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SpaceX Falcon 9 launched with the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:34 p.m. EDT.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched with the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched with the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A
SpaceX launched the Japanese ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1 robotic moon lander, and NASA's micro-satellite called Lunar Flashlight to look for signs of water ice hidden in the permanently dark crater floors of the moon's poles. After launch, booster B1073 returned to land at LZ-2 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Thursday evening launch for SpaceX with the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:08 p.m. EDT
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched with the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the SES-22 C band TV & 5G data communication satellite for SES of Luxembourg Wednesday afternoon at 5:04 p.m. EDT
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:34 p.m. EDT.
SpaceX launched the latest batch of their Starlink high speed internet satellites with the 4-25 mission, at 9:38 a.m. EDT from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
Today (20/09/2018) RAF Typhoon fighter Aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth were scrambled to intercept two Russian Long Range Blackjack bombers and escort them whilst in the UK area of interest.
The Grayzone - Ukraine first, America later: the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment:
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Biden faces political threat with East Palestine train derailment
02/24/23 06:00 AM
President Biden and the White House face a political threat over the fallout from the administration’s response to the Norfolk Southern train derailment that has left residents of East Palestine, Ohio, scared and frustrated.
Republicans have gone on the attack over the Feb. 3 derailment, questioning the urgency of the administration’s response and asking why Biden has not visited the impacted community.
Former President Trump on Wednesday accused the Biden administration of “indifference and betrayal” toward East Palestine during a visit there, while the mayor of the village called it a “slap in the face” that Biden went to Europe before visiting the site of a potential environmental disaster. The White House said Biden has not spoken to the mayor.
It’s not as if Biden is at a political low point.
He returned late Wednesday from a dramatic trip to Ukraine and Poland to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion, completing a secretive and complex visit to an active war zone with no U.S. military presence.
That visit was a sign of the president’s strength and will be used by the White House and Biden allies to both shore up support for the Western effort to back Kyiv and to counter any suggestion that Biden lacks the strength and energy to do his job.
It is part of a broadly successful several weeks for Biden, who put Republicans on defense over Social Security and Medicare during his State of the Union address. The president’s approval rating increased to 49 percent, according to an NPR poll released Wednesday; it’s his highest mark in nearly a year.
Yet there are real risks to the train derailment story, which took place in the traditional swing state of Ohio that has in the last decade seemingly turned against the president’s party. Fallout from the train derailment has also hit the swing state of Pennsylvania.
Republicans have made pointed arguments directed toward both Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited East Palestine on Thursday. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has called on the secretary resign.
Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), who represents the area where the derailment occurred, gave Buttigieg an “F” for his response to the toxic chemical spill in an interview with Fox News on Feb. 18.
“I mean, he hasn’t shown up,” Johnson said.
Trump, who is running for president next year, clearly saw a political opportunity in his visit, meeting with first responders, local officials and Ohio Republicans and promising to deliver his namesake water to the community.
Separately, reporters peppered White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre with questions about why Biden does not yet have plans to visit Ohio. She argued there was no reason to “struggle” over why the president hasn’t been there yet.
Buttigieg himself admitted Thursday that he could have spoken out sooner about the crash.
At the same time, both Buttigieg and Jean-Pierre sought to go on offense on Thursday, focusing on what the administration has done while taking to task Trump and other Republicans for opposing safety regulations.
Buttigieg called on the former president to support the Biden administration reversing Trump-era deregulation, saying “we’re not afraid to own our policies when it comes to raising the bar on regulation.”
Jean-Pierre said attacks on Buttigieg were in “bad faith” because former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao wasn’t attacked when similar types of chemical spills occurred during her time as head of the agency.
“There’s been a lot of bad faith attacks on Secretary Buttigieg. Why we believe it’s bad faith is if you remember, Elaine Chao … she was the head of the Department of Transportation and when there was these types of chemical spills, nobody was calling for her to be fired,” Jean-Pierre said.
“It is pure politics,” she added.
Jean-Pierre spent much of Thursday’s press briefing focused on visits this week by both Buttigieg and Environmental Protection Agency head Michael Regan.
Buttigieg’s visit aligned with the release of the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) initial findings from the investigation into the derailment that tentatively corroborated reports that a wheel bearing severely overheated ahead of the accident.
The Transportation Department also defended the timing of the secretary’s trip, saying Buttigieg wanted to “go when it is appropriate and wouldn’t detract from the emergency response efforts.”
The White House and the Transportation Department have both said that the EPA is taking the lead on the federal response to hold Norfolk Southern accountable, noting those officials arrived at the site early on Feb. 4, hours after the crash.
Others argued that Buttigieg represented the White House well when he went to East Palestine.
“His presence represents not only transportation, but also represents the White House’s commitment to this issue,” said Brandon Neal, an Obama Transportation Department alum and former Buttigieg campaign adviser.
The White House in recent days has blamed Republicans for pushing to loosen railway and environmental regulations. Railway companies themselves have spent millions on lobbying efforts to kill bills in Congress and in state legislatures that aim to implement any further safety standards.
Andrew Bates, a deputy White House press secretary, accused Republicans of laying the groundwork for the situation in East Palestine by opposing tougher regulations on the rail industry and seeking to rollback environmental rules around drinking water.
Abdullah Hassan, an assistant press secretary at the White House, shared a readout on Wednesday detailing what the Federal Railroad Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration have been doing on the ground to aid an investigation into the derailment.
“While some have been exploiting the people of East Palestine for their own self-interest, others have been doing the actual work of holding Norfolk Southern accountable for the company’s mess,” Hassan tweeted.
Biden lost Ohio in 2020 to Trump, who received more than 53 percent of the vote. A Democrat hasn’t won Ohio in a presidential race since 2012, but Democrats were surprisingly competitive there in last year’s Senate race, where Republicans spent big to ensure GOP Sen. J.D. Vance defeated former Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan.
East Palestine is located in Columbiana County where 71 percent of voters backed Trump in 2020. It also sits near the border of Pennsylvania, another high-stakes state crucial to victory.
At least one Democrat has joined the Republican chorus of criticizing the Biden administration for the timing of its response.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), whose state also sits on the border with Ohio, said in a statement that the Biden administration had failed to “step up to the plate.”
“[I]t is unacceptable that it took nearly two weeks for a senior Administration official to show up,” Manchin said the day Regan visited the site on Feb. 16. “The damage done to East Palestine and the surrounding region is awful and it’s past time for those responsible to step up to the plate.”
This week, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the only other GOP-declared 2024 contender besides Trump, quipped: “Biden’s over in Poland but shouldn’t he be with those people in Ohio?”
East Palestine mayor: Biden Ukraine visit ‘biggest slap in the face’
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched with the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:34 p.m. EDT.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched with the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
Beautiful afternoon for SpaceX to launch the CRS-26 mission from LC-39A, bound for the International Space Station
SpaceX Falcon 9 launced their latest batch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites from SLC-40, on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at 9:25 p.m. EDT Wednesday. This marked the first east coast use of "Just Read The Instructions" for the first stage landing.
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SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:34 p.m. EDT.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with the Axiom-2 mission headed to the ISS at 5:37 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center