Facebook Tweet Email Link It would seem Mariah Carey is just a bit spacey, since the diva extraordinaire missed some pretty big news recently in the worlds of both pop culture and science. During a new interview for BBC Radio’s “Scott Mills Breakfast Show,” Carey was asked if she would “fancy” going into space like fellow music superstar Katy Perry. …
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Yesterday was a really big deal for drone delivery junkies. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled a rule the drone industry has been waiting on for over a decade. It’s called “BVLOS,” or beyond visual line of sight. Right now, you’re not allowed to fly a drone without a human watching the drone for the duration of its flight (there are …
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United Airlines has halted flights at major airports across the US over a “technology issue”, according to the company. A ground stop was issued for the company’s mainline flights from departure airports, causing issues at airports including Chicago, Denver, Houston, San Francisco and New Jersey, the US Federal Aviation Administration’s website shows. “We expect additional flight delays this evening as …
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A new expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will bring famous locations from Jurassic World and Jurassic Park to the popular flying game. And yes, those locations will be inhabited by dinosaurs. Finally, I can fly a 747 above the heads of dangerous dinos like the T. rex and Velociraptor. I just have to first, uh, learn how to fly …
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A United Airlines flight bound for Germany declared “mayday, mayday, mayday” with an engine failure last month, forcing the jet to hastily retreat to Washington, D.C., tower recordings and the carrier said on Monday. The pilot of Flight 108, headed to Munich on July 25, declared that his left engine had failed and he was “declaring an emergency, mayday, mayday, …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 NASA is conducting tests on advanced supersonic parachutes equipped with innovative sensors to improve Mars missions. 📡 The EPIC team successfully deployed a sensor-equipped parachute using a drone, providing crucial data for future tests. 🔧 Collaboration between NASA’s research centers led to the development of commercially available sensors for these parachutes. 🤝 Potential partnerships with the …
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SpaceX just fired up its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight. The company conducted a “static fire” trial with the 171-foot-tall (52 meters) Starship upper stage at its Starbase site in South Texas on Thursday, briefly igniting one of the vehicle’s six Raptor engines. “Starship single-engine static fire demonstrating …
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SpaceX launched its eleventh operational astronaut mission for NASA today (Aug. 1), sending the four Crew-11 astronauts on a flight toward the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 GMT) today. Atop the rocket was the company’s Crew Dragon Endeavour …
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A Delta Air Lines plane lands at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport on Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) We’re following a developing story out of Minneapolis, where a Delta Air Lines flight was diverted so 25 people could be treated for injuries due to severe turbulence that the Airbus A330-900 encountered midflight. Here’s what we know so far: …
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