Los Angeles Times: Space Exploration Technologies Corp, or SpaceX, recently received the Federal Aviation Administration’s first-ever commercial license to reenter a spacecraft from Earth orbit. The privately owned company needed the certification before its scheduled 7 December maiden launch of the Dragon space capsule, which is being designed to carry cargo and crew for NASA. The Dragon capsule is also being considered for the job of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station after the space shuttle program ends in 2011, according to W. J. Hennigan of the Los Angeles Times.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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