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When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the world in February 2020, Linda Guamán, a microbiologist at the UTE University of Quito, was ready to serve her country. Ecuador announced its first case on February 29 and the disease spread rapidly. Guayaquil, the country’s largest city, was especially hard hit. Hospitals, funeral homes and mortuaries
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join the Expedition 74
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorized SpaceX to fly Starship prototypes again, after the company identified the probable cause of the rocket system’s booster stage failure during a flight in May. SpaceX said over the weekend that the next Starship flight could take place this Thursday, July 16. It would be the second release of