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while dozens of Republicans opposed it.17 just hours before it was set to shutdown.

sending it to the Senate ahead of a Friday deadline.averting a government shutdown and punting a spending fight in Congress until early next year.All but two Democrats voted to pass the measure.

Funding for eight other appropriations bills.Why is the government facing another shutdown?Congress is responsible for passing a dozen appropriations bills that fund many federal government agencies for another year before the start of a new fiscal year on Oct.

agriculture and energy until Jan.

It does not include supplemental funding for Israel or Ukraine.The equipment will be tested for six months as a technology demonstration.

And an experiment carried out inside the station will use 40 rodents to better understand the combined effects of spaceflight.navigation and tracking systems.

So were hoping the results of this study can be used to inform female astronaut health during long-duration spaceflight and even female reproductive health here on Earth.NASA This is using optical communication to use lower power and smaller hardware for sending data packages back from the space station to Earth that are even larger and faster than our capabilities today.