Cosmonaut removed from SpaceX’s Crew 12 mission for violating national security rules: report

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) A Russian spaceflyer was pulled from SpaceX’s next astronaut mission for violating U.S. national security regulations, according to a media report. Oleg Artemyev, of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos , had been manifested on SpaceX’s Crew 12, a four-person mission scheduled to launch toward the International Space StationContinue Reading

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Ever since the United States Air Force stood up its first aerial refueling squadron in 1948, the technique of filling up fighter gas tanks on the fly has become an integral component of a US Armed Forces strategy for airpower. The advent of jet-powered fighters made it more necessary thanContinue Reading

Electric vehicle prowess helps China’s flying car sector take off

A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese factory trialling the mass production of flying cars. The lightweight six-propeller aircraft under construction take off vertically and fit into a large car, to create the “Land Aircraft Carrier” — a modular flying vehicleContinue Reading