KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: LIVE From KFF: Health Care and the 2024 Election
20 Oct
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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: LIVE From KFF: Health Care and the 2024 Election

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Health News tamfitronics Emmarie Huetteman: Please put your hands together and join me in welcoming our panel and our host, Julie Rovner.Julie Rovner: Hello, good morning, and welcome back to “What the Health?” I’m Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, and I’m joined by some of the very best and smartest health reporters in Washington, along with some very special guests today. We’re taping this special election episode on Thursday, October 17th, at 11:30 a.m., in front of a live audience at the Barbara Jordan Conference Center here at KFF in downtown D.C. Say hi, audience.As always, news happens fast and things might have changed by the time you hear this. So, here we go.So I am super lucky to work at and have worked at some pretty great places and with...
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NASA’s next-generation Nancy Roman Space Telescope aces crucial ‘spin test’
20 Oct
Science & Technology

NASA’s next-generation Nancy Roman Space Telescope aces crucial ‘spin test’

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NASA Space Technology This structure, called the Outer Barrel Assembly, will surround and protect NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from stray light that could interfere with its observations. In this photo, engineers prepare the assembly for testing.(Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel Assembly — through a rigorous "spin test" designed to evaluate its resilience against the intense gravitational forces it will encounter during launch. This test, a standard procedure in aerospace engineering, typically takes place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission.There is much anticipation around this next-generation telescope, which was named after Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer and "mother of the Hubble Space Telescope." It will have a field of view 100...
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Ground systems could delay Artemis 2 launch
20 Oct
Science & Technology

Ground systems could delay Artemis 2 launch

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NASA Space Technology The mobile launch platform that will be used for Artemis 2 was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building Oct. 3 after tests at Launch Complex 39B. Credit: NASA/Jamie PeerMILAN — Refurbishment of ground systems like a mobile launch platform could become another factor in the schedule for the Artemis 2 mission that NASA says is still planned for launch next September.A report by the Government Accountability Office Oct. 17 found that work on the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program, which includes the mobile launcher and other ground systems needed to support launches of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, could delay the Artemis 2 launch.“While EGS elements are close to completion, the program has no schedule margin for these remaining activities,” the GAO report stated. While issues with Orion led...
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NASA just found places where microbial Martians might be able to thrive
20 Oct
Science & Technology

NASA just found places where microbial Martians might be able to thrive

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NASA Space Technology Scientists believe conditions might be suitable for microbial life in pockets of meltwater formed by so-called cryoconite, dust particles that melt into ice, such as these holes found in Antarctica on Earth. Credit: Hassan Basagic / iStock / Getty Images PlusScientists have discovered small, potentially habitable areas on Mars where life could, in theory, transform sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into oxygen, according to a new NASA study.Though the research doesn't mean photosynthetic aliens are indeed living in these environments now — or even that they were there in the past — the findings provide the U.S. space agency with attractive targets for future searches.For years, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — a spacecraft circling the Red Planet — has seen white material lining dry gullies thought to be dusty water ice. This...
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