Parker Solar Probe mission delayed by last minute technical issue
NASA's Delta IV Heavy launch to the sun was halted with 1 minute 55 seconds left at Cape Canaveral delaying the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe. The mission aims to fly seven Venus flybys and 24 solar orbits, reaching within 3.8 million miles of the sun by 2024 2025. Eugene Parker, the physicist behind solar wind theory, attends the liftoff at 91. The probe's heat shield must endure 2 500 Fahrenheit while keeping instruments at 80 degrees.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
University of Chicago
Eugene
Parker
Venus
Earth
Eugene Parker
Associated Press
Ring found links Tuskegee Airman to family history
Marla Andrews received her father's 14 karat Art Deco ring found at the Austria crash site of Captain Lawrence E. Dickson, a Tuskegee Airman. DNA confirmed Dickson's remains. the ring, aqua stone, harmonica fragment, and cross were unearthed during a dig by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and universities.
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P.D
Phyllis Dickson
L.E.D
Lawrence E. Dickson
Andrews
United States
Defense Department
Dickson
Tuskegee
Tuskegee Army Flying School
Austria
University of New Orleans
Titus Firmin
Hohenthurn
Michael Mee
Army
Mee
Phillip Richardson
100Th
Tuskegee Army Air Field
Alabama
North Africa
Italy
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
University of Austria At
Innsbruck
National
New Orleans
Lawrence Dickson
Phyllis Constance Maillard
Nevada
New York City
Marla
Harlem
Harlem’s Old Sydenham Hospital
Peggin
Prague
Robert L. Martin
Martin
Olympia Fields
Conflict Repatriations
Nebraska
Michael Ruane
THE
Washington Post
Michael J. Mee
U.S. Army
Marla L. Andrews
Capt
Defense Pow-Mia Accounting Agency
East Orange
N.J
Crews Make Progress on Holy Fire Near Lake Elsinore
Firefighters edged toward containment of the Holy Fire south of Los Angeles, growing to 33 square miles with 29 percent containment. Aircraft dumped water and retardant as crews let select hillsides burn to reduce fuel, allowing some Lake Elsinore residents to return while others remain evacuated. The arson suspect appeared in court amid California's wide wildfire season linked to drought and warming trends.
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Lake Elsinore
Calif
Los Angeles
Cleveland National Forest
Holy Jim Canyon
California
Mendocino Complex
Sacramento
Carr
Two cousins shot in Chicago amid weekend gun violence
On the West Side a 15 and a 17 year old were grazed and shot while walking to a gas station. They sought treatment at Mount Sinai in good condition. The weekend total reached 20 shot with one dead, part of a surge as 600 officers patrolled post the city’s most violent weekend in over two years.
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Chicago
Genice Hines
Hines
Mount Sinai Hospital
Dylan Zavala
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