All this week’s space news in one place [Video]
►
Categories
Home Based Business

All this week’s space news in one place [Video]

It’s been a busy week for space travel and exploration this week. From returning capsules to stranded astronauts, maiden voyages and telescope images here’s a look at all of our space stories from this week:After a troubled voyage so far, Boeing’s empty Starliner capsule made its way home.Boeings Starliner capsule undocked from the International Space Station Friday evening concluding its nearly three-month stay in space. But its flying with an empty cabin, leaving behind two test pilots who must now remain on the station for another five or six months.The Starliner left its docking port at the space station just after 6 p.m. ET on Friday, according to NASA. The capsule spent about six hours free-flying through orbit as it slowly made its descent toward home.Boeing’s first mission in space comes with a cliffhanger ending, as its two astronauts stay aboard the International Space Station until next year.For months, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return was in question as engineers struggled to understand the capsules problems.Boeing insisted after extensive testing that Starliner was safe to bring the two home, but NASA disagreed and booked a flight with SpaceX instead. Their SpaceX ride wont launch until the end of this month, which means theyll be up there until February more than eight months after blasting off on what should have been a quick trip.NASA celebrates the 25th anniversary of an observatory with some birthday ‘songs,’ if you will.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released three clips of what is called “sonification” of three galactic images from the Chandra X-ray telescope.”Sonification is a process that translates astronomical data into sound, similar to how digital data are more routinely turned into images,” according to NASA.An exclusive interview with a fresh astronaut and a surprise from her fellow astronauts.Astronaut Jeanette Epps has been on the International Space Station since early March, helping with research for the future.”We lifted off, and it was an amazing feeling,” Epps told 11 News in an exclusive video conference interview. “It was truly exhilarating.”Epps is already in an elite club of people who have traveled to space or have been on the International Space Station. Narrow that down to the number of Black women who have done so, and you’ll find just a few.SpaceX is helming a maiden voyage of four civilian astronauts with Polaris Dawn if the delays don’t stop it.The mission, which will launch from Kennedy Space Center, is the first of three planned spaceflights part of the Polaris program. Two of the four members on the flight are expected to leave their capsule and conduct a spacewalk, the first private citizens to do so. After several delays already, it looks like Polaris’ launch is now scheduled for Monday, Sept. 9, at the earliest.Here’s everything you need to know about the historic mission taking off from Florida soon:A Challenger astronaut and public school teacher is immortalized with a statue in her home state.On Monday, just as she did 38 years ago, Christa McAuliffe made history as the first female Granite Stater to be set in stone in front of New Hampshire’s Capitol. McAuliffe, who was a social studies teacher in Concord, was chosen to be the first private citizen in space. On Jan. 28, 1986, McAuliffe boarded the Challenger Space Shuttle, which tragically exploded just 73 seconds into the flight, killing her and six other crew members on board.

Typhoon Yagi has killed at least 4 and injured 78 others [Video]
►
Categories
Home Based Business

Typhoon Yagi has killed at least 4 and injured 78 others [Video]

Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country.Related video above: Severe weather across the country Yagi, described by Vietnamese meteorological officials as “one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade,” made its way to the Southeast Asian country after it left three people dead and nearly a hundred others injured in the Chinese province of Hainan.The typhoon landed at Vietnam’s coastal provinces of Quang Ninh and Haiphong with wind speeds of up to 149 kilometers per hour (92 miles per hour), state media reported. Before landing, strong winds felled a tree, killing a woman in the capital, Hanoi, local media said Saturday.Quang Ninh is home to the UNESCO World Heritage site Ha Long Bay, known for its many towering limestone islands. Hundreds of cruises were canceled at the popular site before the typhoon landed, according to local media. Haiphong is an industrial hub, home to large factories, including EV maker VinFast and Apple supplier Pegatron.The typhoon has also triggered power outages in large parts of Quang Ninh and Thai Binh provinces.Earlier, the government issued several alerts, and those vulnerable to floods or landslides were evacuated. Four airports were shuttered, including in Hanoi and Haiphong.Authorities pruned trees in Hanoi to make them less susceptible to falling, but wind and rain knocked over several, along with billboards in northern cities. Local media reported that many moored boats were swept out to sea.”I am going to stay inside and try and stay safe with my family,” said Bao Ngoc Cao, 24, a businesswoman from Hanoi. She added that the last time a typhoon this strong hit Vietnam was in 2013 and that storms usually weaken before reaching the capital. “But we still need to be prepared.”On Friday afternoon, Yagi struck the Chinese city of Wenchang in Hainan province with wind speeds of up to about 245 kph (152 mph) near its center. Authorities said the typhoon left three people dead and injured at least 95 others and that it affected over 1.2 million people as of noon Saturday, according to the local Global Times newspaper.Some 420,000 Hainan residents were relocated before the typhoon’s landfall. Another half a million people in Guangdong province were evacuated before Yagi made a second landfall in the province’s Xuwen County on Friday night.Meanwhile, the meteorological observatory of the city of Haikou downgraded its typhoon signal from red to orange on Saturday, as it moved further away.Before leaving Hong Kong, Yagi forced more than 270 people to seek refuge at temporary government shelters on Friday, and over 100 flights in the city were canceled due to the typhoon. Heavy rain and strong winds felled dozens of trees, and trading on the stock market, bank services and schools were halted.Yagi was still a storm when it blew out of the northwestern Philippines into the South China Sea on Wednesday, leaving at least 20 people dead and 26 others missing, mostly in landslides and widespread flooding and affecting more than 2.3 million people in northern and central provinces.More than 82,200 people were displaced from their homes in Philippine provinces, and classes, work, inter-island ferry services and domestic flights were disrupted for days, including in the densely populated capital region, metropolitan Manila.Warm waters in oceans power storms, and as they become warmer because of climate change, a U.N. climate change report warned that intense typhoons are becoming more common, especially in Southeast Asia.___Soo reported from Hong Kong. Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.