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Commercial US Spaceship Making Attempted Moon Landing

Graphic of the Odysseus Nova-C class lander by US company Intuitive Machines, part of NASA's Artemis project to bring humans back to the Moon and build a permanent base there
A Houston-based company is set Thursday to land America's first spaceship on the Moon in more than 50 years, part of a new fleet of NASA-funded, uncrewed commercial robots meant to pave the way for astronaut missions later this decade.
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Actor and filmmaker Isild Le Besco has accused film director Benoit Jacquot of 'psychological violence' during their relationship

Second Actress Accuses French Director Jacquot Of Abuse

A second French actress accused film director Benoit Jacquot Thursday of having a "destructive hold" over her during a relationship that started when she was 16 and he was 52, after another filed a legal case alleging he raped her as a minor.
China said Thursday it had signed agreements to send pandas to a zoo in San Diego

China Plans To Send More Pandas To US Zoo

China said Thursday it had signed agreements to send pandas to a zoo in San Diego, after nearly all the beloved black-and-white animals on loan in the United States were returned during years of diplomatic tensions.
This photo courtesy of Intuitive Machine shows the first view of Earth taken during the IM-1 mission

US Heads Back To The Moon -- With A Commercial Spaceship

One giant leap for the private sector? NASA paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to ship its hardware under a new initiative called Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), which it created to delegate trucking services to the private sector to achieve savings and stimulate a wider lunar economy.
The harm goes beyond whales -- there is evidence that scores of marine species are negatively affected by underwater noise pollution

Whales 'Cannot Out-sing' Human Noise Pollution

Baleen whales have evolved a special voice box to help them to sing underwater -- but this could also make them uniquely vulnerable to being drowned out by human noise pollution, according to new research published Wednesday.

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