SpaceX and NASA officially flew people into space. What’s next?
The Crew-1 crew. From left to right, NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. (SpaceX/) On April 12, 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from the Florida coast. NASA dubbed the flight Space Transportation System-1, or STS-1 for short, and it marked the first of 135 space […]
US officially becomes only nation to leave the Paris Climate Agreement
As of today (Nov. 4), the U.S. will officially leave the Paris Climate Agreement, a nonbinding pact between nearly 190 nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb climate change. The Trump administration began the formal process of exiting the Agreement on this day last year by filing the necessary paperwork to the United Nations, […]
