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SpaceX said Wednesday that 82-year-old American businessman and the world’s first space tourist Dennis Tito and his wife, Akiko, will be on the company’s second commercial spaceflight around the moon on its Starship rocket. Tito, a wealthy engineer, was 60 years old in 2001 when he made history by becoming the first private citizen to go to space, aboard the Russian rocket Soyuz TM-32. The Titos are the first crew members to be announced for Starship’s second commercial spaceflight around the moon, SpaceX said in atweetWednesday....

After multiple delays, the next flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon is just hours away. The Florida weather and a minor medical issue have played havoc with launch day. It can be tough to keep up with all the delays, but don’t worry. We’ve got you covered with the launch right here. The earliest the launch window will open now is6:03 p.m. PT (9:03 p.m. ET) onWednesday, Nov. 10.Backup launch windows open at 5:40 on Nov....

Add four more names to the short list of human beings who’ve traveled beyond the edge of Earth. “The door’s open now, and it’s pretty incredible,” he said. Shortly after, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rodehisrocket a little further. Whether they made it to “space,” though, has been hotly debated. Most space watchers agree these short suborbital trips aren’t quite the same as getting into low Earth orbit. There will be no debate about the Inspiration4 mission....

Next year, the company plans to have 64 satellites in orbit, then 256 satellites in 2025. That’ll be enough to enable text message conversations, the company said. Sateliot is not alone in its ambition to use data links that hop across the heavens. Your phone will simply connect to its satellites through carrier partnerships. Although the company’s longer-term plan is to help consumers, that’s not where it’s starting. It’s signed three deals worth a total of about $1....

NASA is delaying a cargo flight to the International Space Station out of an abundance of caution over the SpaceX Dragon possibly breathing fire from the wrong place. The space agency had hoped to launch the capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday, but as propellant was being loaded into the Dragon’s Draco thruster system ahead of time “elevated vapor readings of mono-methyl hydrazine (MMH)” were detected,according to a NASA statementlate Monday....

According to Musk, SpaceX has to wait for the nextEarth-Mars launch windowbefore sending the missions. If the uncrewed ships land safely on Mars, Musk anticipates sending crewed missions during the 2028-29 launch window. SpaceX has yet to land the Starship, its biggest ever vehicle, on solid ground. On its latest mission in June it landed the craft for the first time in the Indian Ocean. SpaceX PresidentGwynne Shotwell echoed those claims two yearsago in an interview with CNBC....

Who even needs a home any more? If you live in a van and work online, then this is pretty awesome. Folks who live in vans, aka #vanlifers, are pretty independent. Alistair Berg / Getty Images TurnerofOff Highway Vantold Lifewire via email. Cavan Images / Getty Images The advantages of Starlink are pretty clear. Users say it is faster and offers lower latency than other satellite internet options. Cavan Images / Getty Images...

Each raised millions of dollars, respectively, via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. What are SPACs? As such, SPACs can be seen as a faster, more efficient path to going public. How do SPACs work? This unit includes one share of common stock and a warrant to purchase more stock at a later date. The funding raised is put into a trust while the SPAC finds a target company to merge with....

Here’s what you gotta know about the PSP, along with its full technical specifications. Sony ended hardware production of the PSP in 2014. It’s still one of the nicest looking, though, with a sleek, rounded industrial design aesthetic. “MiNe-M_100-2635U” (CC BY 2.0) byMiNe (sfmine79) There was also a Memory Stick slot for a Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo. Each firmware update supported more audio, graphics, and video formats, expanding the possibilities....

After days ofbrutal wildfiresthat have burned tens of thousands of acres in Los Angeles and turned thousands of homes to ash, internet service provider Spectrum is unlocking a number of its Wi-Fi hotspots for anyone to use. They don’t require a login or account creation – just look for the Wi-Fi name on your rig and click in. Spectrum, a regional ISP under Charter Communications, opened up over 35,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in the Los Angeles area for public use....

Trolling with a purpose. Your sarcastic love guru is here. But once you actually watch it you start to understand that its all a comedy and its all deliberate. Kyootbot Her middle-class upbringing was accentuated by the iron grip of her conservative, controlling father. The one place she could be free was online. All my friends playedMaple Story. Kyootbot All two of them. I had a bunch ofMaple Storyboyfriends because I would pretend I was a teenager…...

There’s a childlike joy to running flat out to get to someplace exciting. That’s the sort of modeNASA’sPerseverance Mars rover is in right now. Perseverance is heading to an enthralling river delta region and it’s going at breakneck speed. The now-dry crater has an intriguing history of water. The delta is of particular interest as a spot that could provide insights into the planet’s past habitability. Percy is trying to find out if Mars ever hosted ancient microbial life....

Delete all the junk files you could find. Instructions in this article apply to Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7. Freeing your setup of these unnecessary items opens up storage for your important things and helps with overall performance. ipopba / Getty Images Remove unwanted programsthat are just lingering on your machine. There are severalfree program uninstaller appsthat make doing this really easy. Also considered junk files are anything you simply don’t use or want anymore....