The Bosphorus Strait in Turkey reopened at 3:40 p.m. local time on July 21 following the grounding of general cargo ship Majed & Randy due to mechanical failure,
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Intracoastal Waterway Reopened After Barge Collision
The U.S. Coast Guard has fully reopened the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) near Bolivar Peninsula, Texas Monday at 9:15 p.m. Monday, after closing it for a barge collision earlier in the day.
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Faulty metal brace likely doomed SpaceX Falcon rocket, Musk says
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - A faulty metal brace in an unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket likely triggered the explosion that destroyed the booster minutes after liftoff from Florida last month, company chief Elon Musk said on Monday.
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Bad strut likely doomed SpaceX Falcon rocket, Musk says
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A flawed steel strut holding a helium pressurization bottle likely gave way, dooming a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last month, company chief Elon Musk said on Monday.
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Mariner Missing from Capsized Towboat
The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to the report of a missing person and capsized vessel in the Upper Mississippi River, Monday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard
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Barge Collision Spill Impacts Houston Ship Channel
A section of a key Gulf Coast waterway was shut after two barges collided Monday, setting one afire and possibly spilling a gasoline additive near the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel, the U.
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The $100 million question: are we alone in the cosmos?
SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are about to embark on the biggest search yet for alien life, sweeping the skies for signals of civilizations beyond our solar system with $100 million from a Russian billionaire and the backing of physicist ...
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Comet lander falls silent, scientists fear it has moved
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Philae comet lander has fallen silent, European scientists said on Monday, raising fears that it has moved again on its new home millions of miles from Earth.
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Astronauts’ skin gets thinner in space, scientists say
A long-awaited human mission to the Red Planet is still a number of years away, with NASA planning their first manned voyage in the 2030s. But at more than 55 million kilometers away, astronauts face at least half a year of space travel just to get to ...
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Seattle’s long-broken tunnel-boring machine set to resume Nov. 23
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The world's largest-diameter tunneling machine could resume drilling under downtown Seattle in late November after repairs are completed, allowing a central part of a years-delayed highway project to go forward, Washington state off...
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