Two congressmen secretly flew into Kabul without authorization on Tuesday to witness the frantic evacuation of Americans and Afghans, angry Biden government officials and spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi urge other lawmakers not to follow suit. The two members – Rep. Seth Moulton, Democrat from Massachusetts and Peter Meijer, Republican from Michigan, both veterans – said in … Read more
The US Transportation Command commander says he is taking the evacuation effort in Afghanistan personally and will “not rest until the mission is complete”. (23 August)
(Blue original photo) Jeff Bezos and his crewmembers will not jump on board for a suborbital replay on the next New Shepard mission. The Amazon founder’s space company announced on Wednesday that the reusable rocket ship’s 17th flight will carry scientific and research payloads. Blue Origin scheduled launch on August 25 at 6:35 am PT … Read more
Thank you for reading Startups Weekly. Would you like the weekly summary in your inbox every Saturday? Login here. Last week, edtech entrepreneurs, investors and analysts gathered at ASU + GSV, an annual global edtech conference, to reflect on the sector’s newly-discovered limelight following the massive shock of COVID-19. Aside from the masked excitement of … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s long-awaited mission to Europe, Jupiter’s icy moon, which may have the conditions to support life. The agency has been planning to send a probe to the Jupiter moon for years and completed its plans in 2019. In its announcement, NASA said the Europa Clipper spacecraft is scheduled … Read more
adyn CEO Elizabeth Ruzzo. (adyn photo) As a scientist, Elizabeth Ruzzo likes to make decisions based on data. When she went through trial and error with several doctors trying to find a method of contraception that would not make her unhappy, she was angry and confused. She consulted a doctor only to learn what she … Read more
Rocket Lab is known (mostly) for its orbital flights, but its interplanetary efforts will soon bear fruit. The startup has received an order to build two spaceships for ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), a mission selected by NASA to investigate how solar wind is removing the Martian atmosphere and changing the planet’s … Read more
Almost all of Forest Hills, DC residents got their first Covid-19 footage in January. But almost half of the employees there had turned them down. Would an attempt to change her mind be successful?