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NASA is set to launch a “flying saucer” into space in order to test a more spacious spacecraft designed for long-haul missions to Mars.
NASA says it has succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, says NASA chief Bill Nelson in a press conference from Washington. SOUNDBITE
Novak Djokovic's family ends a press conference when reporters ask about the world number one returning a positive Covid test on December 16. The claim has stirred controversy after it emerged Djokovic attended a gathering that same day for the Serbian national postal service, as well as a young players' event in Belgrade on December 17. SOUNDBITE
Boeing launches its Starliner capsule on a crewless eight-day journey to the International Space Station and back, a key test mission for NASA's plans to end US dependence on Russia for space rides. IMAGES
In their quest for proof, UFO watchers have turned their attention to a 17th-century Georgian fresco of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, because of two strange objects painted in the upper part of the Byzantine style painting which look suspiciously like flying saucers. Artist Grigorii Guldzhavarashvili depicted two semicircular objects with three tails just under the hands of Jesus, and they are at the center of the speculation.