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Image: LegoBegun, the Comic-Con news, has. Though the convention won’t start until later this evening, Lego is already breaking news by revealing three brand new Star Wars sets that’ll be revealed at the event. Two are from Star Wars Ahsoka, the upcoming show coming to Disney+ on August 23, and the third is a big, brick-built Chewbacca.Spoilers of the Week May 9-13First up, from Ahsoka is the T-6 Jedi Shuttle set which comes with mini-figs of Ahsoka Tano, Sabine Wren, Professor Huyang, and Marrok, the mysterious…

NASA got some new crew transports yesterday: a small fleet of three all-electric, “specially designed” vans designed by EV startup Canoo that will shuttle the fully suited-up Artemis crew, support personnel, and equipment to the launchpad at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.NASA will also use the new fleet for astronaut training exercises ahead of next year’s planned Artemis II mission — a sort of test run that’ll zip astronauts around the Moon and back.It would be the first crewed mission out of low Earth…

The Space Shuttle is going to look launch ready once again, although this time the retired spacecraft won’t be firing its engines. Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayThe California Science Center is ready to kick off a six-month-long process to stack the components of the Space Shuttle into a vertical launchpad position suchthat it can go on display at the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, which is currently under construction, the science center announced on Thursday. The museum’s Go for Stack process is…

After more than a decade on display at the California Science Center, the space shuttle Endeavour will begin the final trek to its permanent home at a new Los Angeles building in the coming months.To get ready for the grand move, the state-run museum announced Thursday that crews will begin the installation of the base of the shuttle’s full stack on July 20. Workers will use a 300-ton crane to lower the bottom sections of the twin solid rocket boosters, which are 10,000 pounds apiece and roughly 9 feet tall, to the…

Published By: Mayank GuptaLast Updated: June 18, 2023, 12:33 ISTBengaluru International Airport (KIA) (Photo: Money Control)The shuttle bus was ferrying people from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 of the Kempegowda international airport in BengaluruTen people were injured when the shuttle bus they were traveling in from Terminal-1 to 2 of the Kempegowda international airport here crashed into a pillar early on Sunday, airport authorities said. The injured have been taken to the hospital for immediate medical treatment. Five…

For most of us, this would be a nightmare.Imagine being curled up inside a 90 centimeter (36 inch) fabric sphere with a small window and a small air tank while dangling from the Canadarm.As your tiny sphere shifts, you'd see Earth out your tiny window, then the Space Shuttle, damaged by some accident or other that caused you to need rescuing, then Earth again. Panic would set in pretty quickly.But that's where Space Shuttle astronauts in an emergency could've found themselves if NASA's Personal Rescue Enclosure (PRE) had…

NASA’s plodding, iterative approach to its Artemis program gives the distinct impression that it has somehow forgotten how to land humans on the Moon. A closer inspection uncovers the many reasons—whether justified or not—for why it’s taking NASA so long to return boots to those vaunted lunar grounds.Better Mobility & Cameras: NASA & Axiom's New Spacesuits | TechmodoWhen Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt said goodbye to the Moon in December 1972, no one would have guessed that…

Rivian has deleted the Camp Kitchen, Tunnel Shuttle, and R1T Tent from its online gear shop. All three were previously listed as “not available yet” until earlier today when their entries disappeared. One of the Rivian R1T’s unique features is its “gear tunnel,” a compartment that fits between the bed and the rear seats of the truck and opens to the outside of the truck. This offers a large, long space for equipment that drivers might not want to keep inside the truck but want to keep in a…

Image: Hot Toys, Japan Trend Shop, and HasbroWelcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest in toy news. This week: Jen Walters’ paramour gets the Hot Toys treatment in more ways than one, Star Wars’ Micro Galaxy ships come back for another round, and Hasbro rolls out the Dinobots in two new Transformers releases. Check it out!Image: Hot ToysHot Toys Marvel She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Daredevil Sixth-Scale FigureCharlie Cox’s Daredevil returned to the MCU with She-Hulk, and with him, a new updated and…

The Space Shuttle Columbia during its final launch, January 16, 2003. Photo: NASAThe 28th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia ended in disaster on February 1, 2003, while it was 27 miles above the state of Texas, marking the second catastrophic mission of NASA’s shuttle program. Twenty years later,the tragic event serves as an important reminder of the dangers posed by space exploration—and why astronaut safety should always be a priority.A falling chunk of insulating foam weighing no more than 1.67 pounds—that’s all…