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Blue Origin will launch Ed Dwight, the 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate, to space on next New Shepard rocket flight

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What time is the total solar eclipse on April 8?

(Daisy Dobrijevic)

The first place in North America to experience the totality stage of the solar eclipse, whereby the moon covers 100% of the sun's disk will be Mazatlán in Sinaloa, Mexico, with totality beginning at 11:07 a.m. MST (1:07 p.m. EDT) and lasting for 4 minutes 20 seconds. The total solar eclipse will then cross two more Mexican cities, Durango and Coahuila. Next, the path of totality will enter the U.S. in Texas before moving across 15 U.S. States before heading into Canada. With over 32 million people living within the path of totality across the U.S. alone, this is shaping up to be one of the most watched solar eclipses ever.

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Blue Origin to launch 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate

(Blue Origin)

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin announced the six crewmembers for the NS-25 space tourism mission, which will lift off from Blue Origin's West Texas site in the relatively near future. (The target date has not yet been revealed.) Among the six are former U.S. Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight, who was selected as the nation's first Black astronaut candidate back in 1961, according to Blue Origin.

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Total Solar Eclipse 2024

NASA will launch rockets into the total solar eclipse

(NASA/Berit Bland)

NASA's Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission -- named for the Egyptian god of darkness and enemy of the sun god, Ra - will launch the three sounding rockets back into the moon's shadow during the April 8 total solar eclipse. The goal is to study potential disturbances in the ionosphere during a solar eclipse.

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Concorde set the record for longest solar eclipse in history

(Grant Faint via Getty Images)

This eclipse, none will come close to achieving what Concorde 001 did on June 30, 1973, when it raced the moon's shadow along the Tropic of Cancer during a total solar eclipse. Flying at 55,000 feet (17,000 meters), the world's fastest supersonic jet extended the duration of totality from a maximum of 7 minutes, 4 seconds on the ground to a stunning 74 minutes.

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Spaceflight

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida

(SpaceX)

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida early this morning at 5:12 a.m. EDT (0912 GMT).

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Science & Astronomy

Ambitious new dark matter-hunting experiment's 1st results

(BREAD Collaboration /Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

While the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) developed by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab hasn't turned up dark matter particles just yet, the new results place a tighter constraint on the type of characteristics scientists can expect such particles to have. The BREAD experiment itself also served up an exciting new recipe that could be used in the hunt for dark matter - a relatively inexpensive one that doesn't take up a vast amount of space.

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SpaceX

Super Heavy moved to pad ahead of 4th Starship flight

(SpaceX)

SpaceX is continuing to gear up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket. On Thursday (April 4), SpaceX announced via X that it has moved a Starship first stage, a 33-engine booster called Super Heavy, to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas.

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Technology

China putting finishing touches on seaside spaceport

(CCTV)

China is making progress on two new pads for commercial space launches from the island of Hainan. Launch Pad Number 1 at Hainan International Commercial Space Launch Center was completed late last year, while progress on a second pad has entered the equipment-installation phase and will be completed by the end of May.

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Telescopes & Binoculars

Solar eclipse deal: Celestron solar telescope now $30 off

(Celestron)

The Celestron EclipSmart Travel Solar Scope is now $30 off and under $100, just in time for the total solar eclipse on April 8. but buy soon if you want it to arrive in time.

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Star Trek

'Star Trek: Discovery' opens its 5th and final season

(Paramount+)

Well, here we are. Again. It's the fifth and final time around for "Star Trek: Discovery" and the single biggest question every sci-fan will be asking themselves is, will this season actually be any good. The tragic thing is, no one can really remember what happened in season 4 and that speaks directly to the fact that "Discovery" is not exactly a high-scoring show when it comes to rewatchability.

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