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History "I hope you will never see this letter" Yuri Gagarin's note to his wife and daughters in 1961 Mark Frauenfelder

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trump Mike Pence ordered to testify before a Federal grand jury Jason Weisberger

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Space NASA monitoring asteroid with 1 in 625 chance of hitting Earth on Valentine's Day 2046 Rob Beschizza

fbi FBI admits to circumventing warrant laws by using capitalism instead Thom Dunn

space force The Ukraine War is speeding up US Space Force plans to establish galactic armed conflict policies Thom Dunn

Ukraine The beautiful threadwork of Ukrainian artist Vladimir Denshchikov (1952-2022) Elías Villoro

UFOs Fourth thingy shot down entering U.S. airspace Rob Beschizza

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