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NASA Boosts Funding for Commercial Space Stations
NASA has injected an additional $99.5 million into agreements with Blue Origin and Voyager Space, supporting the development of commercial space stations. The funds, allocated from NASA's Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations (CLD) program, aim to nurture alternatives to the International Space Station (ISS). Blue Origin's Orbital Reef project, in collaboration with Sierra Space, will receive an extra $42 million, focusing on subsystem design reviews and life support systems. Voyager Space, partnering with Airbus Defence and Space for the Starlab station, secured $57.5 million for development milestones and enhancing Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft.
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In a robust cinematic year, the French box office witnessed a remarkable 19% surge in 2023, accumulating an estimated €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) from a total of 181.2 million tickets, as reported by Comscore France. Diverging from the previous year's trend, where the top 1...
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Bitcoin commenced the New Year with a notable surge on Tuesday, surpassing the $45,000 mark for the first time since April 2022. The optimism revolves around the potential approval of exchange-traded spot bitcoin funds, marking a significant development for the world's largest...
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