CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX has resumed space station deliveries for NASA, launching the first inflatable room ever built for astronauts.
And in a double triumph, the company also successfully landed its first-stage booster on an ocean platform for the first time.
SpaceX employees gathered around the company’s Mission Control in Hawthorne, California, cheered wildly and chanted “U.S.A.” after the booster touched down on the barge off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday. Previous barge attempts had failed.
The Dragon and inflatable room should reach the space station Sunday.
WASHINGTON – A draft version of a Senate bill would effectively prohibit unbreakable encryption and require companies to help the government access data on a computer or mobile device with a warrant.
The draft is being finalized by the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and the top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.
Their goal, they said, is to ensure adherence to any court order that requires helping law enforcement or providing decrypted information.
AUSTIN, Texas – A homeless 17-year-old has been arrested and will be charged with murder Friday in the killing of a University of Texas dance major whose body was recovered in the heart of the bustling campus unnerving one of the country’s best-known schools.
Investigators said Meechaiel Criner wasn’t a university student and wasn’t believed to have been in Austin long. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said Criner could face additional charges in the slaying of 18-year-old Oregon-native Haruka Weiser.
“We are very certain that the subject we have in custody ... is responsible for the death of this beautiful young woman,” Acevedo said at a campus news conference.
Weiser’s body was found Tuesday in a creek near the alumni center and the university’s iconic football stadium, an area that hums with activity day and night.
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