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This week on Sunday Morning : At Home (May 23)
COVER STORY: The Great Reshuffling: How the real estate market exploded
As the pandemic shifted our work lives into working-from-home lives, it also accelerated trends among homebuyers toward more affordable locales. As a result, competition for houses in smaller cities, like Boise, Idaho, has reached never-before-seen heights. Correspondent David Pogue talks with realtors across the country about their unprecedented sales, and with new homeowners whose migrations from larger metropolitan areas helped fuel a residential bull market.
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ARCHITECTURE: A visit to historic Lyndhurst Mansion
The historic Lyndhurst Mansion, designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis, is a prime example of the Gothic Revival style, located on 67 beautifully-landscaped acres in New York s Hudson Valley. Sunday Morning host Jane Pauley offers viewers a tour.
Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace has raised $75 million in funding as the company moves closer to its inaugural rocket launch.
Firefly, which was founded in 2014, is an aerospace company working to develop a group of launch vehicles and in-space services. The company has contracts with multiple commercial and government customers, including NASA and General Atomics. Firefly said it estimates its valuation at more than $1 billion.
The funding round was led by DADA Holdings, and included investment from Astera Institute, Canon Ball LLC, Reuben Brothers Limited, SMS Capital Investment LLC, Raven One Ventures and the XBTO Ventures.
The company has said its goal is to become the preeminent end-to-end space transportation company in the small space industrial sector. Firefly is currently focused on enabling commercial and exploration missions from low earth orbit to the Moon.
The mission would land astronauts on the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years. Today, I m very excited, and we are all very excited to announce that we have awarded SpaceX to continue the development of our integrated human landing system, NASA s Human Landing program manager Lisa Watson-Morgan said in a call with reporters Friday afternoon.
It s unclear where the lunar lander will be built, but SpaceX has a significant presence in far South Texas, with an operations site near Boca Chica that includes a production facility and a launch site. Ultimately the lunar lander will be launched from space, but it s not yet clear from which Earth-based location the craft will hitch a ride into space.