NASA Celebrates Crew-1 Arrival at Space Station

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November 17, 2020

Dear Reader, Crew-1, SpaceX's first operational mission to the International Station Station for NASA, arrived at the orbiting lab late Monday night, 27 hours after launching from Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket. "This mission was a dream," NASA human spaceflight chief Kathy Lueders said during a news conference this morning. Learn more about this milestone by reading today's lead story. Also in space news, a new study finds that radioactive elements produced by colliding neutron stars could impact planetary habitability. And lastly, to understand the battle over e-cigarettes, we look back to a time when tobacco marketing fueled a health crisis of its own.

Sunya Bhutta, Senior Editor, Audience Engagement @sunyaaa

Space NASA Celebrates Crew-1 Arrival at Space Station SpaceX's first 4-astronaut mission for the agency is a milestone in human spaceflight By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Space Stellar Smashups May Fuel Planetary Habitability, Study Suggests Radioactive elements produced by colliding neutron stars could make the difference between living and lifeless worlds By Marcus Woo

Public Health Amid Research into Vaping, a Whiff of a Familiar Tactic Emerges To understand the battle over e-cigarettes, one must look to history, and big tobacco By Kit R. Roane,Jeffery DelViscio,Kelso Harper

Energy With GOP Support, Arizona Mandates Cleaner Energy The falling costs of renewables has helped shift political winds around power generation By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

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Policy & Ethics Ten Steps That Can Restore Scientific Integrity in Government Here's what the Biden-Harris administration can do to repair the damage Trump has done By Lauren Kurtz,Gretchen Goldman

Mental Health Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020 Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman discusses the two things we can always control, even during a high-stress election and scary COVID pandemic By Jessica Wapner

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Back in Business: NASA Is Set to Return to Human Spaceflight with Historic SpaceX Launch Two astronauts will ride a privately built rocket and spacecraft to orbit, marking the first launch of humans from U.S. soil in nearly a decade By Irene Klotz | May 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It's the start of a new era." Kathy Lueders, NASA human spaceflight chief

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