The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Crew of NASA’s earthbound 1 simulated Mars habitat emerge after a year:
The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth. The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA’s first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming out of the artificial alien environment Saturday around 5 p.m. Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones entered the 3D-printed habitat on June 25, 2023, as the maiden crew of the space agency’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog project.
2 Authorities say 2 rescued, 1 dead, 1 missing after boat capsizes on Lake Erie:
Authorities suspended the search for a missing boater in Lake Erie after rescuing two others and pulling another person from the water Saturday who later died. The two, a man and a woman, were wearing life jackets. A Coast Guard crew rescued another man, who was unresponsive and later pronounced dead at a Clevelandarea hospital. Coast Guard crews found a 23-foot boat in the area capsized and partially submerged.
3 Jon Landau, Oscar-winning “Titanic” and “Avatar” producer, dies at 63:
Jon Landau, an Oscarwinning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on three of the biggest blockbusters of all time, “Titanic”and two“Avatar”films, has died. He was 63. Landau’s family announced his death Saturday. No cause of death was given, though Variety.com reported it was cancer.
4 New British PM seeks to improve on “botched” trade deal:
New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset relations at home and abroad. During a visit Sunday to Edinburgh that he billed as an“immediate reset”with the regional governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Starmer said he would seek to improve the U.K.’s “botched”trade deal with the European Union.“I do think that we can get a much better deal than the botched deal that (former Prime Minister) Boris Johnson saddled the U.K. with,”he said in reference to the pact negotiated after Brexit.