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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

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Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, commander of the maiden Polaris Dawn voyage on the SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft, arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 19, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
December 5, 2024, 8:46 am
Trump taps Jewish billionaire Jared Isaacman to head NASA
Entrepreneur has been to space multiple times and conducted the first private spacewalk in September
By PHILISSA CRAMER
NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, November 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
October 17, 2024, 8:24 pm
From Negev to Mars: Inhayle wins startup program to shoot for NASA-led space mission
Israeli developer of air and surface disinfection tech wins grant from space accelerator program that helps place it in the Artemis program to land astronauts on the moon and Mars
By Sharon Wrobel
NASA Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze, left, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot, and DART program scientist Tom Statler speak during a media briefing about the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), at NASA headquarters on October 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 4, 2024, 12:57 pm
A scientist helps save the world from asteroids. What would the Midrash say?
Addressing Boston’s Vilna Shul as part of its Lifesavers Speaker Series, Dr. Nancy Chabot shows how collaboration in the emerging field of planetary defense proves a rabbinic adage
By Rich Tenorio
Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, commander of the maiden Polaris Dawn voyage on the SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft, arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 19, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
September 10, 2024, 2:46 pm
Billionaire to conduct private spacewalk with Musk’s SpaceX
Tech mogul Jared Isaacman, commanding 4-person Polaris Dawn mission, will become first non-professional astronaut to perform complex mission; won’t say how much he paid for it
By Marcia Dunn
The empty Boeing Starliner capsule sits at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Sept. 6, 2024, after undocking from the International Space Station. (Boeing via AP)
September 7, 2024, 12:36 pm
2 astronauts left behind in space as Boeing capsule deemed unsafe returns to Earth empty
After thruster failures and helium leaks, Boeing insisted extensive testing showed Starliner was safe, but NASA disagreed and booked February flight with SpaceX instead
By Marcia Dunn
In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP)
August 24, 2024, 9:41 pm
NASA says SpaceX to retrieve two astronauts because of risks with Boeing capsule
Having entered orbit for what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams now set to return to Earth only in February
By Marcia Dunn
The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
May 11, 2024, 7:57 am
Intense solar storm causes spectacular northern lights displays across the globe
Auroras seen in skies of US, north Europe and Australasia as result of most powerful solar storm in over 20 years; changes to Earth’s magnetic field could cause power disruptions
By Issam Ahmed
A total solar eclipse is seen from Arlington, Texas, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
April 9, 2024, 7:56 am
Clouds part just in time for most of North America to watch total solar eclipse
Some 200 million people living in or near the shadow’s path, plus scores of out-of-towners, flock to see over 4 minutes of out-of-sync darkness as moon totally covers sun
By Marcia Dunn
An amateur astronomer prepares her telescope a day before a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
April 8, 2024, 8:51 am
Huge crowds await total solar eclipse in North America, but clouds may spoil view
The best weather is expected at the tail end of the eclipse in Vermont and Maine; It will be another 21 years before the US sees another total solar eclipse on this scale
By Marcia Dunn
A dreidel spins in zero gravity in front of a makeshift menorah aboard the International Space Station in a video shared by NASA Astronaut Jasmine Moghbeli on December 8, 2023. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 10, 2023, 6:20 pm
Astronaut celebrates Hanukkah with zero-gravity dreidel spin
Jasmin Moghbeli finds creative way to mark the Jewish Festival of Lights while aboard the International Space Station
By ToI Staff
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin landed in Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA)
September 28, 2023, 7:42 pm
Three astronauts return to Earth after stuck over a year in space
American Frank Rubio sets NASA record, with trio stuck aboard the ISS for 191 days more than intended due to damaged return capsule
By ToI Staff
In this image from video provided by NASA, technicians in a clean room examine the sample return capsule from NASA's Osiris-Rex mission after it landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020. (NASA via AP)
September 26, 2023, 3:04 am
NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space, 4.5 billion years old, land on Earth
Samples taken to lab for careful examination after release from spacecraft at conclusion of seven-year journey
By Marcia Dunn
Workers on scaffolding repaint the NASA logo near the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
September 14, 2023, 11:37 pm
NASA report says more science, less stigma needed to understand UFOs
Officials stress that study found no evidence unidentified anomalous phenomena have extraterrestrial origin, but US space agency administrator admits another Earth could exist
By Marcia Dunn
An artist's illustration of K2-18 b, an exoplanet which may be covered in water oceans and possess a hydrogen atmosphere. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))
September 12, 2023, 10:36 pm
NASA says hint of oceans, potential life discovered on distant world
Molecule only produced on Earth by life may be present on exoplanet 120 light years away, along with molecules suggesting presence of water
By Michael Horovitz
File: The Air France Concorde F-BTSD-registered aircraft, in 1978. (AP Photo/Air France)
August 28, 2023, 6:58 pm
NASA explores development of supersonic passenger jet
Space agency grants contracts to develop concepts for airliner that could make New York-London flight in about 90 minutes
By Michael Horovitz
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