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Meet the U.S. Navy divers who brought Artemis 2 astronauts home from the moon

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four young military men wearing black t-shirts and camouflage pants stand on the deck of a ship at sea

When NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean this month after their historic journey around the moon, they were first greeted by four U.S. Navy divers. The diving medical team — Lt. Col. Jesse Wang, Senior Hospital Corporal Ruddy Aldridge, Hospital Corporal Vlad Link, and Hospital Corporal 1st Class Steve Capala — … Read more

U.S. tests spinning fuel with 180 million degrees Fahrenheit plasma for nuclear reactors

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U.S. tests spinning fuel with 180 million degrees Fahrenheit plasma for nuclear reactors

Scientists in the United States have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel in tokamaks operating at about 100 million degrees Celsius to explore a more efficient path to nuclear fusion through particle alignment. The project, led by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, aims to assess whether … Read more