Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Thursday, May 29, 2025. And we begin with SpaceX under the microscope, but not slowing down after its third consecutive failed test flight. The company's massive starship lost control Tuesday night, shortly after launching from the newly named town Starbase in Texas. According to CNN, the spacecraft made it into sub-orbit, but a stuck payload door kept it from deploying test satellites and a leak caused it to tumble out of the sky and break apart over the Indian Ocean.

Mission Control also lost contact with the booster itself before it slammed into the Gulf.

The company is undaunted. Posting on X, with the test like this, success comes from what we learn, and this latest attempt will help us improve Starship's reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary.

The next test flight could be in as few as three weeks.

Stay in line or get a fine. That's the word from airline officials in Turkey, who are now

requiring passengers to pay up if they stand up before it's their rose turned to deplane.

The Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation says people can also be fined

for unclicking seatbelts, opening overhead compartments, or crowding the aisle when a plane is still

taxiing. According to the Washington Post, a significant increase in those behaviors prompted

officials to institute the fines for passenger and baggage safety and security.

No word yet on how big the fines will be, but a Turkish TV station reports

it could be 2,603 Turkish lira, or the equivalent of about $67 US dollars.

While schools in the U.S. and UK are dialing up cell phone bans, one European country is taking the opposite approach.

In the small Baltic nation of Estonia, one of the top scoring countries in math, science, creative thinking, and reading skills, students are asked to use devices in class, and in September will be given

their own AI accounts. According to the Guardian, Estonia's new initiative called AI Leap will give

students and teachers world-class artificial intelligence tools and skills by training teachers

and technology and providing free access to AI for 58,000

students and 5,000 teachers by 2027. Estonian education officials say the schools may ditch

essays for homework and the memorize repeat-apply learning model used for hundreds of years and

rely instead on oral exams to develop

higher cognitive skills. Their goal to make Estonia one of the smartest AI-using nations,

not just the most tech saturated. Russian teams will remain banned from the 2026 Winter Olympics, according to the International

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