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Meet the first astronauts for NASA’s commercial space flight program

NASA has named the four astronauts who will embark on the first test flights of SpaceX and Boeing’s commercial crew spacecraft. Astronauts Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita (“Suni”) Williams will train with the companies’ own test pilots for the maiden voyages of the Dragon crew capsule and the CST-100. All four astronauts have prior spaceflight experience, having flown on the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station.

CEO, chairwoman offer to take E-Commerce China private

(Reuters) – Chinese online book and media retailer E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc’s chief executive, Guoqing Li, and Chairwoman Peggy Yu Yu offered to take the company private. The all-cash offer of $7.812 per American Depositary Share represents a 20 percent premium to the stock’s Wednesday closing price of $6.51, the company said on Thursday. (The story adds dropped word “percent” in second paragraph and media packaging code) (Reporting By Arathy

Golf R’nt You Jealous? Volkswagen Unveils 330-hp Golf Race Car Concept

– Someone had better get a wet vac to our office, stat, because upon seeing Volkswagen’s just-unveiled Golf-based race car concept, drool flowed in torrents. Torrents, people! Besides looking like a GTI that’s gone on an intake bender, pumped up its guns at the gym, and popped some roll-cage Viagra, the Golf’s most notable feature is that it’s just a Golf, sort of. There is no “R” badging anywhere, and