Scheduled for 30 December, at 9:58 PM, the mission will lift off from Sriharikota aboard the PSLV-C60 rocket, marking the nation’s first step towards interplanetary missions and the ...

Gov. Tony Evers has extended the order for flags in Wisconsin to fly at half-staff until sunset Monday out of respect for the victims of a shooting last week at a Christian school in Madison.

New research has found a way to power spacecraft with lasers generated using solar energy alone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

As of December 20, 2024, several states have ordered flags to be flown at half-staff today and over the coming weekend. These gestures serve as solemn tributes to individuals who have served their ...

Florida State Senator Randy Fine has introduced a bill aimed at banning flags representing political viewpoints, race, sexual orientation, or gender from being displayed at public schools ...

At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

Senior judge was found to have committed misconduct Wrote essay calling justice’s flag-flying ‘improper’ A federal judge committed judicial misconduct in criticizing Justice Samuel Alito’s flying of ...

Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor in Springfield, Massachusetts, wrote in his May 24, 2024, essay that any judge with reasonable ethical instincts would have realized that flying a flag ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto.

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