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In this frame grab from NASA TV, the SpaceX capsule splashes down Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020 in the Gulf of Mexico. Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken spent a little over two months on the International Space Station. It will mark the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts and the first time a private company has ferried people from orbit. (NASA TV via AP)
August 3, 2020, 12:24 am
SpaceX capsule with 2 NASA astronauts make first splashdown in 45 years
Flight by Elon Musk’s company was first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit, could clear the way for tourist flights from next year
By Marcia Dunn
In this image from video made available by NASA, astronauts Doug Hurley, left, and Bob Behnken prepare for undocking from the International Space Station, aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. (NASA via AP)
August 2, 2020, 6:56 am
SpaceX astronauts launch back toward Earth for final leg of historic journey
Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who blasted off toward space station 2 months ago, aim for Sunday afternoon splashdown off Florida coast, a first for manned spaceflight in 45 years
By AP
In this file photo illustration, a Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile phone on May 27, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)
July 19, 2020, 1:15 am
Twitter says hackers ‘manipulated’ employees to access accounts
‘We’re embarrassed, we’re disappointed, and more than anything, we’re sorry,’ says social media giant after high-profile breach
By AFP
Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US Vice President Joe Biden in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)
July 16, 2020, 3:20 am
Twitter accounts of Netanyahu, Biden, Obama, others hacked in Bitcoin scam
Fake tweets from prominent politicians, tech personalities solicit deposits to anonymous cryptocurrency account; feeds of Apple, Kanye West, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg also hacked
By Agencies
Screen capture from video of the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken aboard, as it docks with the International Space Station, May 31, 2020. (NASA TV via AP)
May 31, 2020, 6:42 pm
Making history, SpaceX Dragon docks at space station with two-man crew
Elon Musk’s privately engineered manned space flight delivers astronauts to orbiting research center, completing complex hitching of capsule to station automatically
By Marcia Dunn
A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 30, 2020 (AP Photo/John Raoux)
May 31, 2020, 12:46 am
SpaceX blasts off on historic crewed launch, opening commercial space travel era
Elon Musk’s company becomes first private organization to take humans to orbit, ending nine-year launch drought for NASA since retirement of the space shuttle
By Marcia Dunn
Clouds pass over the SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, as it sits on Launch Pad 39-A, May 27, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
May 27, 2020, 11:32 pm
Historic SpaceX launch postponed because of stormy weather
Flight, pushed to Saturday, will be first to send humans into orbit by private company, first launch of astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade
By Marcia Dunn
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal prior to the Demo-2 mission launch on May 23, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
May 27, 2020, 9:14 pm
2 US astronauts suit up for historic SpaceX launch
Wednesday’s planned flight will be the first time a private company has sent humans into orbit, first launch of astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade
By Marcia Dunn
US President Donald Trump after a meeting with restaurant industry executives about the coronavirus response, in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 19, 2020, 8:40 am
Trump retweets video by conservative shunned for her support of Holocaust denier
President shares clip of right-wing activist Michelle Malkin complaining conservatives are silenced on social media; Twitter later removes original tweet
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: A procession of Starlink satellites crossing the night sky. (YouTube screen capture)
May 3, 2020, 9:50 am
Israelis wonder at mysterious, fast-moving lights in the sky
When a procession of bright orbs crossed the country’s skies Wednesday evening, Israel’s Air Force and Space Agency were called in to investigate
By TOI staff
This image from video provided by SpaceX shows the company's spacesuit in Elon Musk's red Tesla sports car which was launched into space during the first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018. (SpaceX via AP)
May 1, 2020, 2:39 am
Musk, Bezos win lunar lander contracts as NASA aims to return humans to moon
US space agency awards SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics almost $1 billion in deals to develop competing systems set to be tested in February 2021
By AFP
Founder of Alibaba group Jack Ma arrives at the Tech for Good summit in Paris, May 15, 2019. (AP/Thibault Camus, File)
March 20, 2020, 9:20 am
World tech leaders step into coronavirus fray with donations, digital tools
Alibaba head Jack Ma vows to donate vast supplies of medical equipment to US, every country in Africa; Zuckerberg says Facebook to provide users with ‘authoritative information’
By Luke Tress and Agencies
Israeli startup Cortica says it has developed an AI-based technology that allows cars and computers to see and understand their surroundings by mimicking the function of the brain of mammals (Courtesy).
April 21, 2019, 5:42 pm
Israel’s Cortica seeks to nip at Mobileye’s heels with brain-mimicking tech
Tel Aviv-based startup hopes to see ‘massive deployment’ of its chips for self-driving cars on the road by 2021
By Shoshanna Solomon
Yariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a digital time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018. (Yoav Weiss)
February 18, 2019, 4:38 pm
With sights set on the moon, Israel to launch privately funded spacecraft Friday
Beresheet set to touch down in the Sea of Tranquility on April 11; $100 million project, paid for mostly by Jewish donors, would make Israel 4th country to land a craft on the moon
By Melanie Lidman
Opher Doron, general manager of Israel Aerospace Industries' space division, speaks beside the SpaceIL lunar module, in a special "clean room" where the space craft is being developed, during a press tour of their facility near Tel Aviv, Israel, July 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Ilan Ben Zion)
October 10, 2018, 9:30 pm
Israel’s maiden moon launch pushed off to early 2019
SpaceIL says unmanned probe blasting off a month later than planned, blames Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm for setback
By AFP
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