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By DENNIS OVERBYE, New York Times
Sun, 05/24/2009 - 9:16am

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis finally made it home after a voyage of more than 5 million miles.

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One flight closer to space tourism
Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
Police confiscate 4-foot, 2-pound marijuana joint
California police confiscated a mammoth joint during a 4/20 pot rally on Saturday, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the paper notes, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gather each year for the event, and each year campus police confiscate things like bongs and dime bags. More
Tornado sirens giving way to new warning technology
On April 10, 2011, tornadoes ripped across Wisconsin, tearing roofs off houses, toppling trees and snapping power lines. In many places, the high winds were greeted with silence as some Cold War-era warning sirens failed because of lost power and other issues — just when they were needed the most. More
Wild weather: Floods, snow, tornadoes hit central USA
Middle America was overwhelmed by weather Thursday, with snow in the north, tornadoes in the Plains, and torrential rains that caused floods and transportation woes - and a sinkhole in Chicago. More
Iran struck by magnitude 7.8 quake
Iran has been struck by its most powerful earthquake for more than 50 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India and the Middle East. The epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude quake was near the south-eastern city of Khash, close to Pakistan. More

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It's the 5th anniversary of the United States Space Force, but what does it do?
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Could new Space Force cyber warfare unit land in San Antonio? Some already working to get it here.
The Space Force plans to create its own cyber headquarters, and some community leaders are vying to land the unit in San Antonio.
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