NASA orbiter snaps photo of Japanese moon lander wreckage

A private Japanese space company said its moon-landing crash earlier this month happened for a different reason than that of its first spacecraft two years prior.  A faulty altitude sensor doomed its second Hakuto-R mission attempt to land on the moon on June 5, according to Tokyo-based ispace. Now it’s bringing in outsiders to make…

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Bruce Blakeman’s Kafkaesque Albany sojourn

DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 31 BLAKEMAN’S DAY IN COURT: Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman’s battle to access the state’s new public campaign finance program made its way to an Albany County courthouse this afternoon. The legal fight is over hypertechnical matters like whether duplicate copies of a “PCF-22” form submitted separately should be considered…

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