Friends of the Earth Slams Failed Cook Inlet Lease Sale

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Friends of the Earth Slams Failed Cook Inlet Lease Sale

WASHINGTON – Bidding in last week’s Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale revealed a notable reluctance from the fossil fuel industry to pursue risky development in Alaska waters, despite insistence from Big Oil-friendly legislators that the sale was necessary. The December 30 sale was previously canceled by the Biden administration due to “a lack of […]

Voyager, NASA’s Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space

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Voyager, NASA’s Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space

 Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. NASA’s twin Voyager probes have become, in some ways, time capsules of their era: They each carry an eight-track tape player for recording data, they have about 3 million times less memory than modern cellphones, and […]

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