🚀 Boeing crew capsule launches to space station
Boeing’s crew capsule rocketed into orbit Thursday on a repeat test flight without astronauts, after years of being grounded by flaws that could have doomed the spacecraft. Only a test dummy was aboard.
If the capsule reaches the International Space Station on Friday and everything else goes well, two or three NASA test pilots could strap in by the end of this year or early next for the company’s first crew flight. It’s Boeing’s third shot at the high-stakes flight demo.
Starliner’s first test flight in 2019 was stricken by software errors so severe that the capsule ended up in the wrong orbit and had to skip the space station. The drawn-out test flight program has cost Boeing approximately $600 million.
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Boeing’s crew capsule rocketed into orbit Thursday on a repeat test flight without astronauts, after years of being grounded by flaws that could have doomed the spacecraft. Only a test dummy was aboard.
If the capsule reaches the International Space Station on Friday and everything else goes well, two or three NASA test pilots could strap in by the end of this year or early next for the company’s first crew flight. It’s Boeing’s third shot at the high-stakes flight demo.
Starliner’s first test flight in 2019 was stricken by software errors so severe that the capsule ended up in the wrong orbit and had to skip the space station. The drawn-out test flight program has cost Boeing approximately $600 million.
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🗣 Pentagon spokesman John Kirby moving to the White House
Defense Department press secretary John Kirby will move to the White House in a senior communications role with the National Security Council. In the new role, he will "coordinate interagency efforts to explain United States policy and will serve as a senior administration voice on related matters," the White House said in a statement.
He will not regularly do White House briefings, according to the current plan, but will supplement White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the podium when needed.
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Defense Department press secretary John Kirby will move to the White House in a senior communications role with the National Security Council. In the new role, he will "coordinate interagency efforts to explain United States policy and will serve as a senior administration voice on related matters," the White House said in a statement.
He will not regularly do White House briefings, according to the current plan, but will supplement White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the podium when needed.
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⚖️ Giuliani Meets With US House Jan. 6 Committee
Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021.
Despite Giuliani backing out of the original deposition, the two sides continued to negotiate an appearance, which led to a virtual appearance Friday that lasted for more than nine hours, sources said.
More than 900 people, including many Trump White House aides, have been interviewed in the committee's investigation.
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Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021.
Despite Giuliani backing out of the original deposition, the two sides continued to negotiate an appearance, which led to a virtual appearance Friday that lasted for more than nine hours, sources said.
More than 900 people, including many Trump White House aides, have been interviewed in the committee's investigation.
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⚡️Russia's Gazprom completely halts gas deliveries to Finland's Gasum due to non-payment
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⚡️ MoD: Russia uses Kalibr missiles to destroy big batch of weapons delivered to Ukraine from EU and US
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📹 The All-Russia People's Front together with Russian Railways have sent 2.4 thousand tonnes of humanitarian aid to Donbass
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❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed a large batch of weapons and military equipment being delivered from the USA and European countries to a group of Ukrainian troops near the Malin railway station in Zhytomir Region using high-precision, long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles.
▪️ Air-based Russian missiles have destroyed fuel storage intended for the Ukrainian nationalists' armoured vehicles near Odessa.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 4 command posts, 47 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 1 ammunition depot near Drobyshevo.
▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down another Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 aircraft near Novoaleksandrovka, Kherson Region.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 77 command posts and 602 areas of AFU troop and military equipment concentration, including 1 training camp for AFU special operations forces with personnel near Lake Sasik in Odessa Region, 43 artillery and mortar units at firing positions, 2 MLRS Grad batteries, 10 ammunition depots and 1 Buk-M1 anti-aircraft system launcher near Mayaki in Kharkov Region.
▪️ Some 174 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 966 unmanned aerial vehicles, 315 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,182 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 402 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,614 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,054 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed a large batch of weapons and military equipment being delivered from the USA and European countries to a group of Ukrainian troops near the Malin railway station in Zhytomir Region using high-precision, long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles.
▪️ Air-based Russian missiles have destroyed fuel storage intended for the Ukrainian nationalists' armoured vehicles near Odessa.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 4 command posts, 47 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 1 ammunition depot near Drobyshevo.
▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down another Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 aircraft near Novoaleksandrovka, Kherson Region.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 77 command posts and 602 areas of AFU troop and military equipment concentration, including 1 training camp for AFU special operations forces with personnel near Lake Sasik in Odessa Region, 43 artillery and mortar units at firing positions, 2 MLRS Grad batteries, 10 ammunition depots and 1 Buk-M1 anti-aircraft system launcher near Mayaki in Kharkov Region.
▪️ Some 174 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 966 unmanned aerial vehicles, 315 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,182 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 402 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,614 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,054 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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📹 Ukrainian radicals continue to fire at civilians in Donetsk. As a result of an artillery attack on the Oktyabrsky settlement, one civilian was killed and several residential buildings were damaged.
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📹 "After eight years of shelling, it is impossible to get used to the fact that you can get injured without leaving your home."
An elderly resident of Gorlovka tells how she was left without a roof over her head as a result of the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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An elderly resident of Gorlovka tells how she was left without a roof over her head as a result of the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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❗️ White House: Biden signs $40 bn aid bill for Ukraine's war effort
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⚡️ The WHO reports 80 confirmed cases of monkeypox in 11 countries; 50 more are under investigation
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⚡️ Moscow has imposed sanctions against Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's wife - Russian Foreign Ministry
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📹 Worse than fascists!
A resident of the city of Donetsk describes how Ukrainian artillery shelled her house.
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A resident of the city of Donetsk describes how Ukrainian artillery shelled her house.
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⚡️🎥 "What they did is that they, with tanks, were running over people in the parade": A refugee from Mariupol recalls the 9 May parade that ended in tragedy
🗣 "They have a task to intimidate civilians, and do as much damage as they can," the woman reveals.
🗣 "They have a task to intimidate civilians, and do as much damage as they can," the woman reveals.
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❗️ Russia slaps entry ban on 963 American citizens
❗️ The ban list includes US President Joe Biden as well as
▪️ Robert Hunter Biden (the US president’s son)
▪️ James Austin Lloyd III (US Secretary of Defense)
▪️ Anthony John Blinken (US Secretary of State)
▪️ Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas (US Secretary of Homeland Security)
▪️ William Joseph Burns (CIA Director)
▪️ Christopher Asher Wray (FBI Director)
▪️ Robert Hunter Biden (the US president’s son)
▪️ James Austin Lloyd III (US Secretary of Defense)
▪️ Anthony John Blinken (US Secretary of State)
▪️ Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas (US Secretary of Homeland Security)
▪️ William Joseph Burns (CIA Director)
▪️ Christopher Asher Wray (FBI Director)
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⚡️ Australian PM Scott Morrison concedes his government's election defeat
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❗️ White House: Biden signs $40 bn aid bill for Ukraine's war effort
🤔 The bill for the $40 bln aid to Ukraine that Biden signed Saturday was delivered by his aide, who took a commercial flight from Washington to South Korea, a report says
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📹 “We found narcotic substances on the prisoners. Using these drugs, they could go without sleeping and eating for several days; they did not feel tired.“
An officer of the People's Militia of the DPR explained drug use among the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's Donbas national battalion.
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An officer of the People's Militia of the DPR explained drug use among the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's Donbas national battalion.
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