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NJ Transit taps Super Bowl lessons to move MetLife crowds for 2026 World Cup

My Central Jersey 26 Mar 2025
What was dubbed the first “Mass Transit Super Bowl” turned into a day of notoriety as NJ Transit’s shuttle system between Secaucus Junction and MetLife was inundated with more than double the number of fans originally expected to use the rail link.
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NASA Drops Promise to Land "First Woman, Person of Color" on the Moon

Futurism 26 Mar 2025
... it's been particularly intense at NASA — possibly because that agency used to be considered a pioneer in diverse hiring, dating back to the launch of the Space Shuttle program in the late 1970s.
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Human space flight exhibition to touchdown soon at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

Pressat 25 Mar 2025
... the lunar surface, low-Earth orbit and outer space, from NASA’s Apollo missions and the Soviet space era, to the American and Russian space shuttle programmes, International Space Station and SpaceX.
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NASA puts biggest rocket pieces together for Artemis II moon mission

The Spokesman-Review 25 Mar 2025
The slow race of getting NASA’s Space ... Together the core stage’s four RS-25 engines, converted from the Space Shuttle Program, and the two boosters provide 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.
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I Revisited Armageddon, And I Owe One Specific Character A Huge Apology

Cinema Blend 25 Mar 2025
My recollection of the movie had Sharp going crazy and being confined to a seat on the space shuttle instead of Rockhound, who came down with a serious case of “space dementia” and tried to sabotage the whole mission.
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China’s spacesuit prove their durability in Tiangong’s extravehicular missions

Interesting Engineering 24 Mar 2025
This spacewalk surpassed the previous world record of 8 hours and 56 minutes, held by NASA astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms from a 2001 space shuttle Discovery mission to the ISS. .
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Olivia Wilde brings her son Otis to LA's California Science Center in rare sighting | ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
The 41-year-old Independent Spirit Award-winning filmmaker treated little Otis - who turns 11 on April 23 - to the $92.99 'Space Shuttle' bomber jacket in the museum gift shop.
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NASA Website Ditches Promise to Put First Woman and Person of Color on the Moon

Houston Press 24 Mar 2025
In fact, NASA didn’t send a woman to space at all until Sally Ride’s historic flight on the Challenger space shuttle in 1983, with Guion Buiford becoming the first Black astronaut aboard the Challenger later that same year.
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Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights

York News-Times 23 Mar 2025
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren't the first to run late in space, and their 9½-month mission on the International Space Station falls short of any endurance record ... 9 aboard the International Space Station.
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The historical figures who inspired Nvidia's product names, from Grace Hopper to David Blackwell

Business Insider 23 Mar 2025
The names of Nvidia's AI chips frequently take inspiration from pioneering figures in math and science. Patrick T ... Hopper. Blackwell. Rubin ... UC Berkeley ... Feynman was later part of the committee that investigated the Challenger space shuttle explosion ... ....
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Letters to the editor for Sunday, March 23, 2025

News-Press - Fort Myers 23 Mar 2025
Letters to the editor should be 250 words or less ... His brother, dropped into 5th grade not speaking a word of English and years behind in his education, became an engineer, working in the Space Program from Mercury through the Space Shuttle ... Rep ... Why?!.
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What's next for the Boeing Starliner? NASA still views it as 'an important vehicle'

Florida Today 21 Mar 2025
... the Shuttle Program ... Upon the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA needed a way to transport astronauts to and from the ISS and asked private companies to submit proposals on how to do so.
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10 Disaster Movies That Are Thrilling From Start to Finish

Collider 21 Mar 2025
... with a single iceberg hitting a boat or damaging a space shuttle.
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From Spacewalks To The Deepest Abyss: We Chat To Astronaut Kathy Sullivan, The Only Person To Do Both

IFL Science 21 Mar 2025
There was the same kind of suspense and apprehension about this [compared to launch into space] ... You may recall in 1998, NASA took John Glenn, a very famous early American astronaut, on a space shuttle flight ... Dr Sullivan on board the Space Shuttle.
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