Report analyzes long history of NASA support for commercial space

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25 Years Ago: STS-103, The Hubble Servicing Mission-3A

 “Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990. The third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, placed in orbit in 1990, occurred during the STS-103 mission in December 1999. During the mission, originally planned for JuneContinue Reading

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The platform believes social factors like age, income, and education influence buyers’ decisions over home layouts., (NewsNation) — A new tech startup, Oyssey, is launching an app that lets homebuyers view potential neighbors’ political affiliations based on election results and campaign contributions, according to The Guardian. Launching this month inContinue Reading

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A sizeable update to the free, open-source video editor Kdenlive is now available to download. Kdenlive 24.12 arrives stuffed like a seasonal bird with bug fixes, performance tweaks, and usability enhancements. Additionally, the editor’s developers have removed support for Qt5 so that, as of this release, it is entirely Qt6.Continue Reading

Electric vehicle transition could create unwanted air pollution hotspots in China and India

New research has uncovered a potential unintended consequence of the electric vehicle transition in India and China, finding that sulfur dioxide emissions could actually increase over current levels if the countries were to fully onshore their electric vehicle supply chains. The overwhelming majority of those emissions would come from refining and manufacturing nickel and cobaltContinue Reading