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NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could bring scientific experiments to the moon with a lower budget than the agency.Last year, it was a bad bet. The first spatial vehicle financed by NASA completely missed the moon. The second has landed but has fallen.But this month, a robotic lander named Blue Ghost, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, in Texas, managed from start to finish.On March 16, the mood to the Firefly mission operations outside Austin was a mix of happy and melancholy. There was nothing else to worry about, nothing to do, except looking at the company's spatial vehicle to die.At a quarter of a million miles away, the sun had already placed itself on the mare crisis, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for two...

The rockets were fired from Lebanon in Israel for the first time in months of Saturday, pushing the Israeli forces to go back to the southern Lebanon sites after hours, according to which they were linked to the Hezbollah militant group.At least six people in Lebanon were killed in the Israeli bombing and other injured, according to the declarations of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. The Israeli army said she launched a second cycle of attacks on Saturday evening.The attacks were the last example of how the renewed Israeli offensive to Gaza was rippling through the Middle East. They also risk further interrupting the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents on both sides of the border that had fled more than a year of fi...

Perhaps the most lasting public moment for Mrs. Dukakis during the campaign was a matter of debate placed on her. The Moderator of the debate, Bernard Shaw of the CNN, had asked Mr. Dukakis: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis had been raped and assassinated, would you prefer an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?""No, no, Bernard," replied Dukakis without emotion before reaffirming his opposition to the death penalty and discuss his record on crime. The analysts called the response tone, one of the worst in the history of the presidential debate, and said they had contributed to sinking the chances of Mr. Dukakis against his opponent, the vice -president George HW Bush, who continued to win 40 states and the presidency.Kitty Dukakis was embarrassed, he later told journalists. The scandalous...

When it comes to tackling global conflicts, President Trump is a man in a hurry.Even before his inauguration, the president claimed the merit of what he called a "ceased the epic fire" in Gaza. He ran to convince Ukraine and Russia to quickly embrace a break in the fighting. And with Iran, Trump wants an agreement within two months to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.It is the version of foreign policy of the "Flood The Zone" approach of the President to Washington, where he and his lieutenants used Blitzkrieg similar tactics to dismantle the bureaucracy, consolidate executive power and attack his political enemies. Also on the world phase, Trump embraced a haste foreign policy approach designed to quickly resolve the disputes he inherited.But his diplomatic impatience is no...

Il 4 marzo, un incaricato di Trump presso il Dipartimento degli Affari dei Veterani ha diffuso un promemoria per la leadership senior. L'agenzia, ha affermato, "si sarebbe trasferita in modo aggressivo" per migliorare l'efficienza, con un "obiettivo iniziale" di tagliare la forza lavoro ai livelli del 2019.La mattina dopo, qualcuno ha pubblicato una copia di questo promemoria di "riduzione in vigore" a un gruppo Reddit chiamato VeteransAffairs, una comunità online di 19.000 membri. La copia era difficile da seguire, una sequenza di foto scattate sul memo su uno schermo, ma il messaggio era abbastanza chiaro: circa 80.000 posti di lavoro sarebbero stati tagliati.Domande e commenti si sono riversati, alcuni sconcertati, alcuni frenetici. L'agenzia aveva mezzo milione di dipendenti in ospedal...

If it were not obvious that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Israel believes he has an ally in his battle against the country's attorney general, his judges and even the head of his home security service, clarified on Wednesday evening."In America and Israel, when a strong right -wing leader wins the elections, the Deep State on the left wears the judicial system to counter the will of the people," he wrote in a post on social media. "They don't win in either of the two places! We are strong together."The Defiant, Trumpian Blast was the last proof of the fact that Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are managing the same playbook book to achieve surprisingly similar goals: to neutral the judiciary, dismantle a supervision system that puts a check on their authority and discredit the prof...

The Food and Drug Administration declared on Thursday that it would delay 30 months as a requirement that food companies and the expense quickly trace the food contaminated through the supply chain and pulled it from the shelves.Tested to "limit the disease and the death of food origin", the rule asked for companies and individuals to keep better records to identify where they were grown, packed, elaborate or buildings. It was intended to enter into force in January 2026 as part of a reference food safety law in 2011 and was advanced during the first term of President Trump.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health, expressed interest in chemical safety in food, moving to ban food dyes and on Thursday by debuting a public database in which people can trace toxins in food. But other ac...

When Dr. Shoo Lee, one of the most famous neonatologists in Canada, wrote an academic document in 1989, would never have imagined that one day he would help to condemn a British murder nurse.But more than three decades after the publication of his document, this is what happened.Lucy Letby, a former nurse in a neonatal unit in northern England, was judged guilty in two processes in 2023 and 2024 of the murder or attempted the murder of 14 children in her care and sentenced to life imprisonment, where she remains today.The case shook Great Britain, seeming to exhibit a timeless serial killer who, said the ministries, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill its tiny, often premature, victims: by injecting them with air, enduring them with milk or contaminating their feed with insulin.For ...

Elon Musk said last month that the Federal Government was engaged in "absolutely crazy" activities, supporting without evidence that he had distributed $ 100 billion to people without social security numbers.Two days after the comments of Mr. Musk, one of his key lieutenants, Steve Davis, started pressing the administration of social security for information. Davis defined the leaders of the agency to insist that he offers a young engineer from the so -called Department of Musk government efficiency at database that contained sensitive information on the Americans.Davis's question was "unprecedented", Tiffany Flick, a former social security official, said in a sworn declaration this month for a cause intended by federal employees who tried to block access to data. He added that Mr. Davis c...

Nowruz, the Persian New Year, began on Thursday, kicking off a celebration of life, renewal and rebirth that people in Iran and beyond have observed for many generations.More than 300 million people all over the world celebrate Nowruz, which means "New Day" in Persian. Many of them say goodbye saying "Nowruzie Pirooz" or "wishing you a victorious Nowruz!"The holiday, which is linked to the spring equinox, traces its roots to the Persian empire. People in the Balkans, in the Black Sea basin, in the Caucasus, in Central Asia and the Middle East celebrated it for more than 3,000 years.There is an accumulation for Nowruz, said Alireza Hedayati, president of the Iranian American Society in New York, a non -profit organization based on Long Island.Things begin to warm up "as soon as he begins to...