NASA wants to create a time zone on the moon. Here’s what that means for Jewish space travelers
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News Israel’s first spaceship crashed on the lunar surface. Its second just ran into a more Earthly obstacle.
SpaceIL's rookie moonshot inspired a nation, and $90 million was a secured for a second attempt. But the sudden exit of a major benefactor has left the team scrambling
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Alabama museum removes quotation by Nazi scientist
Several items honoring NASA’s Wernher von Braun still remain around the US
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Culture The Space Force’s official song sounds like something Mel Brooks wrote
You'd be forgiven for thinking the tune sounds a whole lot like 'Jews in Space'
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Culture The secret Jewish history of ‘For All Mankind’
The acclaimed series from Apple TV+ was just renewed for a fourth season
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Fast Forward An Israeli astronaut is bringing matzo to the International Space Station
(JTA) — An Israeli astronaut is making a decidedly low-tech delivery to the International Space Station: handmade matzo. Eytan Stibbe, 64, is one of three astronauts paying for the privilege of launching into space on Friday, in an initiative of Axiom Space, a private company based in Houston. Chabad of the Space and Treasure Coasts…
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Culture 22 absolutely on-the-mark pop culture predictions for 2022
2021 was a year of new beginnings — not just for our newly reopened society, but also for the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to mutate into increasingly scary-sounding novel Greek letter variants. And so, we end 2021 on a note of uncertainty. In a year like this, when Taylor Swift surprised us with a 10-minute…
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Culture Today in corporate propaganda: Jeff Bezos and William Shatner take the ultimate ego trip — to space!
If there is something vaguely sinister about launching a beloved 90-year-old actor into space on very phallic rocket to distract the world from an egregious pattern of alleged labor rights abuses, making a one-hour corporate propaganda film about the initiative for your own streaming platform does little to convince us otherwise. But I commend Amazon…
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