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Elon Musk, chief of SpaceX, tweeted after the company launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station that “it’s starting to feel kinda normal to reuse rockets” and that’s “how it should be.”
Mike Patterson, president of a new Topeka, Kan., museum, a 13,000-squarefoot homage to Evel Knievel, the late motorcycle daredevil who became a global pop icon in the 1970s, said memorabilia on loan from collectors includes the man’s restored 1974 tractor-trailer unit dubbed “Big Red.”
Dalsh Veve, 35, a New York City plainclothes police officer, managed to fire his service weapon even as he was being dragged by a driver in a stolen car for more than two city blocks, striking one of the vehicle’s occupants, police said, after which the car crashed and was abandoned while Veve survived but was in critical condition.
Alex Honnold, a 31-yearold rock climber, became the first person to climb alone to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without using ropes or safety gear.
Ivory Keith Nails, 17, was arrested after the truck he was driving hit a Dallas police patrol car, sending the vehicle into a creek bed where at least 10 bystanders helped free the squad car’s driver, who was treated for broken bones.
Marco Taviani, a researcher in Italy, along with a researcher in Sweden named a recently discovered ancient clam species “Archivesica aharoni,” after Paul Aharon, a longtime University of Alabama geology professor whom Taviani called a friend and colleague.
Lawrence O’Toole, St. Louis’ interim police chief, asked for the community’s help in ending violence after a shooting last week in which four people died, including the parents of a 7-year-old girl, who was critically injured in the shooting and died Sunday.
Art Cohn, co-founder of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, said the museum had posterity in mind when advancing plans to preserve and display a Revolutionary War gunboat called the Spitfire, which sank in 1776 but was discovered at the bottom of the lake about two decades ago.
Esther Solondz’s new sculpture, a honey-colored, 7-foot-tall cone called the “bee palace,” functions as both a work of art and a nesting site for wild bees at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.