Half of eligible Texans now fully vaccinated for COVID-19
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Walter Newsome reacts as he receives his vaccine at Christian Assistance Ministries.Jessica Phelps /Staff photographer
Texas has reached a new milestone in the effort to vaccinate people against COVID-19: As Monday, more than 50 percent of Texans eligible for the shot those age 12 and older have been fully vaccinated.
The current vaccine rate of 50.1 percent, reported by the state on Tuesday, is a far cry from the original goal set by President Joe Biden’s administration 70 percent of eligible Americans fully vaccinated by the holiday weekend. In recent months, immunization rates have slowed considerably, forcing local officials to rely on incentives to bring people in for shots.
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UT San Antonio moon rock researchers seeking the ideal recipe to build lunar bases
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Exploration Architecture Corporation founder and CEO Sam Ximenes poses Wednesday, May 19, 2021, in his Port San Antonio lab with some of the basalt powder with which his company works. XArc received a $50 million NASA small business grant to evaluate lunar landing pad construction using technology to melt moon soil, which contains a large amount of basalt, to build landing pads for spacecraft.William Luther, Staff / William Luther
Making strong bricks on Earth is hard. Making strong bricks on the moon is harder.
But some researchers in a University of Texas at San Antonio laboratory are working to make it possible. They’re studying how to melt moon rocks, and the knowledge they glean could someday help humans build lunar outposts.