Mayor London Breed shared more about the big news after arriving home from her recent trip to Beijing to see the animals.
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Pima Air and Space Museum will be home to one of the biggest flying boats ever built. The museum will be receiving a Martin Mars flying boat.
The older I get, the more my dying brain cements around the idea that fans invoke “small sample size” primarily when they don’t like the results. In a small sample size, Joey Bart is doing very nicely as a new member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who’ve come to play the San Francisco Giants this weekend in a 3-game series. He’s 7-for-23 with a trio of dingers, a double, and 8 RBI to go with 5 walks against just 8 strikeouts. That’s a triple slash of .304/.429/.739 in a measly 28 PA. Now, it’s not...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology The great commercial takeover of low-Earth orbit NASA designed the International Space Station to fly for 20 years. It has lasted six years longer than that, though it is showing its age, and…
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that China is happy to see a confident, open, prosperous and thriving United States and hopes the United States can also look at China's development in a positive light.
China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China atop a Long March 2-F rocket […]
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For the first time in decades, San Francisco will receive giant pandas from China as part of China's Panda Diplomacy program. Mayor Breed shared the news on X Thursday night.
NASA warned China is using its civilian exploration program as a cover for its military programs claiming territory on the moon. The US now is in a race to put Americans on the moon.
Bill Nelson told Capitol Hill lawmakers that China has been ‘very, very secretive’ about its space progress, warning ‘we are in a race’The head of Nasa has warned of China bolstering its space capabilities by using civilian programs to mask military objectives, cautioning that Washington must remain vigilant.“China has made extraordinary strides especially in the last 10 years, but they are very, very secretive,” Nasa administrator Bill Nelson told lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Continue reading
Our ozone is pennies thick – and soon we’ll put at least an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metallic ash into the ionosphere every yearA dead spacecraft the size of a truck ignites with plasma and pulverizes into dust and litter as it rips through the ionosphere and atmosphere. This is what happens to internet service satellites during re-entry. When the full mega-constellation of satellites is deployed in the 2030s, companies will do this every hour because satellite internet requires thousands of...