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2. Autonomous spaceport drone ship - Wikipedia

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   An autonomous spaceport drone ship ( ASDS) is a modified ocean-going barge equipped with propulsion systems to maintain precise position and a large landing platform. SpaceX developed these vessels to recover the first stage (also called the booster) of its launch vehicles. By recovering and reusing these boosters, SpaceX has significantly ...

3. COVID-19 pandemic on Diamond Princess - Wikipedia

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   712. Deaths. 7 to 14. The Diamond Princess is a British-registered luxury cruise ship that is operated by Princess Cruises, a holiday company based in the United States and Bermuda. In February 2020, during a cruise of the Western Pacific, cases of COVID-19 were detected on board. The vessel was quarantined off Japan for two weeks, after which ...

4. Ship breaking - Wikipedia

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   Removing steel plates from a ship using cranes [1] at Alang Ship Breaking Yard in India. Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction ...

5. JD Vance - Wikipedia

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   JD Vance. James David " JD " Vance[ b] (born August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, and Marine veteran who has served since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he is its nominee for vice president in the 2024 presidential election. After high school, Vance joined the US Marine Corps ...

6. USS Admiral W. S. Benson - Wikipedia

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   USS Admiral W. S. Benson (AP-120) began as an unnamed transport, AP-120, that was laid down on 10 December 1942 at Alameda, California by the Bethlehem-Alameda Shipbuilding Corp., under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 678). She was named Admiral W. S. Benson (AP-120) on 20 October 1943 and launched on 22 November 1943; sponsored by Miss ...

7. Prison ship - Wikipedia

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   Prison ship. The beached convict ship HMS Discovery at Deptford. Launched as a 10-gun sloop at Rotherhithe in 1789, the ship served as a convict hulk from 1818 until scrapped in February 1834. [ 1] Prison ship Success[ 2] at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former ...