Astronauts thrilled to be making first piloted flight aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft

Two veteran astronauts flew to the Kennedy Space Center Thursday afternoon to prepare for the first piloted launch of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, a long-awaited flight running years behind schedule after two uncrewed test flights and extensive work to resolve a variety of technical problems. Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams, two of NASA’s most

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Attorneys for American imprisoned by Taliban file urgent petitions with U.N.

Attorneys for Ryan Corbett, an American who has been imprisoned without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since August 2022, filed urgent petitions on Thursday with the United Nations in the latest push for his release.  The petitions include testimonies from two recently released, non-American detainees who described Corbett’s deteriorating mental and physical condition as

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