Space & Earth Science

1. Trump says withdrawing Musk ally as nominee to head NASA

   US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was withdrawing his nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, a close ally of Elon Musk, to lead space agency NASA.

2. Vienna calling: Strauss's 'Blue Danube' waltzes into outer space

   Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci‑fi classic "2001: A Space Odyssey".

3. Elon Musk promises more risky launches after sixth Starship failure

   What goes up must come down, and earlier this week yet another of SpaceX's Starships, the biggest and most powerful type of rocket ever built, came back down to Earth in spectacular fashion. In the sky above the Indian Ocean, it exploded.

4. Vienna calling: Strauss's 'The Blue Danube' to waltz into outer space

   Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi film classic "2001: A Space Odyssey".