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NASA astronaut who suffered medical incident on ISS speaks out for first time
The space agency identified the astronaut as Mike Fincke, who was part of the four-person Crew-11 mission that also consisted of NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.
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NASA eyes March 6 for Artemis II lunar mission after successful dress rehearsal
The final results of Thursday's rehearsal still need to come in before the mission is approved, but if given the go-ahead, NASA will launch astronauts around the moon for the first time since the Apollo program ended over 50 years ago.
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Obama appears to walk back comments on aliens
His clarification followed comments he made to podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen over the weekend
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SpaceX launches crew members to International Space Station on 8-month mission
The Falcon 9 launched on course for docking Saturday around 3:15 p.m.
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Doctors continue to warn about Big Pharma's influence on medical journals, publish alternative
It’s not only what the journals publish – it’s also what they refuse to publish that matters, warns Dr. Joseph Varon, a critical care specialist and president of the Independent Medical Alliance.
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Musk says SpaceX to focus on building self-growing city on moon first, then Mars
The Musk-owned SpaceX is a private enterprise, compared to the the federal agency NASA, which has for decades led the United States' space exploration program.
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Industry built on idea of longer life with tech like cryonics now focuses on cancer, transplants
Cryonics is the process of preserving a legally deceased person's body at extremely low temperatures using liquid nitrogen.
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Watchdog claims Biden-era DoD grants are going to research using human fetus parts in animal tests
The watchdog White Coat Waste (WCW) found that the Defense grants are being used to fund experiments that implant parts of aborted human fetuses, including fingers and scalps, into lab animals.
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US, Japan scientists win Nobel medicine prize for immune system research discoveries
The winners are Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell from the U.S., and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan
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New research suggests Saturn moon is habitable
Researchers looked back at old data and found fascinating results
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Sports medicine doctors support female athletes, state bans on males in girls' sports at SCOTUS
Physiology of sex regardless of hormone interventions makes it practically impossible for females to match males, and nature of athletic injuries particularly threatens females, physicians say. Human rights advocates support females.
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Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97
Lovell was part of a total of four space missions: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.
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SpaceX rocket experiences 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' during test flight
The latest disassembly marked the third time that a SpaceX rocket exploded during test flights. The first incident occurred in January, and the second occurred in March, which saw the rocket disassemble just minutes after take-off.