5 Of The Most Expensive NASA Space Missions In History

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Tada Images/Shutterstock NASA has long captured the imagination of humanity with its ambitions. We reached the moon, built space stations, placed telescopes in orbit, and unlocked the secrets of the universe with NASA’s guidance. These achievements serve science, education, and inspire others, often yielding technologies that benefit life on Earth. At the same time, fundingContinue Reading

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Taiwanese companies continue to supply precision industrial machines for factories that fuel Russia’s war machine, in defiance of sanctions, according to an investigation by Ukrainian watchdog organization StateWatch.  Precision tools process high-strength alloys used in the production of artillery barrels, missile bodies and drones. Russia imports at least 70% ofContinue Reading

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With the City Council in Bessemer scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacles for the wildly unpopular project. By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion BESSEMER, Ala.—When Yale biologist Thomas Near and members of his researchContinue Reading