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Paul Skenes Is Aiming to Break Baseball’s Ultimate Barrier

The former Air Force cadet is confident he can continue to throw 100 mph and avoid a debilitating arm injury.

Sports Illustrated

11 epically long films that won’t waste your time, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: In honour of Brady Corbet’s 215-minute epic ‘The Brutalist’ receiving 10 Oscar nods, Annabel Nugent and Jacob Stolworthy select 11 other movies with mammoth runtimes that are worth the investment

The Independent UK

Joe Engle, X-15 rocket plane and space shuttle astronaut, dies at 91

Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space on two different winged vehicles, has died at the age of 91. Engle's first flights into space on the X-15 preceded his launching on the space shuttle.

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He missed a chance to be the first Black astronaut. Now, at 90, he's going into space

Edward J. Dwight Jr. is set to be on the next Blue Origin rocket into space. The rare opportunity comes more than six decades after he was passed over to become a NASA astronaut.

WEKU

‘No one had done it before him’: the groundbreaking stories of Black astronauts

In documentary The Space Race, the people involved with major progress within Nasa talk about their highs and lows

The Guardian - US

NASA unveils its revolutionary X-59 Quesst 'quiet' supersonic jet (photos, video)

NASA and Lockheed Martin showed off the finished X-59 Quesst jet today, which promises to usher in a new era of quieter supersonic flight.

Space

Astronaut Luca Parmitano on NASA's return to the moon: 'It's no longer a dream' (exclusive)

An exclusive interview with the European Space Agency's accomplished astronaut Luca Parmitano, the first Italian to command the International Space Station.

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6 people are confirmed dead after 2 planes collided mid-air at a Dallas airshow

News footage from the scene at the Wings over Dallas air show showed the crumpled wreckage of two historic military planes.

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Six dead in airshow horror crash after two WW2 planes collide in mid-air

The planes were a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63

Evening Standard

Bleeding edge experimental plane could solve supersonic flight’s biggest drawback

Banning a physical phenomenon associated with your flight style definitely puts a crimp on the commercial development of supersonic engines.

Inverse

Greg Cote: Larry Csonka, ‘heart’ of Dolphins glory days, on his life of adventure — and perfection

It was 1987 when the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, made Larry Csonka one of its own. He had grown up on a farm a half hour north in Stow, Ohio, one of six kids in a Hungarian family of modest means. They made their own butter.…

Miami Herald

For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable

ROSAMOND, Calif. — Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier generations ago.

Tribune News Service

Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had other ideas

At the height of the space race in the 1960s, Air Force Captain Ed Dwight was chosen to attend a special astronaut training program. He tells the story of what happened next.

WEKU

Woody Williams, the last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions.

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Last remaining WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98

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Every Indy 500 pace car and its driver, 1911 to 2022

Sarah Fisher is the latest in a long roll-call of celebrities and/or motorsport figures to drive the pace car and lead the eleven rows of three to the green flag for the Indianapolis 500.

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