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Biden takes charge of a divided America Conducting his campaign largely virtually from the confines of his Delaware basement, Joe Biden promised voters a return to the staid ‘normality’ that characterized Washington, DC in the pre-Trump era. While Biden’s message won out, his inauguration in January did little to heal …

Two scientists have suggested there is a very real possibility the first space colonists may turn to cannibalism, noting that failures in crops and a lack of supplies may leave people with very few choices. Speaking with the Metro on Sunday, Charles Cockell, a professor of astrobiology at Edinburgh University, …

Elon Musk has rejected complaints that SpaceX Starlink satellites are taking up too much room in Earth’s orbit. Separately, Musk is under fire from Beijing for two near-misses between these satellites and China’s space station. “Space is just extremely enormous, and satellites are very tiny,” Musk told the Financial Times …

An Ariane 5 heavy rocket with NASA’s 7-ton observatory in the cargo bay blasted off from the European Space Agency’s launch base in French Guiana at 7:30am EST (12:30 GMT). Everything went to plan and less than a half an hour later the French-made booster released the state-of-the-art instrument – …

The study, titled MicroAge, will see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deliver the cells to the International Space Station (ISS) to explore what happens to human muscles, how people age and why. The cells, the size of a grain of rice, have been grown in labs and placed into small …

The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the trio performed a soft touchdown on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 9:13am (3:13am GMT), three hours after undocking from the ISS. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his producer Yozo Hirano, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin experienced a standard 4g acceleration load during the routine landing, …

The Jeff Bezos-founded venture’s ‘New Shepard’ spacecraft – named after the first American astronaut to reach space – lifted off from the company’s launch site in Texas.  The crew capsule reached an altitude of about 350,000 feet (106 km) before a parachute-assisted descent and landing on the desert floor. The …

Perhaps the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their acolytes knew exactly what they were buying when they allegedly supported Biden for president of the United States and tacitly paid his son Hunter for services rendered.  Over the weekend the top US general warned that China could surpass America in the …

The three officers were asked to leave ‘Hilda and Jesse’ on Friday – a restaurant located on San Francisco’s upmarket Union Street – with the owners alleging its staff “felt uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons” after seating the officers. “Our restaurant is a safe space – particularly …

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Moscow’s Roscosmos space agency said that a fragment of the Falcon 9 rocket, launched by Elon Musk’s California-based company in 2019, will come into close proximity with the orbital base within the next two days. “On November 25 at 07:18 Moscow time, a fragment …