Space
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Real Estate
$950,000 Homes in California
A Craftsman-style cottage in Los Angeles, a three-bedroom apartment in San Francisco and a midcentury ranch in Novato.
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Real Estate
Want to Make Music at Home? Start With Soundproofing.
During the lockdown, musicians were desperate to start jamming again, and even record music at home, without driving their families and their neighbors crazy.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and on Staten Island
This week’s properties are in Greenwich Village, the Financial District and St. George.
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Politics
Russian Spacewalk Is Canceled Due to Coolant Leak
When mission controllers observed white particles spewing from a spacecraft that serves as a “lifeboat” for the International Space Station, they scrapped the mission.
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Real Estate
$880,000 Homes in Georgia, Massachusetts and Oregon
An 1886 rowhouse in Savannah, a 19th-century home in Rockport and a Victorian in Lake Oswego.
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Politics
50 Years After the Apollo 17 Mission, the Moon Looks Closer Than Ever
Fifty years ago today, two men woke up on humanity’s last day on the moon. Nobody would be back to the moon anytime soon. Plans for additional Apollo missions had been scrapped two years earlier, in 1970. A few minutes ahead of their scheduled wake ...
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World
Your Tuesday Briefing: China’s Space Push
Plus China’s vaccination pivot and the year’s most stylish “people.”
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World
A Timeline of China’s Advancements in Spaceflight
July 19, 1964 China successfully launches its first biological experiment to the edge of space: a rocket carrying eight white mice. ⬇ April 24, 1970 China launches its first satellite, which broadcasts the patriotic anthem “The East is Red” as it ...
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Politics
China Maps Out Plans to Put Astronauts on the Moon and on Mars
JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER — Thirty years ago, the Chinese government initiated a secret plan for its space program, including a key goal of building a space station by 2020. At the time, the country was 11 years from sending its first astronaut ...
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Politics
Why Some Scientists Choose China’s Space Station for Research
A project led by researchers from a Swiss university highlights China’s ambition to make the Tiangong outpost broadly available for science.