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With 99% of ballots counted, incumbent state Sen. William N. Brownsberger held a 61-vote lead over challenger Daniel Lander (11,997 to 11,936), keeping the possibility of a recount in the tight Massachusetts Senate primary. Lander mounted a high-profile challenge backed by Warren and Wu, while Brownsberger leaned on his long tenure in the chamber.
Persis Yu defeated incumbent Mike Rush in the Norfolk and Suffolk state Senate district, while William Brownsberger held a narrow lead over Daniel Lander in the Suffolk and Middlesex district; Nick Collins won the 1st Suffolk district, signaling a mixed bag for Mayor Wu’s endorsements and underscoring a Boston-suburban split in the area’s 2026 elections. Additional results included Kevin Hayden’s re-nomination as Suffolk County DA and AP’s call of Ed Markey’s U.S. Senate seat, with Steve Lynch set to return to Congress.
Progressive candidates endorsed by New York City's democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept this week's Democratic primaries, with Brad Lander defeating incumbent Dan Goldman in the 10th District and other Mamdani-backed challengers winning in the 7th and 13th Districts, signaling a leftward shift within the party amid debates over the Israel-Gaza war.
Brad Lander and Claire Valdez, both endorsed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, won their Democratic primary races for Congress, signaling strong influence for Mamdani’s left-wing slate; Darializa Avila Chevalier trailed Adriano Espaillat in a tight contest in the 13th District, as the mayor’s volunteers and allies pressed their case across the city.
Prediction-market traders on Kalshi assign roughly 54% odds that Mamdani-backed Brad Lander (NY-10) and Claire Valdez (NY-7) win, with Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13) as the underdog; a 28% chance all three win and 20% only Lander wins, while in NY-12 Kalshi favors Micah Lasher (74%) amid AI-regulation ad battles around Alex Bores; outcomes are verified by the NY State Board of Elections.
NASA’s Artemis III is planned as the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo, using the Space Launch System and Orion to reach the Moon and a commercial lunar lander to descend to the surface and return to lunar orbit for a rendezvous with Orion and a trip home, a milestone toward a sustainable, multi‑mission lunar presence with a mix of NASA, commercial, and international partners; exact timing depends on the development and certification of the landing system and related infrastructure.
Former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Dan Goldman reiterated they would have voted against the Park Slope Food Coop’s Israel goods boycott, even after members approved it 67-31 and lowered the threshold to a simple majority. Goldman labeled the move antisemitic, while Lander rejected that framing and urged focusing on local issues and a two-state solution in the Middle East.
NASA is using a full-scale cabin mock-up of Blue Origin's Mark 2 lunar lander at Johnson Space Center to run human-in-the-loop tests—covering mission scenarios, spacesuit checkouts, and simulated moonwalks—as Artemis targets a 2028 moon landing, with an uncrewed Endurance MK1 in testing and Artemis III planned to dock with a lander in 2027.
In the NYC mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander have announced a cross-endorsement, criticizing Cuomo's record and emphasizing their shared progressive platform. Cuomo remains the front-runner despite scrutiny, while Mamdani and Lander focus on uniting voters to avoid past electoral mistakes.
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, leading progressive candidates in the NYC mayoral race, will cross-endorse each other to boost their chances against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo using the ranked-choice voting system, aiming to consolidate support and prevent Cuomo's victory.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested a landing system for a hypothetical future mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa. The lander, equipped with a sky crane mechanism, slowly lowered onto simulated terrain resembling Europa's surface. The legs of the lander adjusted and bent to maintain stability, and the craft would stop its descent when encountering terrain to lock the legs and keep the spacecraft level. NASA plans to perform several flybys of Europa with the Europa Clipper, and a lander mission to the moon is highly anticipated.
India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission may be over as attempts to wake up the lander and rover have been unsuccessful. The frigid lunar night lasted two weeks, and with the new day, hopes of revival are diminishing. Although the mission is considered a success for being the first to land in the Moon's south pole region, the chances of the spacecraft awakening in the Sun are decreasing. The lander and rover were not designed to withstand the extreme cold temperatures, and their survival remains uncertain.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to issue a contract opportunity to design a new lander for the ExoMars mission, following the loss of the Russian lander due to the severed partnership between Russia and ESA. The mission, originally scheduled for 2020, is now expected to launch no earlier than 2028. To save the mission, ESA has approved a record-breaking budget of 16.9 billion Euros ($17.6 billion) over three years, with hopes of receiving additional funding from NASA. The ExoMars mission includes the Trace Gas Orbiter and the Rosalind Franklin rover, which is designed to search for signs of Martian life.