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An incredible human drama in space exploration ended with the miraculous safe return of the three Apollo 13 astronauts on this day in history, April 17, 1970. “In Mission Control, pandemonium erupted,” NASA reports of the joy that overwhelmed the command center after the mission’s capsule splashed down in the South Pacific shorty after noon Central Standard Time, just four …

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is planning to propose new legislative action that would threaten to cut National Public Radio’s (NPR) federal funding if passed, prompted by the news that it suspended an editor who went viral for exposing the outlet’s partisan uniformity in its newsroom. The Tennessee Republican is weighing a variety of legislative options to take …

Another special cosmic event is to occur this year, and it could be a “once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity,” according to NASA. It’s a nova explosion located in a star system 3,000 light years away from Earth and astronomers predict it will be visible to the “unaided eye” sometime in 2024. “Unfortunately, we don’t know the timing of this as well as …