NASA SpaceX Crew-12 Enters Isolation Ahead of Launch
02 Mar
Science & Technology

NASA SpaceX Crew-12 Enters Isolation Ahead of Launch

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The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for a crew portrait in their pressure suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Pilot and Commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Mission Specialist Sophie Adenot. Credit: SpaceXSpaceX Crew-12 is in quarantine as NASA prepares for its next journey to the space station. The four astronauts selected for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission have begun a standard two-week quarantine at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The isolation period started is part of routine preparations ahead of their upcoming launch to the International Space Station. Sophie, Jessica, Jack, and Andrei entered quarantine on January 28 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas,...
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Asian shares are mostly higher following a strong US jobs report
02 Mar
Science & Technology

Asian shares are mostly higher following a strong US jobs report

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday as the market punished companies seen as potential losers from artificial-intelligence technology. The S&P 500 sank 1.6% for its second-worst day since Thanksgiving, though it’s still near its all-time high set late last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 669 points, or 1.3%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 2%. AppLovin lost nearly a fifth of its value and tumbled 19.7%, even though it reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Like other software companies, it’s come under pressure from worries that AI may...
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Watch the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 mission dock with the ISS
02 Mar
Science & Technology

Watch the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 mission dock with the ISS

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The Crew-12 mission, SpaceX’s 20th human spaceflight, launched at 5:15 AM Eastern on February 13 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It’s expected to dock with the International Space Station today, February 14, at 3:15 PM, and you can watch the event below as it happens. By the time the mission’s Dragon capsule docks with the ISS, it will have traveled approximately 34 hours since lift off. Inside are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency’s Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The four spacefarers are joining the three remaining passengers onboard the ISS after Crew-11 flew back to Earth a month earlier than planned. If you’ll recall, NASA made the decision to cut their mission short after one of the crew members had a medical issue that instruments on the ISS aren’t...
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Polling was never a neutral force in American politics
02 Mar
Politics

Polling was never a neutral force in American politics

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There may well be a malign element to Gallup’s decision to stop presidential polling, but it was never an uncomplicated good.US President Donald Trump (Image: Sipa USA) Gallup, Inc., perhaps the world’s best-known polling firm, having achieved a kind of Band-Aid level association with the product it produces, last week announced that it will no longer track US presidential approval or the favourability of any political figure. It lands as a dark development, yet another example of institutions rewriting reality for the benefit of the increasingly authoritarian second administration of Donald Trump. The notion of regular polling on the level of approval apparently enjoyed by politicians, their parties and policies is now so core to how we consume politics that it’s easy to forget that the art is less than 100 years old.
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