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	Science Daily update ⋅ May 5, 2021
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	Space.com US spaceflight at 60: A lot has changed since NASA's 1st crewed mission Space.com It was 60 years ago today that the United States' first spaceflyer urged nervous flight controllers to ''fix your little problem and light this candle" to send him into space. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard successfully completed a 15-minute, 28-second mission on ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com SpaceX's Star Wars Day launch puts 60 Starlink satellites in orbit, lands rocket Space.com The 229-foot-tall (70 meters) rocket is named after the Millennium Falcon — the iconic ship in the "Star Wars" franchise piloted by Han Solo. It's payload? A full stack of 60 flat-paneled broadband satellites called Starlink. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Private Dream Chaser space plane to land on NASA's former shuttle runway Space.com After a decade-long lull, a famous Florida runway will soon start hosting space-plane landings again. The private Dream Chaser space plane will touch down at the Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) to wrap up its cargo missions to the International Space ... Flag as irrelevant
	Spaceflight Now Starlink launch marks 100 missions since an in-flight Falcon rocket failure Spaceflight Now The oldest Falcon 9 booster in SpaceX's operational rocket fleet sent 60 more Starlink internet satellites into space Tuesday with a launch from historic pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With the 60 satellites launched ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post 60 years since 1st American in space: Tourists lining up Washington Post CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company is finally opening ticket sales for short hops from Texas ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Parker Solar Probe detects a radio signal from Venus' atmosphere CNN The NASA spacecraft flew by Venus last summer and detected a natural radio signal from Earth's twin. This signal revealed that the probe actually passed through the upper atmosphere of Venus, collecting the first direct measurement of it in almost 30 years. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN 'Oddball supernova' reveals star's death throes before exploding CNN This artist's illustration shows the orbits of two stars and an invisible black hole 1,000 light-years from Earth. This system includes one star (small orbit seen in blue) orbiting a newly discovered black hole (orbit in red), as well as a third star in a wider orbit (also ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Hobbits and other early humans not 'destructive agents' of extinction, scientists find Livescience.com But widespread extinction on islands can largely be traced back to the past 11,700 years during the Holocene epoch, when modern humans began wreaking havoc there — overhunting, altering habitats and introducing invasive species, the researchers found. Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations Phys.Org A universe evolves over billions upon billions of years, but researchers have developed a way to create a complex simulated universe in less than a day. The technique, published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, brings ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org 60 years since 1st American in space: Tourists lining up Phys.Org In this May 5, 1961 file photo, astronaut Alan Shepard sits in his capsule at Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space flight, making Shepard the first American in space. (AP Photo). Flag as irrelevant
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