… Ingenuity’s team at NASA notched more success
this past weekend with its 17th flight in the Red Planet’s Jezero
Crater, when it flew through some hills that briefly interrupted radio
communication. But the tiny, 4-pound helicopter apparently came through
unscathed, NASA said.
Ingenuity was designed to fly for 30 days to demonstrate that such a
craft could navigate in the thin Martian atmosphere. But its mission has
surpassed 7 ½ months, witnessed a change of seasons on Mars, survived
a near-total blackout of communications during a solar conjunction and
performed vital scouting for the Perseverance rover. …
A judge in Texas ruled on Thursday that a law prohibiting
abortions after about six weeks violated the state’s constitution
because it allows private citizens to sue abortion providers.
The parents of two Oxford High School students are suing school
officials, claiming last week’s fatal school shootings in Michigan were
“entirely preventable,” and that the defendants “created and increased
the dangers then-existing at Oxford High School.”
A deadly shooting at a Michigan high school that authorities have
said was carried out by a 15-year-old boy was “entirely preventable,”
according to a lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages filed on Thursday
against the school district and its officials on behalf of two sisters
who survived the rampage.
When John and Theodore Copsey helped build California’s Lower Lake Stone Jail in 1876, they didn’t expect they’d become the first people to ever be jailed there- but that’s exactly what happened after they celebrated their finished project a little too much at the local saloon.
After remembering they’d forgotten to secure the roof, they also became the first people to ever escape from it.
