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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Safely Landed On Mars On Feb. 18, 2021. The Rover’s Mission Is To Find Signs Of Life, Including Ancient Microbial Life On Mars. The Rover Would Characterize Mars’ Geology And Past Climate, Including Being The First Mission To Collect And Store Martian Rock And Regolith, Paving The Way For Human Exploration.

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An American, Renee Capozzola, Has Become The First Female To Win The Title Of “The Underwater Photographer Of The Year.” She Won The 2021 Competition With Her Photo Submission, Entitled “Sharks’ Skylight,” Which Was Taken On The Pacific Island Of Moorea In August. Her Photo Bested 4,500 Submissions From Competitors Across 68 Countries.

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Sarah Thomas, 42, Will Make Another History As She Will Be The First Female To Officiate In The Super Bowl LV On February 7, 2021, In Tampa, Florida. She Previously Made History In 2015 As The First Female To Be Hired Full Time As An Official In The The National Football League (NFL). Congrats To Her.

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Women Are Standing Out And Holding Their Own. This Time, Rashida Jones Will Be The First Black Woman To Head A Major Cable News Network. She Will Be Appointed The President Of MSNBC On February 1, 2021, After The Current President, Phil Griffin, Steps Down. MSNBC Is The Third Ranked Cable News Network Behind CNN And Fox News.

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The Chinese New Submersible, Named Fendouzhe/Striver, Is The Deepest Diving Manned Submersible In The World, After Descending ~10,909 Metres To The Bottom Of The Challenger Deep Of The Marina Trench, Just Shy Of The 10,927 Metres World Record Set By The American Explorer In 2019. Fendouzhe Also Beamed Up The World’s First Live Video From Challenger Deep.

Yes, We Have Had 14 Black Astronauts Visit The International Space Station (ISS) During Its Construction. But Their Stay Was For A Short While. This Time, NASA, Via Sending Victor J. Glover–A Navy Commander And Test Pilot To ISS For A Longer, 6 Months, Stay, Will Make Him The First Black Astronaut To Stay This Long.

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A Woman, For The First Time, Has Been Appointed As The General Manager (GM) Of A Team Sports Operation In A Major Men’s Professional League In North America. Ms. Kim Ng, Age 51, Who Will Also Become The First Asian-American GM In The Baseball Major League History, Was Appointed As The General Manager For The Miami Marlins.

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Scientists Have Developed Microscopic Robots That Can Walk. The Robots Are So Small That 10 Of Them Could Fit Into A Fullstop At The End Of A Sentence. And As Such, Scientists Hope To, In The Future, Inject The Robots Into The Body, As Medical Tools Designed, For Example, To Hunt And Destroy Cancer Cells.

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Women Have Made Their Mark In NASA. And Now, Another Woman, Astronaut Jeanette Epps, Is Set To Build On That By Becoming The First Black Woman To Live And Work For A Long Term (6 Months) Aboard The International Space Station–She Is Scheduled To Launch In 2021. Astronaut Mae Jemison, In 1992, Became The First Black Woman In Space. Cool!

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A Former NFL Player, Jason Wright, Age 38, Has Been Named The First Black President Of A Team In The National Football League (NFL). Jason Is Now The President Of Washington’s Football Team, Formerly Called The Washington Redskins. The Team, After Decades Of Backlash Over Its Former 87-Year-Old Name, Changed Its Name In July Of 2020.

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The UAE Is Not Slowing Down After Recently Sending A Probe Mission To Mars. The Country Has Now Become The First To Startup, On The Gulf Coast East Of Qatar, A Nuclear Power Plant In The Arab World. The Barakah Fission Nuclear Plant, In Addition To Their Heavily Invested Solar Power, May Aid The Country Meet Its Sustainable Power Goals.

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Has Successfully Launched, From Japan, Its First Mars Probe To Study Mars’ Weather And Climate. The “Hope” Probe, Launched On An H2-A Rocket From Tanegashima Spaceport, Is Expected To Arrive On Mars In February 2021. The Arrival Is Also Expected To Coincide With The 50th Anniversary Of The UAE’s Formation.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Carry The First Helicopter To Fly On Mars. Once The Rover Dismounts In Mars’ Jezero Crater In February 2021, And Locate A Flat, Unobstructed Area (33 x33 Feet), The 1.8 kg Helicopter, Named “Ingenuity,” Will Be Released And Flown. Ingenuity Will Inspire Future Helicopters To Assist Rovers Or Astronauts.

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NASA Honored Its First Black Female Engineer, And One Of The 3 Black Women, Mary Jackson, Depicted In the Movie, The Hidden Figures. The Agency Did This By Naming Its Headquarters (HQ) In Washington, D.C After Her. NASA Also, In 2019, Renamed The Street In Front Of The HQ The ‘Hidden Figures Way” To Commemorate The Trio’s Achievements.

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Kathy Sullivan, A Former USA Astronaut Is A True TrailBlazer. She Was The First American Woman To Walk In Space In 1984 and Now, She Is The First Woman To Reach The Deepest Point In The Ocean, At About 35,853 Feet Under The Western Pacific Ocean. This Also Makes Her The 8th Person To Reach The Lowest Point In The Marianas Trench.

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More Innovations For Moon/Mars Travel And Colonization. NASA Plans To Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Oxygen Using A Tool Made Of Gold. The Tool, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), Will Be Attached To Perseverance Rover For Moon Launch In July 2020. Moxie Will Help Create Liquid Oxygen Propellant For Return Flights.

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Nasa Astronaut Christina Koch Has Set A New Record Of Staying The Longest, For Any Woman, At The International Space Station (ISS). She Spent 328 Days On The Station Surpassing The Previous Woman, Fellow American Peggy Whitson. Her Stay Was 12 Days Short Of Scott Kelly’s, The All-Time USA Record Holder. Cool!

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Researchers May Be On The Verge Of Developing Bunched And Compacted Crop/Fruit That Mature Quickly And Can Be Grown In Urban Environments Or Places Not Suitable For Plant Growth. Scientists Hope To Accomplish This Via Gene Editing Of Crops, Like Tomatoes, So That They Look Like A Bouquet But With Roses Replaced By Fruits. Cool!

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Researchers, Inspired By How Lotus leaves Repel Water, Have Innovated A Self Cleaning Plastic Surface That Repels All Forms Of Bacteria, Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs And Other Dangerous Bacteria In, E.g., Hospitals And Kitchen Settings. The Surface Could Also Be Used In Food Wraps Or Shrink-Wrapped Onto, E.G, Door Handles.

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Doctors Used A New Method, Ultrasound, Administered Via Rod Shaped Device Inserted Into The Urethra, To Treat Prostate Cancer With 80% Success Rate And 65% Of Men Showing No Prostate Cancer Sign After A Year. This Is A Most Welcome Development Because Surgery And Radiation Treatments Can Leave Men Incontinent Or Impotent.

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