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Nicole Virzi: Glamorous PhD Student Accused of Killing Friend’s Newborn Baby While Babysitting Him Could Face Death Penalty if Convicted [Video]

Her father, Peter J. Virzi, is a prominent cardiologist associated with Mt. Sinai Doctors in Manhattan and holds certification from the American Board of Internal Medicine.

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NASA Selects SpaceX to Bring Back Astronauts in a Big Blow to Boeing [Video]

NASA has chosen SpaceX to return astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams from the ISS after Boeing’s Starliner capsule encountered technical issues. The astronauts will now return on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in February 2025, extending their stay by several months. This decision highlights Boeing’s ongoing challenges with its spacecraft, which will return uncrewed.

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NASA to decide if Starliner is safe to bring Williams, Wilmore home [Video]

NASA said Thursday it will decide this weekend whether Boeings new capsule is safe enough to return two astronauts from the International Space Station, where theyve been waiting since June. Administrator Bill Nelson and other top officials will meet Saturday. An announcement is expected from Houston once the meeting ends.Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, a Massachusetts native, launched aboard Boeings Starliner on June 5. The test flight quickly encountered thruster failures and helium leaks so serious that NASA kept the capsule parked at the station as engineers debated what to do. SpaceX could retrieve the astronauts, but that would keep them up there until next February. They were supposed to return after a week or so at the station.If NASA decides SpaceX is the way to go, Starliner would return to Earth empty in September.Engineers are evaluating a new computer model for the Starliner thrusters and how they might perform as the capsule descends out of orbit for a touchdown in the U.S. Western desert. The results, including updated risk analyses, will factor into the final decision, NASA said.Boeing said earlier this month that extensive testing of thrusters in space and on the ground demonstrated Starliners ability to safely return the astronauts.It was the company’s first astronaut flight, delayed for years by a multitude of capsule problems. Two previous Starliner test flights had no one on board.NASA hired Boeing and SpaceX a decade ago, after the space shuttles retired, to ferry its astronauts to and from the station. SpaceX has been at it since 2020.