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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Former Weekend Editor

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    The Biden administration earmarks $292 million to reduce US airplane emissions.

    The FAA has announced that applications for the Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition (FAST) grants are now open. It’s offering $245 million in funding for sustainable aviation fuel production and other infrastructure projects. The administration also approved $47 million in FAST grants for low-emission aviation technology projects.

    Both blocks of funding are part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. They’re supposed to “help aviation reach net-zero by 2050” as part of a goal Biden laid out by executive order in 2021. However, the UN recently said governments should move this goal forward by a decade.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    A look inside the new Apple Watches.

    Don’t bother trying to open up your brand-new Apple Watch S9 or Apple Watch Ultra 2iFixit has done it for you.

    The quick jaunt through the watches’ guts will look familiar if you’ve ever seen one of iFixit’s Apple Watch teardowns, but there are some small differences to be found inside, like a higher-capacity, hard-shell battery in both.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    The OSIRIS-REx capsule is in the bag.

    NASA reports that the OSIRIS-REx capsule “has been bagged” and is flying suspended from a helicopter to the space agency’s clean lab to recover samples gathered from the Bennu asteroid in 2020.

    When it gets to NASA’s on-site clean room, scientists will remove the canister containing the sample to be opened at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Tuesday.

    Check out this gallery of screenshots from NASA’s live coverage. NASA had a photographer on site, so we’ll probably get some much nicer shots of the process soon.

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    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    NASA is now recovering the capsule containing the Bennu asteroid sample.

    A team is preparing to take the OSIRIS-REx capsule back to NASA’s portable clean lab to collect the Bennu asteroid sample it gathered three years ago, according to NASA’s live coverage.

    Team members have also placed flags in the area to note potentially interesting environmental samples to collect in the area around the capsule for later examination.

    A group of four people stand near the OSIRIS-REx capsule.
    The NASA recovery team examines the OSIRIS-REx capsule prior to beginning official recovery operations.
    Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge