Space
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Newyork
A Cafe for Cat People Opens Downtown
At Meow Parlour, people will be able to drink coffee and play with cats, and in some cases adopt them.
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Books
A Dance Through Dusty Time: The Choreographic Bite of Beth Gill
In “Nail Biter,” a New York City premiere, this exacting choreographer explores her ballet roots and how to be in her body now.
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US
Biden Takes Aim at SpaceX’s Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace
President Biden wants companies that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes into a federal fund that finances the work of air traffic controllers.
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World
As Threats in Space Mount, U.S. Lags in Protecting Key Services
The United States and China are locked in a new race, in space and on Earth, over a fundamental resource: time itself. And the United States is losing. Global positioning satellites serve as clocks in the sky, and their signals have become ...
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Science
SpaceX Blazes Forward With Latest Starship Launch
The third try turned out to be closer to the charm for Elon Musk and SpaceX, as company’s mammoth Starship rocket launched on Thursday and traveled about halfway around the Earth before it was lost as it re-entered the atmosphere. The test flight ...
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Newyork
A New York Loft Where the Art Comes First
IN THE 1960S and ’70s, clearing out and refinishing a downtown loft was a rite of passage for New York artists, who were drawn by cheap rent and ample studio space to the postindustrial buildings of SoHo and TriBeCa. Today, of course, those same ...
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Newyork
Richard Truly, 86, Dies; Shuttle Astronaut Who Went On to Lead NASA
In 1983, he commanded a Challenger shuttle flight. After the 1986 disaster, he was charged with leading NASA’s return to space.
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Science
Atom Bombs in Space Are Back to Scare Us Again
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin may find that a nuclear weapon in orbit is less useful for war than intimidation.
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Science
Why It’s So Challenging to Land Upright on the Moon
Two spacecraft have ended up askew on the lunar surface this year. It is easier to tip over in the weaker gravity on the moon than you may imagine.
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Books
‘Spaceman’ Has an Identity Crisis. So Do Plenty of Sci-Fi Space Movies.
With the release of Adam Sandler’s odd, middling and expensive new Netflix film, a look at space movie misfires of the past and how history repeats itself.