The move could raise tens of billions of dollars for SpaceX, but there's more than money at stakethe future of space exploration hangs in the balance, too. SpaceX is integral to numerous critical missions with both NASA and the Pentagon, including ferrying crew and cargo to the International Space Station, placing satellites in orbit and being key to NASA's plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2028.
For me, it is a presence. A nudge. A gentle hand slowly turning my chin towards the windows, where their white trunks reach skywards and their golden leaves glow in the three-sun dawn. I find myself pressing my fingers to the tempered glass when I'm supposed to be conducting experiments or tidying up the mess hall. My feet work their way into the airlock without conscious reason.
On Nov. 16,1988, Benazir Bhutto was voted prime minister of Pakistan, the first woman elected to lead a Muslim-majority country. Also on this date: In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union. In 1914, the newly created Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities. In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of an 800-mile (1,290-kilometer) oil pipeline from the Alaska North Slope to the port city of Valdez.
has become the default setting for anyone who wants a piece of the Nasdaq's biggest names. Over the past decade, a bet on the QQQ has paid off handsomely. The Nasdaq has trounced the S&P 500 and almost every other ETF in that period. Year-to-date, the QQQ is up a staggering 23% as AI-related names continue to climb. Nevertheless, you should remember that the Nasdaq's performance is not due to all the stocks in the index rising in parallel.
In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also known as the Ship of Gold) sank off the coast of South Carolina after sailing into a hurricane in one of the worst maritime disasters in American history; 425 people were killed and thousands of pounds of gold sank with the ship to the bottom of the ocean. In 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern France.
'You don't have to have training, but it just makes you more likely to have the requirements,' Laude explained. 'It could be a student, some psychology student wanting to do projects on human factors. That's not uncommon at all. There's been high school students there before.'
"Finding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting. It highlights the remarkable diversity of exoplanetary systems and strengthens the case for studying potentially habitable worlds around low-mass stars."
India's successful moon landing in August 2023 marked its entry into an elite group of countries capable of lunar exploration, symbolizing cultural significance alongside scientific achievement.
These are miniature monuments to human ambition, cast in crystal-clear resin and hand-painted with the kind of reverence usually reserved for museum dioramas.
