FRESNO, Calif. â The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California s Native American population â the nation s largest â would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding.
Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline.
That was more than four decades ago.
Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered settlement that would have pumped millions of dollars into California for Native American health care, the state s share remains stunningly underfunded by the Indian Health Service, Native leaders say. Their claim has been corroborated by government records and, most recently, a 2019 letter to IHS co-signed by then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, urging the agency to repair this longstanding inequity.
SpaceX on Thursday successfully landed its prototype Starship rocket during a test flight in Texas. It was quite a big deal – the four previous prototypes all went up in a ball of flames.
The news was confirmed by Elon Musk on social media, tweeting “Starship landing nominal!” Here’s why the successful launch is such a big deal.
Starship flight test – What you need to know
What is a Starship test flight?
During testing, the rocket shuts off its three Raptor engines one by one as it peaks during the flight. It then tips sideways before plunging back down to Earth.
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Patrick Rowan’s Skywatch: Recalling pioneers of spaceflight
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., posing here in his Mercury flight suit, was born in New Hampshire in 1923. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944, he served in World War II and became a Navy test pilot. His May 5, 1961, launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital mission was the first U.S. manned spaceflight. (NASA photo)
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With the surprising award last month to SpaceX to land the first humans on the moon in half a century, NASA’s moon plan is suddenly very hard to ignore.
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