Chris Carola

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Smart Ring Maker ŌURA Building Texas Factory to Support Pentagon Contract
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SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.
Latest Launch of SpaceX's Starship Deploys 8 Dummy Satellites, then Splashes Down into Indian Ocean
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ISS Will Test Growing Artificial Livers in Space
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A module on the International Space Station.
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A worker pumps his fists as he stands between the cutting blades of a massive tunneling machine after it broke through a five-foot wide concrete wall to complete boring for the State Route 99 highway, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, under Seattle. After tunneling more than 9,000 feet and building an outer tunnel wall as it moved forward, the boring machine finished digging what will be a two-mile, double-decker traffic tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way viaduct, damaged in an earthquake in 2001.
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In this July 6, 2014 file photo, Christopher Bulko pilots a Spad VII reproduction bi-plane during an air show at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Fighter aircraft such as the Spad VII were used for the first time during World War I. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today.
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