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Bay Area-based company Intuitive Machines has selected SpaceX as the company that will deliver two of its payloads to the moon, according to a Jan. 13 press release.
There are five awarded Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions to the lunar surface over the next three years. Intuitive Machines has two of the missions, and both will be launched by SpaceX, the release states.
Intuitive Machines is developing Nova-C, a lunar lander that is on track to launch in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to a company spokesperson. A second mission is said to be already scheduled for 2022. Nova-C will deliver NASA payloads to the lunar surface, and the scientific data Nova-C gathers during its 13.5 days of life on the moon will help NASA in its mission to land humans on the moon as early as 2024, the first time since the 1970s.
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State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco has been named chair of the California Senate Mental Health Caucus, “which focuses on improving California’s resources for mental health and substance abuse disorders,” according to a press release from his office. Wiener has also been named Legislator of the Year by the California Marriage and Family Therapists for his work on Senate Bill 855, which “has made California a nationwide leader in mental health care,” according to the press release.
Zoe Fertik of Palo Alto has been accepted into the Jewish Women Scholars’ Writing Fellowship, a new program of Yeshivat Maharat, which is best known for ordaining women as Orthodox clergy, and Sefaria, the online repository of Jewish texts. “The shelves of the Beit Midrash are overwhelmingly dominated by books and articles written by men we want to change that,” says the fellowship website. “The fellowship aims to elevate Jewish women’s scholarship by b
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A top healthcare VC predicted microbiome drugs would rebound in 2021 as part of Business Insider s year-end roundup of healthcare predictions.
Though the biotech industry s infatuation with the promise of the bacteria in our gut dates back years, research failures and the 2019 uBiome scandal previously chilled investors interests.
More established microbiome companies have continued the search to prove the microbiome can bear fruit for patients and investors alike.
Seres Therapeutics, currently valued at $2.4 billion, is the space s clear frontrunner, having announced success last August in a late-stage study for one of its microbiome drug candidates.