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• Astronauts launched an extraordinarily complicated series of spacewalks Friday to fix a cosmic ray detector at the International Space Station.
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• NASA astronauts launching to the International Space Station from Florida may have to wait until at least next summer for rides to the station, according to a new report by the agency’s Inspector General.
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• There have been 221 spacewalks at the International Space Station and 37 have included women. But overall, there have only been 15 female spacewalkers. Retired NASA astronaut Nicole Stott is one of them and we chat with her about the historic milestone and what that means for gender equality in the astronaut corps.
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• SpaceX and a rival company are rushing ahead with plans for constellations of thousands of satellites, but regulators might not be ready.
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• SpaceX is set to launch a fleet of mini-satellites Monday from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch happening on Veterans Day highlights the role veterans play in the growing aerospace industry.
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• The planet Mercury will appear to cross the sun’s surface Monday, an event that will not occur again until 2032.
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• It’s been nine months since the end of a 35-day federal shutdown–the longest in American history–and more than a million federal contractors have still not received their missed pay.
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