NASA astronauts will be stuck in space for eight months
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is delaying its Polaris Dawn launch, scheduled for today, until tomorrow morning due to a helium leak. In related news, NASA announced Saturday that it will use SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to bring two astronauts home from the International Space Station. However, the next Dragon return flight is not scheduled until February. As a result, their stay, originally intended to last eight days, will extend to about eight months.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Today is Tuesday, August the 27th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article Podcast. Today's |
| 0:09.1 | article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:16.1 | Elon Musk's SpaceX is delaying its Polaris-dawn launch scheduled for today until tomorrow morning |
| 0:23.1 | due to a helium leak. The mission will send four people into orbit for five days. On day three, |
| 0:29.7 | two of them will perform the first spacewalk ever conducted on a commercial mission. In related news, |
| 0:35.9 | NASA announced Saturday that it will use SpaceX's Dragon |
| 0:39.6 | capsule to bring two astronauts home from the International Space Station. They have been stuck there |
| 0:45.2 | since June because the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that carried them to the station has been |
| 0:50.4 | plagued by thruster problems and helium leaks. However, the next dragon return flight |
| 0:55.8 | is not scheduled until February. As a result, their stay, originally intended to last eight days, |
| 1:02.2 | will extend to about eight months. The Starliner capsule were returned to Earth likely in September |
| 1:08.3 | without anyone on board. The Starliner Project costs more than |
| 1:11.9 | $5 billion. When the empty capsule travels back to Earth, I doubt many people outside of Boeing and |
| 1:18.3 | NASA will be watching. If astronauts were on board the troubled craft, millions of us would travel vicariously |
| 1:24.0 | with them. In other words, the Starliner capsule's true value is based not on what it is, |
| 1:30.6 | but on whom it contains. Let's learn today to see ourselves in the same way. Sociologists Philip |
| 1:37.2 | Rife observed, no culture has ever preserved itself where it is not a registration of sacred order. |
| 1:45.9 | He then made an important statement our secularized society needs to hear. The notion of a culture that persists independent of all |
| 1:52.1 | sacred order is unprecedented in human history. In quote. However, for a culture to flourish, |
| 1:58.7 | it needs the right sacred order. |
| 2:01.5 | The Taliban recently codified morality laws requiring Afghan women to cover their faces and men to grow beards. |
| 2:08.8 | I doubt this will help the escalating humanitarian crisis raging in that country, |
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