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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy</strong> - Is a controversial curriculum, entrenched in New York City’s public schools for two decades, finally coming undone? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibes-based-literacy">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mikhail Gorbachev, the Fundamentally Soviet Man</strong> - The last leader of the U.S.S.R. attempted to modernize and reform his country, even as he failed to imagine it as anything but an empire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mikhail-gorbachev-the-fundamentally-soviet-man">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden’s Student-Debt Plan Could Chip Away at the Racial Wealth Gap</strong> - Loan forgiveness and other measures don’t solve the problem of rising tuition costs, but they could help some Black families start to catch up. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-student-debt-plan-could-chip-away-at-the-racial-wealth-gap">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Trump Supporters Came to Hate the Police</strong> - At the Capitol riot and elsewhere, MAGA Republicans have leaped from “backing the blue” to attacking law-enforcement officials. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-trump-supporters-came-to-hate-the-police">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When Summer Becomes the Season of Danger and Dread</strong> - Is this the end of another summer, or the end of summer as we know it? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/when-summer-becomes-the-season-of-danger-and-dread">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>Queen Elizabeth II and the long 20th century</strong> -
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Queen Elizabeth II at the welcome ceremony for the president of the Italian Republic in London, on March 15, 2005. | Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
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Why the queen was history’s greatest spectator.
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On Thursday afternoon, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Queen Elizabeth II <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2022/9/8/22846451/queen-elizabeth-ii-death-96-obituary-reign-monarchy">died</a> at 96. She occupied the British throne for 70 years, making her the UK’s longest-reigning monarch.
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“Occupied” is perhaps the key word here. While the queen’s official powers were greater than many might think in a constitutional monarchy — <a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/appointment-prime-ministers">according to the letter of the English law</a>, the monarch can choose to appoint or dismiss the prime minister, for instance — in practice they were never exercised to their fullest extent, nor would they have ever been.
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The queen’s position, if not the continued existence of the British monarchy, was dependent on remaining outside the actual political sphere. The British government of the day ruled in her name from Westminster, but it is <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/british-election-can-queen-vote-royal-family-prince-william-kate-middleton-622958">considered unconstitutional</a> for the monarch to even vote.
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As a result, Elizabeth spent seven decades in one of the world’s most high-profile positions… without taking direct political action. She met everyone worth meeting, traveled <a href="http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/queen-elizabeth-million-miles/index.html">over a million miles and visited over 115 countries</a>, welcomed <a href="https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20220908150544/the-queen-prime-ministers-during-reign/">15 British prime ministers to office</a> — all without doing anything other than being her often silent royal self. That made her, in a sense, history’s greatest spectator.
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And the history she witnessed was more than just the cumulative weight of 70 years. During those decades the world changed as it never has before — sometimes for the worse, often for the better — and Queen Elizabeth II observed it all from a singular perch.
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The end of empire
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When her father King George VI died on February 6, 1952, the future queen was at a remote game-viewing camp in Kenya — so remote, in fact, that she didn’t receive word of his death and her ascension <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/08/queen-elizabeth-treetops-kenya">until four hours after the fact</a>.
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Today, of course, news of the queen’s death spread across the internet instantaneously — despite efforts to control the news, it <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/08/queen-death-fake-news-twitter/">soon leaked out over Twitter</a>. And Kenya is no longer a British colonial territory, as it was in 1952, but a country of its own that will soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence.
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Over the course of her reign, Britain went from <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/08/map-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-british-empire/">more than 70 overseas territories</a> — like Hong Kong and Singapore in East Asia, Yemen in the Middle East, and Guyana in South America — to what is mostly a handful of sparsely populated islands. Even the United Kingdom itself may be destined for dissolution, with a whole Ireland <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/the-inevitability-of-a-united-ireland/">a real possibility</a> and Scotland once again <a href="https://www.gbnews.uk/news/sturgeon-tells-truss-independence-is-a-decision-for-scots-voters-not-the-new-pm/361943">threatening an independence vote</a>.
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As it was when she was crowned in 1953, Britain is still a nuclear power, and still holds one of the five permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. But six years after the Brexit vote, Britain’s international influence is at a nadir; or at least it would be, if it didn’t seem likely to fall even further as the economically troubled nation girds for what is shaping up to be a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/jpmorgan-analysts-say-uk-cost-of-living-crisis-only-just-begun">cost-of-living crisis this winter</a>.
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To be clear, the evaporation of empire that Elizabeth witnessed is nothing to lament. If self-determination — the right of people to decide their own destiny in the international order — is sacrosanct, then the fact that <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110853580/legacy-of-violence-documents-the-dark-side-of-the-british-empire">more than 700 million people</a> at the time of Elizabeth’s coronation effectively lived under the rule of a foreign government was a historical wrong that had to be righted.
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70 years is a long time
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Anyone who sits on a throne for 70 years will witness a changing world. But Elizabeth’s reign was so unique because the seven decades she spent as queen were so unique.
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Compare Elizabeth to another historical monarch who reigned for almost as long: King Louis XIV of France, the fabled “Sun King.” (Louis was technically king for longer than Elizabeth was queen, but he spent the first eight years of his reign under a regency. I’ll let the scholars of royalty sort it out.) Between Louis’s ascension to the throne in 1643 and his death in 1715, per-capita GDP <a href="https://clio-infra.eu/Countries/France.html">barely budged in France</a>. Progress, as we know it, was essentially stagnant, as it was just about everywhere in the world.
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During Elizabeth’s time, however, per-capita GDP in the United Kingdom more than tripled, part of a wave of economic growth that began in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, and truly took off globally in the postwar era. Life expectancy in the UK was just under 70 years in 1953 — today it is <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/life-expectancy">north of 80</a>.
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And the changes were even greater over these decades in many of the developing countries that once made up the British Empire. Shortly before the queen’s death, India — which spent nearly a century under direct British rule — <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-overtakes-uk-to-become-fifth-largest-economy-in-the-world/article65844906.ece">overtook</a> the UK as the world’s fifth-largest economy.
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Much of that progress was the result of technological changes that Elizabeth witnessed firsthand. She was the first British monarch to have her coronation televised live, sent her first <a href="https://people.com/royals/on-this-day-in-royal-history-queen-elizabeth-sent-the-first-ever-royal-email-in-1976/">email in 1976</a>, and her <a href="https://time.com/3536368/queen-elizabeth-first-tweet/">first tweet in 2014</a>. Her first Christmas message to her subjects was broadcast over the radio — her final one could be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjxdkYhY64o">streamed on YouTube</a>.
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Britain in 1953 was an overwhelmingly white country, one where women had <a href="https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women">only had fully equal voting rights for 25 years</a>. The UK today is a multi-ethnic democracy, where one recent candidate for prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is a <a href="https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/rishi-sunak-biography-1642162759-1">Hindu whose parents were East African immigrants of Indian descent</a>, and where the eventual winner, Liz Truss, is the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2022/09/06/liz-truss-becomes-britains-third-female-prime-minister/7999686001/">country’s third female PM</a>.
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Homosexuality was only legalized in Britain in 1967, more than a decade into her reign. In 2018, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of Elizabeth’s, became the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/lord-ivar-mountbatten-james-coyle-wedding-gay-royal-family-a8554721.html">first British royal to marry</a> their same-sex partner.
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If part of the queen’s appeal was her sheer longevity, that longevity mattered all the more because it unfolded over a period of unprecedented change. The 18th-century France that existed at the end of Louis XIV’s reign would have seemed hardly different to the young king more than 70 years before, in terms of technology, economy, and social mores.
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The United Kingdom of 2022 — and indeed the world as a whole — would be unrecognizable to the 25-year-old woman who was anointed at Westminster Abbey in 1953. And the pace of change to come, for King Charles III and his successors, seems only likely to accelerate. One of those changes, in the UK at least, will assuredly be the monarchy itself. As Dylan Matthews <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9294955/queen-elizabeth-constitutional-monarchy">wrote</a> in 2015, constitutional monarchies can have real value, ensuring one figure is of politics without being in them. But that role may have died with the queen. The trappings of monarchy may be transferrable to Charles, a figure all too familiar to the British public, but likely not the spirit embodied by Elizabeth.
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Queen Elizabeth II did not cause any of these changes of her reign, but she did witness them from a uniquely privileged vantage. And her passing is a reminder of just how long 70 years really is — especially these 70 years.
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<li><strong>NASA’s latest moon mission is the dawn of a new space age</strong> -
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Christina Animashaun/Vox
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NASA has postponed the launch of Artemis 1, which is supposed to set the stage for the space agency’s return to the lunar surface.
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NASA has once again delayed its historic Artemis I mission to the moon, after engineers discovered <a href="https://www.space.com/artemis-1-launch-scrub-hydrogen-leak">a leak in the rocket’s fuel system</a>. While the Artemis I mission won’t land on the lunar surface, the trip itself will be the farthest <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion">a vehicle designed for human astronauts</a> has ever traveled into space.
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There won’t be any humans on NASA’s big trip, but there will be three astronauts: Helga, Zohar, and <a href="https://www.space.com/nasa-moonikin-artemis-1-mannequin-on-orion-capsule">Moonikin Campos</a>. They’re high-tech manikins — that’s the term for human models <a href="https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/story/2021-01-12/a-word-please-the-word-manakin-crosses-this-editors-eyes">used in scientific research</a> — filled with sensors that will test how the human body responds to space travel. Helga and Zohar are designed to measure the effects of radiation on women’s bodies in space, and Moonikin Campos will sit in the commander’s seat to track just how bumpy a voyage to the moon might be for future human crew members. While these manikins might not look particularly impressive on their own, they will play a critical role in NASA’s ambitions to build a new pathway to the moon and, eventually, send astronauts to Mars. They’re also just one of several science experiments aboard the mission meant to better our understanding of space travel.
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Liftoff was originally scheduled for August 29, but NASA postponed the launch after engineers encountered several issues, including a nearby thunderstorm and problems with chilling one of the rocket’s engines. NASA once again delayed the mission and rescheduled for September 2, because of the fuel system leak. Now, the agency says the mission could go forward in late September, but it could be delayed until October.
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As soon as NASA does figure out fixes, the Space Launch System (SLS), the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-moon-rocket-artemis-mission/">most powerful rocket</a> NASA has ever built, will lift off, carrying the Orion spacecraft on its nose. Once the vehicle leaves orbit, Orion will travel past the moon, and then <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion">thousands of miles beyond it</a>, before turning around and heading back to Earth — a 1.3 million-mile journey that will last 42 days. You can watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLD0Lp0JBg">launch here</a>.
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“This is a good demonstration that the rocket works the way it’s supposed to,” Wendy Whitman Cobb, a professor at the US Air Force’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, told Recode. “It will give NASA a little bit more confidence for crewed missions coming up in the next couple of years.”
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Artemis is the next generation of moon missions. It’s part of NASA’s broader ambitions for lunar exploration, which include astronaut treks across the moon’s surface, a lunar human <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-outlines-lunar-surface-sustainability-concept">habitat</a>, and a new space station called <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/gateway">Gateway</a>. Artemis I also sets the groundwork for the next two missions in the Artemis program: Artemis 2 is scheduled to send humans on a similar trip around the moon in 2024, and Artemis 3 will make history by landing the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface sometime in 2025, at the earliest. All of the research happening on Artemis I — including Helga, Zohar, and Moonikin Campos — is meant to prepare for those later missions.
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All aboard Artemis 1
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NASA’s ride to the moon, the SLS, was designed to carry an extremely heavy payload. The rocket is just a few meters taller than <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-the-space-launch-system-k4.html">the Statue of Liberty</a>, and it can generate <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html">8.8 million pounds of thrust</a>. Like other launch systems, the SLS is made up of several different stages, each of which plays a role in overcoming Earth’s gravity, breaking through the atmosphere, and reaching outer space. To make that happen, the SLS includes <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/to-the-moon.html">twin solid rocket boosters</a>, as well as a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/infographics/corestage101.html">212-foot tall core stage</a> filled with <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/fs/sls.html">more than 700,000 gallons</a> of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. It’s <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/tag/core-stage/">the largest core stage</a> NASA has ever made.
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A view of the the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard from the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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After takeoff, the boosters will fire for <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/fired-up-engines-and-motors-put-artemis-mission-in-motion.html">about 2 minutes</a> before separating from the vehicle, falling back toward the ground, and landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Eight minutes in, the core stage will do the same. At that point, the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) will take over and circle the Earth once. About 90 minutes into the flight, the ICPS will give Orion the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion">“big push”</a> it needs to start flying in the direction of the moon, and then fall away.
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While technically new, the SLS is based on older technology. Several of its components, including <a href="https://www.space.com/artemis-1-space-shuttle-hardware">its main engines</a>, are either from or based on systems used by the NASA Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011. And while other space launches have started using reusable, or at least partially reusable, rocket boosters, the SLS will only fly once. This differentiates SLS from Starship, the super-heavy launch vehicle that SpaceX is designing for moon missions. SpaceX, which beat out Blue Origin for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/science/spacex-moon-nasa.html#:~:text=Elon%20Musk's%20company%20bested%20Jeff,astronauts%20to%20the%20lunar%20surface.">a $2.9 billion contract</a> to build NASA’s lunar landing system, expects Starship’s first orbital test flight to take place sometime in <a href="https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-orbital-test-flight-launch-window#:~:text=The%20company%20is%20apparently%20targeting,1.&amp;text=The%20first%20orbital%20test%20flight,window%20that%20opens%20on%20Sept.">the next six months</a>. Congress’s decision to fund SLS is an ongoing <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/former-nasa-official-on-trying-to-stop-sls-there-was-just-such-visible-hostility/">sore spot</a> within the space industry because the project went <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/11/nasas-sls-moon-rocket-is-2-years-behind-and-billions-over-budget-internal-report-finds/">billions over budget</a> and was delayed several times, and because private companies are now developing less expensive alternatives.
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“Congress has put up with the over-budget, behind schedule, because SLS has kept the money and jobs flowing to key congressional districts,” explains Whitman Cobb.
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There is broad-based support for Orion, which NASA designed specifically for Artemis missions, as well as potential trips to nearby asteroids or <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html">Mars</a>. The spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin and, from the outside, it looks like a giant turkey baster with wing-like panels coming out from its side. Orion is home to the Artemis crew module, which is where astronauts traversing to and from the moon will eventually spend their time. Once the spacecraft is vetted for human astronauts, the crew module is expected to offer various space travel amenities, including <a href="https://www.cnet.com/science/moon-bound-nasa-astronauts-get-nifty-sleeping-bags-for-snoozing-in-space/">sleeping bags</a>, an assortment of new NASA-recipe <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-food-bars-will-keep-orion-weight-off-and-crew-weight-on">space food bars</a>, and a revamped <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/boldly-go-nasa-s-new-space-toilet-offers-more-comfort-improved-efficiency-for-deep-space">space toilet</a> that’s designed for zero gravity and people of all genders.
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On this mission, the primary passengers will be a collection of science experiments. One test involves the NASA manikins Zohar and Helga, which are made of <a href="https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/Radiation_for_dummies">38 slices of plastic</a> that are meant to imitate human tissue, as well as more than <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/artemis-i-space-radiation-research-to-help-moon-mars-explorers/">5,600 sensors and 34 radiation</a> detectors. There’s a <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/5/14/18306893/apollo-50-nasa-spaceflight-human-body-twin-study">high level of radiation in space</a>, which is a source of ongoing concern that future astronauts could face heightened cancer risk, especially as space trips become longer and more ambitious. Both of these manikins were designed with breasts and uteri because women tend to be more sensitive to radiation. Zohar will also wear a specialized protective vest called AstroRed, which engineers are evaluating as a potential way to protect astronauts from radiation, including during <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/orion-passengers-on-artemis-i-to-test-radiation-vest-for-deep-space-missions">solar flares</a>. Helga won’t receive a vest, and will allow NASA to study how much the AstroRed actually helped.
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Orion is also carrying <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02293-8">an experiment</a> that’s meant to test how yeast responds to radiation. Researchers plan to store freeze-dried yeast underneath one of the Orion crew seats, and then expose the yeast to fluid over the course of three days in space. Once Orion lands back on Earth, scientists will analyze the yeast’s DNA to study how it fared. The experiment could yield insight into how humans might stay healthy in space during future trips.
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A version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is hitching a ride, too. NASA is testing Callisto, a combination of customized hardware and software that Amazon, Cisco, and Lockheed Martin designed <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/callisto-technology-demonstration-to-fly-aboard-orion-for-artemis-i">to communicate with astronauts</a>. The test will enable mission control to send audio and video messages to a tablet aboard the Orion capsule, where a version of Alexa will receive the message and share a response.<strong> </strong>While the tech might sound a little like HAL from <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>, the engineers say the system is meant to provide assistance and companionship.
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“Callisto is a standalone payload onboard the Orion spacecraft, and it does not have any control over flight control or other mission-critical systems,” says Justin Nikolaus, a lead Alexa experience designer at Amazon.
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Other aspects of Artemis I’s payload are more sentimental. A plush doll version of the Shaun the Sheep character from the Wallace and Gromit franchise will travel on Orion. So will a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/snoopy-to-fly-on-nasas-artemis-i-moon-mission/">Snoopy doll</a> outfitted in an astronaut costume, along with a pen nib that Charles M. Schultz used to draw the Peanuts series, wrapped in a comic strip. Mementos from the <a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-080322a-artemis-1-official-flight-kit-ofk.html">Apollo 11 mission</a>, which landed the first humans on the lunar surface in the 1960s, are also going, including a tiny sample of moon dust and a piece of an engine.
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Beyond the moon
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Some of Artemis I’s most important research projects won’t be returning to Earth. The mission includes plans to launch 10 miniature satellites, called CubeSats, into the moon’s orbit. These satellites will collect data that NASA, along with private companies, could eventually use to navigate on and around the moon.
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One satellite, <a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=LUNIR">LunIR</a>, will study the safety of the lunar surface with infrared imaging, producing information that could influence where <a href="https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission-cubesats">astronauts will eventually travel</a>. One satellite, called <a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=L-ICECUBE">the Lunar IceCube</a>, will attempt to detect lunar sources of water, which NASA could eventually use as a resource. Another satellite, <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout">NEA Scout</a>, will head to a small, nearby asteroid, a side trip that could inform future crewed missions to other asteroids. The satellites will be launched by another component, called the Orion Stage Adapter, only after the spacecraft is <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/international-partners-provide-cubesats-for-sls-maiden-flight">a safe distance away</a>.
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The Orion spacecraft loaded into a NASA aircraft at the Space Florida-operated Launch and Landing Facility runway at the Kennedy Space Center on November 21, 2019.
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These satellites are a reminder that NASA is interested in far more than just visiting the moon. The Artemis program is laying the groundwork for an unprecedented level of activity on the lunar surface, including a human base camp, a series of nuclear reactors, and a mineral mining operation. NASA has expressly said that it wants to develop a lunar economy, and the space agency has also established the Artemis Accords, a set of principles for exploring the moon that <a href="https://www.space.com/artemis-accords-moon-space-exploration-importance">more than 20 countries</a> have now joined.
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Eventually, NASA plans to turn the moon into a pit stop on a much more ambitious journey: a human mission to Mars. Right now, it seems like that could happen sometime in the late 2030s. But while many of these plans are still far out, it’s clear that the Artemis program is far more than a repeat of the Apollo program.
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“Apollo was a political act in the context of the Cold War to demonstrate US national power to the world. It was explicitly a race with the Soviet Union to be first to the moon. Once we were first to the moon, the reason for continuing went away,” explains John Logsdon, the founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. “Artemis is intended as the first program in a long-term program of human exploration.”
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Of course, all of this hinges on the Artemis I mission running smoothly. NASA still needs to evaluate how well SLS and Orion work together during liftoff. The space agency also needs to study how well Orion survives its descent through the atmosphere, which we won’t know for quite some time. If all goes well, the Orion capsule, along with its motley payload of science experiments and galactic tchotchkes, will return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean more than a monthafter takeoff.
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<em><strong>Update, August 31, 11:20 am ET:</strong></em><em> This story was originally published on August 27. It has been updated with details about NASA rescheduling the Artemis 1 launch, and more information about the Callisto payload. </em>
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<em><strong>Update, September 3, 3:52 pm ET: </strong></em><em>This story has been updated with additional details regarding NASA’s decision to delay the Artemis 1 launch for a second time.</em>
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<em><strong>Update, September 9, 3:45 pm ET: </strong></em><em>This story has been updated to note that the Artemis launch might not take place until the end of September or beginning of October. </em>
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<li><strong>When fine dining is a horror show</strong> -
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“The Menu” is one of fall’s most anticipated movies. It’s also part of a long lineage of horror films all about eating.
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<a href="https://www.eater.com/23329064/the-menu-horror-movie-restaurant-scary-movie-tropes-eating">https://www.eater.com/23329064/the-menu-horror-movie-restaurant-scary-movie-tropes-eating</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Skyfall and Judy Blue Eyes show out</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mysuru Saturday races cancelled</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sucre, Mirra, Angel Bliss and Pinnacle Point impress</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>India-A v New Zealand-A ‘Test’: No play on third day</strong> - Second time entire day’s play is washed out</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Italian GP | De Vries makes F1 debut after Albon is taken ill</strong> - Williams said Alex Albon was diagnosed with appendicitis ahead of Sunday’s Italian GP, and would make way for 2019 Formula Two and 2021 Formula E champion Nick de Vries</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Andhra Pradesh: TTD official denies misuse of Srivani Trust funds</strong> - ‘They are being used for construction and renovation of temples in the two Telugu-speaking States’</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bengal colleges finding it hard to fill vacancies in undergraduate courses</strong> - Reasons could include the desire to study outside the State for better prospects, indiscriminate growth of institutions, and economic impact of pandemic</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Traffic regulations in the district today</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>India needs weak PM and ‘khichdi’ govt, says Owaisi</strong> - The AIMIM will field candidates in the Gujarat Assembly polls which are likely to be held in December.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Chief Secretary appreciates Tiruvannamalai Collector for eco-friendly initiatives</strong> - ‘They can be emulated in other districts’</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kharkiv offensive: Ukraine enters key town as counter-attack gathers pace</strong> - Forces enter Kupiansk - a key Russian supply hub that fell in the early days of the invasion.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine has retaken 1,000 square kilometres in a week - Zelensky</strong> - Kyiv says a lightning counter-offensive has recaptured vast swathes of territory in its south and east.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sweden election: Gang shootings cast shadow over vote</strong> - Violent crime is a top issue for voters going to the polls on Sunday.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Heavily pregnant medic held in Russian prison</strong> - The family of Mariana Mamonova are calling for her release before her due date at the end September.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: UN says blackout threatens Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant</strong> - The head of the UN nuclear agency says the situation at a Russian-held nuclear plant cannot continue.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The rest of PAX West 2022’s standout indie games: Rhythm madness, bloody combat</strong> - Without big companies like Microsoft, Sony, indies had more room to shine. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1879881">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Polio declared a disaster emergency in New York after more poliovirus found</strong> - The declaration will expand vaccine access and require vaccine data reporting. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1880198">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities</strong> - With polymorphic encoding and a multistage infection chain, Shikitega is hard to detect. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1880148">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Queen Elizabeth II led a low-tech life—but knighted plenty of sci-tech figures</strong> - An Ars list of technologists and scientists honored by the late Queen Elizabeth II. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1879817">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nvidia’s flagship AI chip reportedly 4.5x faster than the previous champ</strong> - Upcoming “Hopper” GPU broke records in its MLPerf debut, according to Nvidia. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1880072">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><strong>A truck driver lives a long, healthy life. After millions of safely driven miles, he dies peacefully in his bed.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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When he arrives in Heaven, Saint Peter greets him and says the he now may have any rig he desires. The driver describes his dream rig and it immediately appears before him.
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Saint Peter tells him to drive to the closest truck stop and wait for his load. The driver hops in the cab and heads out quickly arriving at the closest truck stop, and what does he see.
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Parked semis: Millions of them from the 1920s, the 30s, the 40s and so one. Every decade for the last century is represented, clear up to the 2022 models. All in pristine condition.
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He walks into the diner and sees all of his favorite food available, his favorite TV show is on the monitor. He sits at an empty seat with a group of other drivers, orders his meal from the sweetie-pie waitress, and turns to his fellow truckers. “I was wondering, why is everyone here? Aren’t there any loads to haul?”
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One old, grizzled driver looks at him and says, “I arrived here back in 1920 and haven’t had to leave this diner since I got here. Like everyone else, we’re still waiting for the first dispatcher to make it to Heaven.”
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edit: standard “well, this really blew up” Thanks.
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For all my family and friends that have been behind the wheel, The world thanks you. For all non-truckers, just this <a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51i-EJSJREL._AC_SX466_.jpg">little reminder</a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Swiggy1957"> /u/Swiggy1957 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xagkag/a_truck_driver_lives_a_long_healthy_life_after/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xagkag/a_truck_driver_lives_a_long_healthy_life_after/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>I asked God for a bike, but I knew God doesn’t work that way.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RealArvin"> /u/RealArvin </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xa9u0x/i_asked_god_for_a_bike_but_i_knew_god_doesnt_work/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xa9u0x/i_asked_god_for_a_bike_but_i_knew_god_doesnt_work/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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They were too big to transport to England.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SpaceEngineering"> /u/SpaceEngineering </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x9xlz4/why_are_the_pyramids_located_in_egypt/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x9xlz4/why_are_the_pyramids_located_in_egypt/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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If that were true I would still have my baby
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/oldelmerfudd"> /u/oldelmerfudd </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xa2rxz/i_was_always_told_as_a_kid_if_you_shake_it_more/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xa2rxz/i_was_always_told_as_a_kid_if_you_shake_it_more/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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That priest is now in prison.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RID_user133007"> /u/RID_user133007 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xalxx9/i_was_blessed_with_a_9inch_penis/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/xalxx9/i_was_blessed_with_a_9inch_penis/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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