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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

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A grainy sonar image reignites excitement and...
January 31, 2024
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane vanished during her flight around the world in 1937? Numerous expeditions have turned up nothing, only confirming that swaths of ocean floor held no trace of her twin-tailed monoplane. Tony Romeo now believes his new South Carolina-based sea exploration company captured an outline of the iconic...

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D-backs add slugger Joc Pederson, who is...
January 30, 2024
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PHOENIX (AP) — Joc Pederson watched the Arizona Diamondbacks’ surprise run to the World Series last fall and didn’t see a whole lot of luck. Instead, he witnessed a fascinating mix of skill, youth and chaos. He liked it so much he wanted to join in. Pederson and the National League champion D-backs finalized a $9.5 million, one-year contract on Tuesday that includes a mutual option for 2025. The sides agreed to financial terms last week. “They’ve always done...

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N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and...
January 29, 2024
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NEW YORK (AP) — N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel “House Made of Dawn” is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89. Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced. He had been in failing health. “Scott was an extraordinary person and an extraordinary poet and writer. He was a singular voice in American literature, and...

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Ukraine says it has no evidence for...
January 27, 2024
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials in Ukraine said Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that Ukrainian forces shot down a military transport plane that Moscow says was carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs. The Ukrainian agency that deals with prisoner exchanges said late Friday that Russian officials had “with great delay” provided it with a list of the 65 Ukrainians who Moscow said had died in the plane...

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Lyon makes 30 saves in 3rd career...
January 26, 2024
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DETROIT (AP) — Alex Lyon made 30 saves for his third career shutout, Andrew Copp scored his 100th goal and the Detroit Red Wings silenced the slumping Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 on Thursday night. Dylan Larkin and Moritz Seider also scored during Detroit’s three-goal second period as the Red Wings bounced back from a 5-4 loss to Dallas at home Tuesday. “We knew we screwed up the Dallas game and we had to be better tonight,” Seider said. “They had...

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Works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction receive...
January 24, 2024
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NEW YORK (AP) — A poetry collection, a coming-of-age novel and a history of deep sea exploration are unlikely to be found in the same section of your favorite bookstore. But they all have enough in common to be this year’s winners of Science + Literature awards, $10,000 prizes administered by the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The two foundations announced Wednesday that poet Arthur Sze’s “The Glass Constellation,” Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s novel “Digging Stars”...

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Cooper scores 20 as South Carolina runs...
January 24, 2024
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Lamont Paris thought about what he would say if told a year ago during his 21-loss first season that his Gamecocks would follow with 16 wins, including a double-digit victory over No. 6 Kentucky. “I’d probably say, ‘Where are we ranked?’” Paris said before cracking a smile. “I’m just kidding.” It might not be too long before he finds out after his surprising turnaround season continued with a 79-62 victory over the...

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Cooper scores 20 as South Carolina runs...
January 24, 2024
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Lamont Paris thought about what he would say if told a year ago during his 21-loss first season that his Gamecocks would follow with 16 wins, including a double-digit victory over No. 6 Kentucky. “I’d probably say, ‘Where are we ranked?’” Paris said before cracking a smile. “I’m just kidding.” It might not be too long before he finds out after his surprising turnaround season continued with a 79-62 victory over the...

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Gangly adolescent giraffe Benito has arrived at...
January 23, 2024
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Benito the giraffe walks out from his enclosure at the city-run Central Park zoo prior to his transfer to a new habitat, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. After a campaign by environmentalists, Benito left Mexico’s northern border and its extreme weather conditions Sunday night and headed for a conservation park in central Mexico, where the climate is more akin to his natural habitat and already a home to other giraffes. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)(AP/Christian Chavez) Benito the...

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Horvat scores in OT as Islanders beat...
January 22, 2024
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bo Horvat scored 41 seconds into overtime and the New York Islanders beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 Sunday night to win new coach Patrick Roy’s debut. Alexander Romanov and Hudson Fasching also scored for New York and defenseman Noah Dobson had two assists. Ilya Sorokin finished with 41 saves. Roy, who went 130-92-24 in three seasons coaching Colorado from 2013-16, was hired on Saturday to replace Lane Lambert after the Islanders went 0-3-1 on a...

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A Russian private jet carrying 6 people...
January 21, 2024
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Russian private jet carrying six people crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan but the pilot and some of the others on board survived, the Taliban said Sunday. The crash happened Saturday in a mountainous area in Badakhshan province, regional spokesman Zabihullah Amiri said, adding that a rescue team was dispatched to the area. The province is some 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. It is a rural, mountainous area, home...

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Lightning storm past Sabres for 5th consecutive...
January 21, 2024
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Nicholas Paul and Tyler Motte scored 52 seconds apart in the first period and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on Saturday for their fifth consecutive victory. Brandon Hagel had two assists, and Paul added an assist when defenseman Calvin de Haan scored into the empty net late in the third period. Jonas Johansson, a former Sabres player now backing up Andrei Vasilevskiy with the Lightning, made 27 saves in the opener...

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Now eyeing a longer haul, the US...
January 19, 2024
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ON BOARD THE USS BATAAN (AP) — When attacks with missiles and drones surged in the Red Sea late last year, crewmembers of the USS Bataan worked round the clock to make sure they were shot down before reaching passing merchant vessels. Weeks later, they are still perfecting that operation in training and simulations, along with a dozen other scenarios, despite moving north to the Mediterranean where commercial marine traffic is at little risk. The U.S. Navy is reshuffling...

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Japan space agency says its lunar spacecraft...
January 19, 2024
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said early Saturday that its unmanned spacecraft is on the moon, but is still “checking its status.” More details will be given at a news conference that is expected shortly. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, came down onto the lunar surface at around 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time (1520 GMT). THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. TOKYO (AP) — As Japan’s space agency prepares for its...

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