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Around 150 years ago, a ship sank in Lake Huron.

On board, a massive shipment of rye seeds.

I said, is that actually what's in that ship?

And is there any left?

And he said, absolutely.

That boat is full of nothing but grain.

It's Friday, November 22nd.

Happy Science Friday.

I'm sci-fri producer Rasha Iridi.

Later in the episode, we're going to dive into how a Michigan-based team is trying to revive the shipwrecked rye and use it to make whiskey.

But first, let's check in on this week's Science News.

Here's CyFri's Kathleen Davis.

On Tuesday, Rocket Company SpaceX conducted another test flight of its starship spacecraft.

The rocket did launch successfully, but the company decided not to try some landing acrobatics.

Joining me to talk about that and other stories from this week in science is Cyfry's own Charles Berkwist.

Hey, Charles.

Hey, Kathleen.

So tell me more about this launch.

Yeah, so this was the sixth test flight of SpaceX's Starshipcraft.

This was uncrewed, so no people aboard, and it lasted about an hour. And the big question that they were looking at here

was whether or not they could restart the engines well in orbit, which obviously is something

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