designed to rein in emissions from international air travel is at risk of being distorted as governments from the U.S. to Russia impose …

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Moon Mission

Trump seeks more NASA funding for moon mission

The Trump administration is requesting $25.2 billion for NASA in fiscal 2021, a 12% increase that includes $3.3 billion to kickstart development of a human-rated lander for the Artemis moon program. Nearly half of the budget request, $12.3 billion, is devoted…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Free Internet

Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible

This is the Ostrom Memorial Lecture I gave on 9 October of last year for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. Here is the video. (The intro starts at 8 minutes in, and my part starts just after 11 minutes in.) I usually speak off the cuff, but this time…

bubmagFebruary 10, 2020

Solar Orbiter Sets Off for Mission to Study the Sun

NASA budget proposal soars to $25B, with half that for moon and Mars campaign

Gammons: On the complicated Mookie Betts trade, and what comes next in Boston

In Technology, Entrepreneurs Must Take the Biggest Shots to Make the Biggest Gains

Katie Maloney-Schwartz’s Vanderpump Rules Costars Defend Her After Oscars Body-Shaming

Trump’s Defense Budget Proposal Focuses on Nukes, Research

The first crewed SpaceX flight could happen around May 7th

Air Travel’s Bid to Go Green Could Get Pricier Thanks to Virus

Trump seeks more NASA funding for moon mission

Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible

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