After months of turmoil over its safety, Boeing’s new astronaut capsule is set to depart the International Space Station on Friday without its crew.
NASA ’s two test pilots will stay behind at the space station — their home until next year — as the Starliner capsule prepares to undock and aims for a touchdown six hours later in the New Mexico desert. NASA ultimately decided it was too risky to return Wilmore and Williams on Starliner.We are accustomed to scrums and line-outs as defining aspects of Test matches because they govern impetus. If teams are accurate and efficient in those areas, they have a decent chance of winning.
US stock futures are reacting to the August jobs report, which saw 142,000 nonfarm payroll jobs added to the labor market, below economist expectations of 165,000. The unemployment rate was in line with US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates, falling to 4.2% from 4.3% in July. The Federal Reserve is digesting August's labor print as officials enter their "blackout period" ahead of the central bank's September meeting in two weeks.
The governments of Greece and Cyprus will meet on Sept. 10 in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a multi-billion euro electric cable project, which if completed, would be the world's longest linking Europe to the Middle East. The Great Sea Interconnector seeks to link the transmission networks of Greece via Crete to Cyprus and eventually Israel in a project costing 2.4 billion euros .
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