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A NASA Scientific Balloon Program annual campaign is getting ready to take flight at the agency’s balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Six balloon flights carrying scientific experiments, technology demonstrations, and student payloads are scheduled to launch starting in mid-August.  NASA’s high-altitude scientific balloon being prepared for launch at Fort Sumner,Continue Reading

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Eric Gore Manager, Exploration Ground Systems Program Eric Gore is the program manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program (EGS) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this role, Gore leads the program responsible for developing, operating, and sustaining the ground infrastructure and systems that process, integrate, andContinue Reading

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Progressives experienced a split in two closely watched Democratic primaries Tuesday, as voters in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced sharply different results in contests that represented competing visions for the party’s future. In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan decisively won the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, defeating U.S. Rep. Angie Craig by roughly 20 percentageContinue Reading

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This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media. This Saturday, at their summer meeting in Austin, Texas, members of the Democratic National Committee will likely get a chance to vote on whether the party should ban the use of ranked choice voting (RCV) in selecting its presidential nominee in 2028.Continue Reading

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CÚCUTA, Colombia — Between 1964 and the signing of the Havana Accords in 2016, fighting among the Colombian military, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas killed more than 450,000 people. That war, which involved relatively cohesive ideological sides, is beginning again, this time with players that more closely resemble those ofContinue Reading

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This still from a Virgin Galactic video shows the company’s new “Delta class” suborbital space plane. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic) Virgin Galactic’s next customers will have to wait a bit longer to get off the ground. The suborbital space tourism company hasn’t been to the final frontier since June 2024. It had been targeting lateContinue Reading