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For the first time since the 17 Apollos in 1972, NASA has officially owned a spaceship that is expected to officially fly humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin, the leading contractor of Orion Space Capsule, transferred ownership of Artemis II Spacecraft on Thursday to the Kennedy Space Center agency’s Exploration Ground Systems Team Base. The Artemis II is scheduled to be released by KSC by April 2026, bringing NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day mission around the moon, but not on the moon. Its launch date is a repeatedly delayed…

Multi-family building permits fell 27% from Pandemic High in Austin, Texas, as cities such as Stockton, California led new permits like food stalls. According to a new analysis by Redfin, developers are being pulled back from new apartment projects across the United States, with multi-family unit building permits below the level seen before the Covid-19 pandemic.For the 12 months ended March 2025, the developer has obtained permission to build apartment complex units of 12.4 per 10,000 people nationwide. That figure is down 27.1% from the height of construction during the pandemic era, 5.5% below the pre-pandemic average.The findings, based on…

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget appears to end space launch systems rockets, Orion spacecraft and Gateway space stations at the heart of NASA’s existing Artemis program, but after a successful lunar landing when the country remains in competition with China. A preliminary summary of the White House’s planned 2026 discretionary budget released Friday called SLS and Orion “severely expensive and delayed,” and says each SLS rocket alone would cost $4 billion, 140% more than the budget. This is one of the billions of dollars cuts as NASA’s overall budget of $18.8 billion has been proposed, which is almost $25 billion…

The agency said it was trying to address “long-standing surveillance concerns.”The latest information Social Security Agency (SSA) says it is moving forward in determining the accuracy of data for individuals who are marked entitled to receive payments but have been marked dead.In a statement on April 29, the agency said “significant progress has been made in improving the accuracy of death data and addressing long-standing surveillance concerns,” adding that it has improved “established procedures for identifying people who are likely to have died due to age or incomplete death reports.””Breaking the records of incredibly older individuals is an important anti-combust…

TALHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – Tallahassee lawmakers are compiling the 2025 legislative meeting. But with no final budget in sight, the million-dollar question, what will come next?The Senate and House of Representatives were unable to meet the 60-day deadline to pass the final budget. Currently, lawmakers have broken a week and are choosing to extend the session. Or they can die today and pass the budget back this summer.The 2025 legislative meeting is not normal. Lawmakers met three special sessions to tackle immigration reform, with Capitol clashes between the governor, the House and the Senate, and the final state budget is…

US Senator Ashley Moody has introduced new laws aimed at strengthening US leadership in the space industry by strengthening collaboration between the federal government and Florida’s growing public and civil aerospace organizations.The bill, entitled The Secure US Leadership in Space Act, seeks to strengthen federal support for space bridge infrastructure, especially in states like Florida, which serve as a major launch hub. The legislation will increase federal coordination with state-led space initiatives, modernize space capabilities, and promote partnerships between commercial space companies and government agencies.”Florida is the gateway to space,” Moody said. “Our Spaceport, Cape Canaveral in particular, plays a…

Trump ended funding for the Museum and Library Services Institute in an executive order on March 14th.Federal judges have temporarily banned the Trump administration from ending institutions supporting US libraries.Richard Leon, a senior judge at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled on May 1 that the administration could not terminate the Department of Museums and Library (IMLS) funds.”The plaintiffs established that the termination of grants, loss of access to IMLS expertise and services, and loss of access to IMLS data forced libraries to close midstream, fire employees and, in some cases, fully shutters,” he wrote in…

Paul Wiseman, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — American employers added an astounding 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Employment fell slightly from the revised 185,000 in March, which surpasses the forecast of economists of 135,000 employment. The Labor Bureau reported Friday that the unemployment rate remains low 4.2%. Trump’s aggressive and unpredictable policies, including massive import taxes, clouded the outlook for the economy and job markets, and raised fears that the US economy was heading towards a recession. Friday’s report shows that employment, one of the…

SANTIAGO, Chile – A 7.4-sized earthquake occurred on Friday from the southern coast of Chile and Argentina, prompting evacuation of Chilean coastlines throughout the Magalan region and halting water activity and navigation in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego province.No damage or casualties were reported initially.The US Geological Survey said the epicenter of the epicenter was 219 kilometres (173 miles) below the sea, south of the city west of Argentina.Chilean authorities issued evacuation warnings throughout the coastal area of ​​the Magellan Strait, far south of the country.”Due to tsunami alerts, the coastal sector of the Magalan region has been ordered to evacuate…

Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Business Writer LONDON (AP) – European Union Privacy Watchdog fined Tiktok USD 600 million on Friday after a four-year investigation found that users were at risk of spying after video sharing app data was transferred to China. The Irish Data Protection Commission also granted Tiktok that users are not transparent about where their personal data is being sent and ordered the company to comply with the rules within six months. Because the company’s European headquarters is based in Dublin, the Ireland National Watchdog serves as Tiktok’s lead data privacy regulator in 27 countries and EU. “Tiktok…