Astronaut Jonny Kim leaves NASA, will return to active military duty

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Former NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim services an experimental carbon dioxide removal device aboard the International Space Station in May 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JSC) Jonny Kim is leaving NASA to continue his military career. The 42-year-old astronaut, who has one of the most jaw-dropping resumes of any person alive, is departingContinue Reading

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Notice anything different about me? I didn’t actually get taller while writing my new memoir. But I hope the stories I share (especially the stories about failure) will help us tackle our biggest problems and grow into a better nation. COMING UP SHORT out now in paperback. https://bit.ly/46nwUCcContinue Reading

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Trishuli in Nepal after a lake formed by a landslide on the Nepal-China border overflows, putting areas devastated by a flash flood two days ago at risk and forcing a temporary halt to rescue efforts, authorities on both sides said. Residents in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, on the border with China’sContinue Reading

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The devastating Bhotekoshi flood struck the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday morning., At least 469 people have died, and at least 1,500 people remain missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a glacial collapse sent a mountain of mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic floodingContinue Reading

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If you’ve installed Chromium or Google Chrome as a Flatpak, you’ve installed an unofficial, community-maintained package done independently of the search giant – that could be about to change. Chromium’s build system is now able to generate Flatpak packages of the browser itself, though its developers caution that the changeContinue Reading