FR: SpaceX faces critical test to prove it can safely ferry astronauts to International Space Station ((foxnewsreporting__)) ((lubuntu at wor1))

About 90 seconds into launch, SpaceX will trigger the launch escape system on the Falcon 9 rocket, designed to carry the capsule away from the rocket; Kristin Fisher reports

OO: James Carafano says Iranian ayatollah’s praise for attack on US troops appears aimed at a domestic audience ((outnumberedover___)) ((lubuntu at wor1))

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei lashed out ‘American clowns’ as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years; reaction and analysis from retired Army Lt. Col. James Carafano, vice president for the Heritage Foundation’s Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy