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Four astronauts are returning to Earth after nearly five months on board the International Space Station. NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers along with Russian and Japanese astronauts are scheduled to splash down off the Southern California coast. It is the first NASA-sponsored crew to land in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to fly up its Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites, but Elon Musk’s company just knocked out its second launch in less than a