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The very first launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle is expected to carry the NASA Mars smallsat mission in the coming year. However, experts worry that the spacecraft development might affect the mission's schedule timings. In February 2023, both companies announced their partnership to launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) spacecraft with the New Glen. Now, the mission is expected to take its first flight with the new launch vehicle by the end of 2024. Learn more about…

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre marks the fourth pairing of director Guy Ritchie and muse Jason Statham- who has been a Ritchie regular since Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Here, as the stakes go higher in fast-paced, globe-trotting Mission Impossible-like iterations, the convoluted instincts of this espionage thriller come together to provide an engaging, screwball delight. Aubrey Plaza in a still from Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. Yet, Ritchie knows exactly what he's doing with the demands of a…

Image via Lucasfilm Indiana Jones is no stranger to dealing with the fantastical; from face-melting ghosts to untimely brainwashing to medieval knights to ancient aliens, the adventures of pop culture’s favorite archaeologist are some of cinemas finest works in the magic realism genre. But how might Harrison Ford‘s premier character fare if the realism was removed from the equation? This was a question that lingered in the mind of one inhabitant of r/FanTheories long enough to creep into their supposedly ample…

Artist’s conception of the twin Janus probes. Image: Lockheed MartinA software glitch has caused the delay of Psyche, a NASA mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid. Two small probes are being included in the launch, but the postponement means they might not be able to rendezvous with their respective target asteroids.Psyche, a probe designed to explore the unusual metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche, is currently undergoing preparations at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission engineers recently spotted an anomaly that…