A SpaceX rocket soared from NASA’s long-idled moonshot pad Sunday, sending up space station supplies from the exact spot where astronauts embarked on the lunar landings nearly a half-century ago. It was the first flight from NASA’s legendary Launch Complex 39A since the shuttle program ended almost six years ago, and SpaceX’s first liftoff from Florida since a rocket explosion last summer.
Category: Boat Disaster
7 months in, expanded Panama Canal still faces challenges
In this Jan. 16, 2017 photo, a heron rests on a lock gate near protective bumpers, top left, torn by passing ships in the Cocoli Locks of the Panama Canal, Panama. According to the Panama Canal authority, between June and January there were 15 … incidents that resulted in damage to the locks or ships, or about 2 percent of the 700 total transits.
Winter Storm Coats Parts of South, Heads Toward New England
A winter storm that left a glaze of ice and snow across portions of the South and is being blamed for at least three deaths has turned its attention to New England, where travel conditions have already become treacherous and a chain-reaction accident on a Connecticut road involved nearly two dozen cars. Before the storm churned north along the Atlantic coast, it left icy conditions in Alabama and Mississippi, where a former governor was hospitalized after he slipped and fell on his icy driveway.