(AP) - Roger Mudd, the longtime political correspondent and anchor for NBC and CBS who once stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president, has died. He was 93.CBS News says Mudd died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia.During more than 30 years on network television, starting with CBS in 1961, Mudd covered Congress, elections and political conventions and was a frequent anchor and contributor to various specials. His career coincided with the flowering of television news, the pre-cable, pre-Internet days when the big three...…(AP) - Roger Mudd, the longtime political correspondent and anchor for NBC and CBS who once stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president, has died. He was 93.CBS News says Mudd died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia.During more than 30 years on network television, starting with CBS in 1961, Mudd covered Congress, elections and political conventions and was a frequent anchor and contributor to various specials. His career coincided with the flowering of television news, the pre-cable, pre-Internet days when the big three...WW…

NASA balloon research By (Gray News) – NASA is planning to use some of the world’s oldest aeronautical technology to do some of its most-advanced studying of the stars. A balloon as a big as a football stadium will be used to lift a specialized telescope over Antarctica in 2023. , which stands for astrophysics stratospheric telescope, will be carried by the big balloon to an altitude of nearly 25 miles. A football stadium-sized balloon will carry a cutting-edge telescope into the stratosphere to observe light invisible to the naked eye. The ASTHROS mission could pave the way for future...…NASA balloon research By (Gray News) – NASA is planning to use some of the world’s oldest aeronautical technology to do some of its most-advanced studying of the stars. A balloon as a big as a football stadium will be used to lift a specialized telescope over Antarctica in 2023. , which stands for astrophysics stratospheric telescope, will be carried by the big balloon to an altitude of nearly 25 miles. A football stadium-sized balloon will carry a cutting-edge telescope into the stratosphere to observe light invisible to the naked eye. The ASTHROS mission could pave the way for future...WW…