SpaceX Soars Through New Milestones In Test Flight Of The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built – SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever built launched Thursday and achieved key objectives laid out for its fourth test flight that demonstrated the vehicle’s reusability. The highly anticipated event was the company’s second uncrewed test of 2024. [cnn]
Virginie Viard, Who Succeeded Karl Lagerfeld At Chanel, Leaves Fashion House – Virginie Viard, the creative director of Chanel who replaced Karl Lagerfeld after his death, is leaving the fashion house. [abc]
US Judge Orders Ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon To Report To Prison By July 1 – Bannon, convicted of contempt of Congress in 2022, remains defiant as judge orders him to serve four-month sentence. [aljazeera]
Boeing’s Astronaut Capsule Arrives At The Space Station After Thruster Trouble – Boeing’s space capsule has arrived at the International Space Station after encountering thruster trouble. Docking was delayed to fix four thrusters on the Starliner capsule that went down Thursday as the two NASA test pilots closed in on the space station. [ap]
Citizen Activists Take On ‘Destructive’ Solar Power Plants In France’s Provence Region – Citizen activists in southeastern France’s Alpes-de-Hautes-Provence region have been campaigning for two years against the growing number of solar power parks in a protected natural area around the Lure mountain. [france24]
Patek Philippe Is Not Happy Sylvester Stallone Flipped That $5.4 Million Grand Master Chime – Sly selling his watch after a few years of ownership seems to have angered Thierry Stern and the collecting community. [robbreport]
Another Japanese Town To Build Fence Around Scenic Bridge To Block Mount Fuji View – The scenic bridge in Shizuoka prefecture aligns directly with the outline of Mount Fuji and has become a social media hotspot in recent months. [ndtv]
