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Soaring rhetoric: NASA mission will carry Poet Laureate …

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is seen at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Limón wrote a new poem for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa" will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. NASA expects to launch the mission in October 2024. (Gregory M. Waigand/NASA via AP)

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Boeing’s astronaut capsule faces more launch delays after …

FILE - Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft mounted on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. On Thursday, June 1, 2023, Boeing and NASA announced that the astronaut capsule faces more launch delays, this time because of flammable tape and weak parachute lines. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP, File)

Brazil’s Congress weakens pro-environment ministries in …

FILE - The new Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, and the new President of the National Foundation of the Indian, Joenia Wapichana, celebrate during their inauguration ceremony at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 11, 2023. In a rejection of early moves by Lula who took office in January, Brazil’s Congress on June 1, 2023 stripped powers from the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Boeing signs alternative fuel deal with Los Angeles startup …

A demonstration site of a seawater-based carbon removal system is set up on a barge, Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in San Pedro, Calif. Equatic, a Los Angeles startup that is designing facilities to remove carbon dioxide from the ocean says it has struck an agreement with Boeing to provide the aerospace giant with a byproduct of the process to help it cut emissions from planes. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

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Private flight with 2 Saudi astronauts returns from space …

In this frame grab from video broadcast by SpaceX, recovery crews lift and secure the SpaceX Dragon capsule after it splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida Panhandle, late Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station. (SpaceX via AP)

China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, expand …

Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou-16 mission, from left, Gui Haichao, Jing Haipeng, and Zhu Yangzhu wave as they stand behind glass during a meeting with the press at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday, May 29, 2023. China's space program plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, a top official with the country's space program said Monday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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IAEA team in Japan for final review before planned …

FILE - This photo shows some of about 1,000 huge tanks holding treated but still radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 22, 2023. An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tokyo on Monday, May 29, 2023, for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a plan that has been strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi, File)

Brazil: UN regional group has endorsed Amazon city …

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference after attending the Group of Seven nations' summit in Hiroshima, western Japan, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software, …

FILE - In this photo provided by ispace, engineers and affiliates work on the flight model of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander at the IABG Space Test Centre in Ottobrunn, Germany, in August 2022. A Tokyo company whose lunar lander slammed into the moon last month says inadequate software and a last-minute switch in the touchdown location led to the crash. Officials for the company ispace said Friday, May 26, 2023 that its spacecraft was originally supposed to land in a flat plain. (ispace Via AP)

Three cheetah cubs die in India amid sweltering heat …

FILE- Two cheetahs are seen inside a quarantine section before being relocated to India at a reserve near Bella Bella, South Africa, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Three cheetah cubs, born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year, died in May, 2023. Their mother was among the 20 that India flew in from Namibia and South Africa, as a part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce them to Indian grasslands. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

Virgin Galactic completes final test flight before …

This photo released by Virgin Galactic shows mission specialist Jamila Gilbert, center, looking out one of the portal windows as she experiences weightlessness during a test flight on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Virgin Galactic completed what’s expected to be its final test flight Thursday before taking paying customers on brief trips to space. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Shift to clean energy accelerating, but coal investments …

Smoking chimneys and solar panel farm are seen along a highway in a coal producing region in Yulin in northwestern China's Shaanxi province, April 24, 2023. Energy security concerns, worsened by the war in Ukraine, and policy support from rich countries are likely to help investments in clean energy outpace spending on fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency said in a report issued Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Flying drones and chasing data, Indigenous women …

Gate operator Hakim Altaf checks the gate on the seawall in Georgetown, Guyana, Thursday, April 13, 2023. The seawall relies on dozens of workers like Altaf, who set alarms night and day to manually open and close sluice gates known as “kokers” that prevent the Atlantic Ocean from flooding Guyana. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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As legal gambling surges, should schools teach teens …

Chips sit on a roulette table at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City N.J., on May 17, 2023. With large numbers of high school students saying they are already gambling with friends or online before they are old enough to do so legally, several states are moving to require classes on the risks of gambling as part of high school curriculum. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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College student accused of setting fire to Wyoming’s …

FILE - This booking photo provided by the Platte County Sheriff's Office shows Lorna Roxanne Green on March 23, 2023 in Wheatland, Wyo. The college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building being turned into Wyoming's only full-service abortion clinic is set to appear in federal court Friday, June 2, to enter a plea to an arson charge. (Platte County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Black men were likely underdiagnosed with lung problems …

FILE - An 8-year-old student blows into a spirometer held by a nurse outside an elementary school in Bel Nor, Mo., in May 2009. Racial bias built into a common medical test for lung function is likely leading to fewer Black patients getting care for breathing problems, researchers said in a study published in JAMA Network Open on Thursday, June 1, 2023. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

Supreme Court revives claims that SuperValu, Safeway …

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, on Nov. 5, 2020. The Supreme Court has unanimously revived whistleblower lawsuits claiming that supermarket and pharmacy chains SuperValu and Safeway overcharged government health-care programs for prescription drugs by hundreds of millions of dollars. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Government body warns of increased health threats …

FILE - This undated photo released Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, by National Institute of Infectious Diseases via Kyodo News, shows a tiger mosquito. Germany's disease control agency warned Thursday, June 1, 2023 that rising temperatures due to global warming will increase the likelihood of heat stroke, vector-borne illnesses and other health risks in the country. (AP Photo/National Institute of Infectious Diseases via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT

Court rules Austria can’t be held liable for early …

FILE - A giant advertising goggle reading the slogan 'relax, if you can' stands in Ischgl, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. An Austrian federal court says the state can’t be held liable for a COVID-19 infection in an outbreak at an Alpine ski resort as the pandemic hit Europe in early 2020. The Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday announced its verdict in a long-running legal battle involving a German resident who traveled to Ischgl on March 7, 2020 and visited several apres-ski venues before returning home six days later. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

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