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US moon landing mission in jeopardy due to ‘critical loss’ of fuel

United Launch Alliance successfully launched its next generation Vulcan rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (via NASA) A U.S. lunar lander that launched from Florida on Monday in hopes of becoming the first American craft to touch down on the moon in more than 50 years is now suffering from […]

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Snow Hinders Rescues and Aid Deliveries to Isolated Communities After Japan Quakes Kill 128 People

WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — Rescue teams worked through snow to deliver supplies to isolated hamlets, six days after a powerful earthquake hit western Japan, killing at least 128 people. Heavy snowfall expected in Ishikawa Prefecture later Sunday and through the night added to the urgency. After Monday’s 7.6 magnitude temblor, 195 people were still unaccounted

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A Woman in Her 90s Is Rescued Alive 5 Days After Japan’s Deadly Earthquake

WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A woman in her 90s was pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan late Saturday, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling buildings and setting off landslides. The woman in Suzu city, Ishikawa Prefecture, had survived for more than five days

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WWII-Era Munitions Found Under Water in Survey of Southern California Industrial Waste Dump Site

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known offshore sites in April managed to identify munitions by using high-definition video that covered a limited portion of the sites, the Scripps Institution

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Death Toll Reaches 100 as Survivors Are Found in Homes Smashed by Western Japan Earthquakes

WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble. Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the day, but two more deaths were reported in Anamizu, while officials in Ishikawa prefecture, the hardest-hit region, held their

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Crib Videos Offer Clue to Mysterious Child Deaths, Showing Seizures Sometimes Play a Role

The last bedtime of 17-month-old Hayden Fell’s life was heartbreakingly normal. Crib video shows the toddler in pajamas playing happily as his parents and sister sang “Wheels on the Bus” with his twin brother. The next morning, Hayden’s dad couldn’t wake him. The tot had become one of several hundred seemingly healthy U.S. toddlers and

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Two Companies Will Attempt the First US Moon Landings Since the Apollo Missions a Half-Century Ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap. Now two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in the game, more than five decades after the Apollo program ended. It’s part of a NASA-supported effort to kick-start commercial

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Scenes of Loss Play Out Across Japan’s Western Coastline After Quake Kills 78, Dozens Still Missing

SUZU, Japan (AP) — His face hidden under a humble straw hat, the man stood silent, watching several helmeted rescue workers carefully lift his wife’s body from the rubble, wrapped in blue plastic on a stretcher. He wiped his weary face with a rag. His eyes were red. This scene in the city of Suzu

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UCLA to Turn Former Shopping Mall Into Centers for Research on Immunology and Quantum Science

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California, Los Angeles, will turn a sprawling former shopping mall into cutting-edge centers for immunology and quantum science research, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials announced Wednesday. The 700,000-square-foot (65,032-square-meter) former Westside Pavilion, located 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from the university’s Westwood campus, will be called UCLA Research

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SpaceX Launches First Satellites to Connect T-Mobile’s Customers

SpaceX has launched the first satellites with the capability to connect to smartphones on the ground, which will help expand coverage for T-Mobile customers. Contrast that against Apple’s existing Emergency SOS via Satellite service that uses Globalstar ground relay stations as a relay between iPhones and satellites. T-Mobile announced its partnership with SpaceX in August

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