A black man has been shot dead by police in the US state of Minnesota as protests continued over the police killing of a black man in Louisiana. Philando Castile was shot in his car as he reached for his driving licence, his girlfriend said in a Facebook Live video taken during the aftermath. It follows the death of AltonSterling, who was shot dead by police during an incident in Baton Rouge on Tuesday ...Getty Images. ....
The long-awaited Chilcot Report was finally released today, examining the UK’s involvement in the Iraq War and occupation. Unfortunately, on the most important question, the report’s conclusions are all but silent. why did the UK go to war? ... He shows a remarkable lack of curiosity about the political factors behind the move to war, especially given the weakness (even at the time) of the WMD case ... Most important of these is oil....
Seeing a pornographic content may be a warm and exciting welcome for a few, but definitely not when it is cited on an official site of a brand as big as NASA. Yes, NASA’s official Twitter handle for Kepler and K2 was hacked and the hacker left after replacing the profile photo with a woman’s pic, renamed the account name and also tweeted a photo of a woman’s rear end dressed only in lacy red underwear ... ....
Today, July 6, the state commission at the Baikonur launch site approved the lists of the main and the backup crews of the first manned transportation spacecraft of the new series Soyuz MS and confirmed the readiness of the integrated space launch system Soyuz-FG/Soyuz MS and its ground infrastructure for the launch under the ISS program....
the new-series spacecraft Soyuz MS is off on its maiden flight July 7, 2016. Today, July 7, the first transportation spacecraft of the new series Soyuz MS with the new expedition crew was successfully put into a low Earth orbit and is headed for the International Space Station (ISS) ... The first launch of Soyuz MS spacecraft was carried out using the two-day rendezvous profile in order to run the checks and tests on various systems....
NASA launches upgraded Soyuz aircraft with three crew members. The launch marked the debut flight of a next-generation RussianSoyuz capsule, currently the only vehicles capable of ferrying astronauts and cosmonauts to and from the space station, a $100 billion project of 15 countries ...Soyuz rocket with Denmark's first ......
Baikonur time, July 7), and in a brand new version of the RussianSoyuz capsule that has been significantly upgraded and modified. The launch of the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft was carried live on NASA TV starting approximately an hour before the usual on time liftoff from Baikonur ... And precisely because it’s a heavily modified Soyuz, they will take the slow road to the ISS....
The Soyuz MS spacecraft blasts off from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan... A three-member multinational crew has blasted off aboard a RussianSoyuz rocket from Kazakhstan for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed ... The crew's Russian Soyuz capsule is scheduled to arrive at the station, which ......
According to the members of the new crew the current ISS crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and a NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams were looking forward to gifts and letters from Earth which would be delivered onboard Soyuz MS ... The new-series spacecraft Progress MS and Soyuz MS were developed as a result of a radical upgrade of Progress M and SoyuzTMA spacecraft....
A NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut, and a Japanese astronaut are about to spend the next two days aboard a tiny Soyuz capsule bound for the International Space Station... The Soyuz, which ferries astronauts and cosmonauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), has a vacuum-like toilet that sucks urine out of the space environment and into a collection bin ... It's because the Soyuz toilet is ......
A multinational crew blasted off aboard an upgraded RussianSoyuz rocket from Kazakhstan early on July 7 for a two-day trip to the International Space Station... The launch marked the debut flight of a next-generation Soyuz capsule, currently ......
A three-member multinational crew blasted off aboard a RussianSoyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on Thursday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed ... The crew's Russian Soyuz capsule is scheduled to arrive at the station, which orbits about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, at 0412 GMT Saturday (12.12 am EDT) to begin a four-month mission....
The Soyuz MS spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Three astronauts blasted off today from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome towards the International Space Station in an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft ... Features of the new Soyuz series include upgraded boosters, an improved ......
Used in the space travel is an upgraded Soyuz, called Soyuz MS, featuring improved solar batteries, an enhanced orbit control system based on the Global Positioning System, and a smaller and lighter automatic docking system ... The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Takuya Onishi and other astronauts blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Thursday....