In one of the biggest setbacks to the Islamic State (or the ISIS) in recent times, more than 250 fighters who had pledged allegiance to the organization and were fighting the Iraqi army were killed in an U.S. airstrike ...U.S. Military officials have confirmed that the airstrikes were carried out targeting fleeing ISIS fighters ... Another official added; ... We have embedded a few tweets below. Note that these reports have not been verified yet....
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump addressed a cheering partisan audience at an Ohio rally Wednesday and repeated his call for the return of waterboarding against Islamic State militants saying, “What do you think of waterboarding?. He then responded to his own question saying “I like it a lot.” ... The NewYork real estate tycoon lamented the U.S ... to close its borders to Muslim arrivals....
The Senate passed the bill to assist debt stricken Puerto Rico with a 68-30 vote, three weeks after the House backed the measure and two days before the island is to make a $2 billion payment to creditors according to The Associated Press. Obama has stated that he will sign the legislation quickly once Congress sent it his way ...U.S ... The legislation is set to create a board which would overlook the U.S ... - WN.com, Maureen Foody....
Egyptian aviation investigators confirmed a black box recording from EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo that plunged into the Mediterranean on May 19 and killed all 66 people aboard showed smoke onboard, BBCNews reported Wednesday. Automated electronic messages sent by the plane had shown that smoke detectors went off in a toilet and in the avionics area below the cockpit, minutes before the plane disappeared....
The last few years haven’t been good for North Korea as crippling sanctions and isolationism have caused the rogue country to turn inward and continue showing the world the country is doing fine.But now North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has put his soldier-builders to work on yet another major project — a series of apartments and high-rises that are once again changing the Pyongyang skyline, The Associated Press reported Wednesday....
CAPE CANAVERAL. NASA’s fireworks came early this year with a successful rocket test in Utah... NASA plans to use the mega-rocket for trips to Mars in the 2030s ... “Really a delight,” he said ... The post Booster rocket fires in key NASA test for Marsmissions appeared first on The Himalayan Times. ....
NASA’s fireworks came early this year with a successful rocket test in Utah. On Tuesday, NASA fired a booster intended to hoist astronauts into true outer space. The ground test lasted the full two minutes, and the early word is that everything went well. NASA plans to use the mega-rocket for trips to Mars in appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....
Source. Youtube.com/NASA's Marshall CentreOn Tuesday, NASA fired a booster intended to hoist astronauts into true outer space. The ground test lasted the full two minutes, and the early word is that everything went well.NASA... ....
The InternationalSpace Station (ISS) has become the first piece of a Solar System-wide Internet network. Thanks to a piece of technology called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), future Moon and Marsmissions will be able to link up to the ISS and beam information efficiently back and forth. One day, when Martian settlers are engaging in a bit of Netflix binge-watching, they’ll have DTN to thank ... How DTN works ... ....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from a 12-year-old Michigan girl with cerebral palsy who wasn't allowed to bring her service dog to school. The justices said Tuesday they will consider whether Ehlena Fry's family can sue the school district for violations of federal disability laws ... ___ ... Booster rocket fires in key NASA test for Marsmissions Injuries reported in head-on train collision in TexasOfficer ... ....
Pending approval of a mission extension, NASA's CuriosityMars rover will continue to climb to progressively higher and younger strata on Mount Sharp, investigating how long the ancient, water-rich environments found so far persisted as Mars dried out ... NASA's most ambitious Marsmission to date, its goal was to study the Martian environment and determine if Mars is, or was, suitable for life ... http.//mars.nasa.gov/msl/....
By and large, the meeting focused on possible concepts for the Marsmission, which included using SEP and chemical propellants for sending hardware to cis-lunar space and near-Mars space, in advance of a mission to Phobos and the Martian surface... For instance, NASA has indicated that it is laying the groundwork for Phase One of the Marsmission, which calls for flight testing to cis-lunar space....
(Source. University of Science and Technology of China) ... The next mission, due this year, is to launch the HardX-Ray Modulated Telescope, which uses an innovative technique to build up highresolution images of events in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars ... China has also planned the launch of five new space science satellites, including a Sino-European joint mission, in the next five years, apart from a Marsmission in 2020....
The rocket carries the highest ever number of satellites on a single Indianmission and the third highest in history ...India's mission to Mars ... In 2013, the ISRO sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars at a cost of just $73 million, compared with American space agency NASA's MavenMarsmission that had a $671 million price tag. The successful mission was ......
India has successfully sent 20 satellites into space in a single mission, a record-breaking event for the country’s space agency that received its premier’s warm praise ...Back in 2013, it also sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars on a low budget of just $73 million, compared with NASA’s $671 million MavenMarsmission....
The rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota carrying satellites from the US, Germany, Canada and Indonesia, the most in a single Indianmission... The highest number of satellites launched in a single mission is 37, a record that Russia set in 2014 ... India in 2013 sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars at a cost of just $73 million, compared with NASA's MavenMarsmission which had a $671 million price tag....