(Oct. 11) A booster rocket fails during this morning’s launch of a Soyuz rocket in Kazakhstan forcing an emergency landing. American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin made it back safely.
Author: Carmen Roberts
Hurricane Michael Devastates the Panhandle
(Oct 10) Hurricane Michael hits Florida like a freight train hurling in with 155 mile-an-hour winds, the strongest ever to hit the panhandle.
NASA’s probe to the sun is proceeding right on target.
(Aug 18) A week ago today NASA’s Parker Solar Probe lifted off for a seven-year journey around the sun. NASA says the probe’s now more than 3 million miles from earth, performing well and hitting its first milestones. It’s deployed its high-gain antenna for communications, powered up an instrument suite, and is using its thrusters to slow and stabilize the flight. All this as the spacecraft aims for a gravity assist from Venus to make its first kiss with the sun on November 5. It’ll do 23 more solar flybys over the years to help scientists uncover the secrets of our sun. Carmen Roberts. Fox News
Heros Arrive Home
(Aug 2)A reception for the fallen. Vice President Mike Pence at the receiving ceremony in Hawaii to welcome the presumed remains of 55 US servicemen back to US soil. These are just a fraction of the more than 7,000 MIAs from the Korean War.
All the people missing in California’s Carr Fire now accounted for. More than 20 were missing because many had evacuated without their mobile phones. The fire near Redding has burned more than 1,000 homes.
It’s a Girl!
(July 7) Rare Southern Rhino born at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro.