95: Starliner Fail

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*Boeing’s new Starliner fails to reach the International Space Station
Boeing has failed in its first attempt to send its new CST-100 Starliner crew capsule to the International Space Station – instead getting the spacecraft stranded in a useless orbit.
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*The largest stellar-mass black hole ever detected
Astronomers have observed the largest stellar-mass black hole ever detected. The black hole catalogued as LB-1 has about 70 times the mass of the Sun – more than twice the size of any previously detected stellar-mass black hole.

*Scientists select a site on asteroid Bennu for a sample collection
Nightingale has been selected as the primary collection site for NASA’s Osiris-Rex sample return mission on the surface of the boulder-strewn asteroid Bennu.
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