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Where we vicariously explore the cosmos with astronauts, astrophysicists and enthusiasts. Once the wheels touch the ground the tethers are snapped and the Skycrane flies away to impact the surface at a safe distance. With Mars being about 200 million kilometers (124 million miles) away from Earth, it isn’t possible to control Perseverance in real-time from the ground. Delta II rocket display and Saturn V Center now open, What are the ‘7 Minutes of Terror’ and what to look for during Perseverance’s landing tomorrow, While the other two missions sent by Earth. OuterSpace is an underground hip hop duo from North Philadelphia.Originally a trio consisting of three Puerto Rican friends that then took the artist names Planetary, Jedeye and Crypt the Warchild. “We don’t yet know the motive, but what we do know is that the Asian-American community is feeling enormous pain tonight. Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black and South Asian woman in that office, expressed support to the Asian American community, saying, “We stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked and outraged all people.”. This began its roughly 6-month journey to the Red Planet and tomorrow will bring the long awaiting landing of the rover onto the surface, reusing the similar Skycrane maneuver used by its twin rover Curiosity. If all goes well, we will have a brand new rover on Mars that is purpose-built to search for ancient life and the first step in a plan to return Martian soil samples back to Earth. “I mean, all my friends, we were flabbergasted.”, The American Psychiatric Association does not recognize sex addiction in its main reference guide for mental disorders. Her half-sister, Dana Toole, said Yaun’s husband locked himself in a room and wasn’t injured. The Facebook account featured numerous photos of Baker going back months, including one of him in uniform outside the sheriff’s office. With Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran. The attacks began when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor near Woodstock, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta, authorities said. Directed by Edward L. Cahn. Estoy aquí para pasarlo bien y sacaros unas risas! The killings horrified the Asian American community, which saw the shootings as an attack on them, given a recent wave of assaults that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the United States. As it descends to the surface, the onboard guidance computer will find a suitable landing site inside Jezero Crater that is safe and hopefully close to sites of scientific importance. In this stage, the rover will experience the majority of its deceleration. NASA opened for business on October 1, 1958, tasked with handling space exploration and aeronautics research in the United States. ©2021 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Officers found Long thanks to help from his parents, who recognized him from surveillance footage posted by authorities and gave investigators his cellphone information, which they used to track him, said Reynolds, the Cherokee County sheriff. Help others find us by following in Apple News and Google News. It follows a lull in mass killings during the pandemic in 2020, which had the smallest number of such attacks in more than a decade, according to the database, which tracks mass killings defined as four or more dead, not including the shooter. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter. I talked to @BrookeBaldwin today about how we can #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/SEVN6xK4kz. They heard screaming and women running from the business, said Rita Barron, manager of Gabby’s Boutique. But those statements spurred outrage and widespread skepticism given the locations and that six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent. The shootings appear to be at the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia,” said Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen. Directed by Mario Bava. Last July NASA’s newest Mars rover lifted off from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The first manned expedition to Mars is decimated by an unknown life … “These sexual behaviors getting this label are a symptom, not a cause,” Ley said. Since it is no longer need it is ditched and left to burn upon entry. We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote! The same car was then spotted about 30 miles (48 kilometers) away in Atlanta, where a call came in about a robbery at Gold Spa and three women were shot to death. Today, February 18, NASA is going to … Facing forward is the heat shield, designed to take the heat of the spacecraft hitting the Martian atmosphere, while thin it will still produce enough heat that it is needed. Long was arrested hours later by Crisp County deputies and state troopers. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers have gotten pretty creative over the years with different ways to safely land on the surface. After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants. This will continue to slow down the rover more while it gets closer to its landing spot. From traditional landers to covering the spacecraft in inflatable airbags this time they will reuse Curiosity’s method, the Skycrane. Jay Baker told reporters. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said that regardless of the shooter’s motivation, “it is unacceptable, it is hateful and it has to stop.”, Authorities said they didn’t know if Long ever went to the massage parlors where the shootings occurred but that he was heading to Florida to attack “some type of porn industry.”. The virus was first identified in China, and then-President Donald Trump and others have used racially charged terms to describe it. Plot. The recent attacks against the community are un-American. Either way, after these 7 minutes Perseverance will be on the surface of Mars and there is nothing that controllers here on Earth can do to fix any issues. It will take about 11 minutes to know if the rover landed safely, by the time teams on the ground see it start it has entered the atmosphere, the rover has already landed one way or another. A day after the shootings, investigators were trying to unravel what might have compelled 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long to commit the worst mass killing in the U.S. in almost two years. Four died: 33-year-old Delaina Ashley Yaun, 54-year-old Paul Andre Michels, 44-year-old Daoyou Feng and 49-year-old Xiaojie Tan, who owned the business. Kate Brumback and Angie Wang ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at … https://t.co/CzYeHaIoyy. Last July NASA’s newest Mars rover lifted off from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In 1973, a nuclear-powered spaceship blasts off from Mars for Earth, bringing with it the sole survivor of the first mission, Col. Edward Carruthers (Marshall Thompson). Part of HuffPost Crime. Another woman was fatally shot at the Aromatherapy Spa across the street. Over the past year, thousands of incidents of abuse have been reported to an anti-hate group that tracks incidents against Asian Americans, and hate crimes in general are at the highest level in more than a decade. Our inability to admit that racism, xenophobia, & gender-based violence is very real & deadly causes the media & law enforcement to humanize the perpetrator, not the victims. The Skycrane, attached to the top of the rover, is dropped from the aeroshell at around 2 km (1.2 mi) above the surface. The sheriff’s office also did not respond to a message. When it comes to space missions, landing a vehicle on another planet is about as high stakes as it comes. “He’s taking it hard,” Toole said. On Friday afternoon, three International Space Station (ISS) astronauts will relocate the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft in preparation for the arrival of its next crew members. Space.com is where humanity’s journey to new and exciting worlds is transmitted back down to Earth. Due to the thin atmosphere, a parachute landing isn’t possible like it is here on Earth. All of this launched on top of an Atlas V rocket back during the hardest parts of the COVID-19 pandemic and finally, it begins the final moments of its interplanetary travels tomorrow. The manager of a boutique next door said her husband watched surveillance video after the shooting and the suspect was sitting in his car for as long as an hour before going inside. Me dicen que la lío mucho, en el buen sentido. The Mars 2020 mission is a combination of the Perseverance rover carrying a suite of brand new experiments and the Ingenuity helicopter that will become the first vehicle to attempt powered flight on another planet. They must stop,” Biden tweeted Wednesday. Massage Spa Attacks Send Terror Through Asian American Community. He is suspected of having murdered the other nine members of his crew for their food and water rations, on the premise that he had no way of knowing if or when an Earth rescue mission would ever arrive. “He apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex addiction, and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places, and it’s a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate,” Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. The shootings appear to be at the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia,” said Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen. While the other two missions sent by Earth last year entered Mars orbit, Perseverance will not. The New York Times op-ed columnist and author Charles Blow shares why he thinks Black Americans should move back to the South as part of a discussion of his new book, "The Devil You Know". Baker drew criticism for saying Long had “a really bad day” and “this is what he did.” A Facebook page appearing to belong to Baker promoted a T-shirt with racist language about China and the coronavirus last year. Yaun leaves behind a 13-year-old son and 8-month-old daughter. He refused to stop on a highway and officers bumped the back of his car, causing him to crash, Sheriff Billy Hancock said. The account was deleted Wednesday night, and Baker did not immediately respond to voicemails and an email seeking comment. The first part of the landing starts high above the surface where the spacecraft detaches the cruise stage, this part was used to make sure the rover made it to Mars at the exact orientation and speed. All of this in 7 minutes, not one part of the process can fail. Long told police that Tuesday’s attack was not racially motivated. The shootings appear to be at the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia,” said state Rep. Bee Nguyen, the first Vietnamese American to serve in the Georgia House and a frequent advocate for women and communities of color. At about 13 km (8 mi) above the surface, the aeroshell which covers the rover will deploy its parachute. He claimed to have a “sex addiction,” and authorities said he apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation. The Perseverance mission is part of a broader NASA initiative with the European Space Agency that aims to collect samples of rocks and sediment from Mars and return them to Earth. While some people struggle to control their sexual behaviors, it’s often linked to other recognized disorders or moral views about sexuality, said David Ley, clinical psychologist and author of “The Myth of Sex Addiction.”. Over the past year, there have been over 3,800 anti-Asian hate incidents, 68% of which have been directed at women. Be sure to check us out on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, join our Discord, and don’t forget the Space Explored podcast! The founding member Mario Collazo (Planetary) was then attending 10th grade, while the other two, Richard Cruz (Jedeye) and Marcus Albaladejo (Crypt the Warchild), were in 8th grade. But the facts remain the same — 3 Asian businesses, 6 of 8 victims are Asian women. That being said, Perseverance will be coming in at interplanetary transfer speeds which is about 80 thousand km/hour (50 thousand mi/hour). “He was there. With Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi. “They’re very distraught, and they were very helpful in this apprehension,” he said. ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. President Joe Biden called the attack “very, very troublesome.”. You can’t escape that when you’re in a room and gunshots are flying — what do you do?”. “While the details of the shootings are still emerging, the broader context cannot be ignored,” Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta said in a statement. Perseverance borrows a lot from its predecessor including how it gets to the ground. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); NASA has landed successfully 8 times on the surface of Mars and they hope to bring that number to 9 tomorrow. It immediately fires its landing engines and turns sideways to keep away from colliding with the aeroshell and parachute above it, it must fire its engine immediately to maintain stability. He heard the gunshots and everything. About 200 m (656 ft) above the surface, the rover will be lowered to the surface on nylon tethers like a scene out of Mission Impossible. Meanwhile, Sheriff Frank Reynolds said it was too early to tell if the attack was racially motivated — “but the indicators right now are it may not be.”. Yesterday's attack was not so much as surprise as the result of using slurs like "Chinese virus." Following that will be the main landing stream which you can watch almost anywhere you can find a NASA page. This is to maximize the amount of scientific payload and not have to bring a powerful engine and fuel to slow itself down. Today is National Voter Registration Day! The Atlanta mayor said police have not been to the massage parlors in her city beyond a minor potential theft. “The shootings happened under the trauma of increasing violence against Asian Americans nationwide, fueled by white supremacy and systemic racism.”, Nico Straughan met Long when he moved to the area in seventh grade, saying Long brought a Bible to school every day and was “super nice, super Christian, very quiet.”, “I don’t know what turn of heart he might have had, but he went from one of the nicest kids I ever knew in high school to being on the news,” Straughan said. NASA will begin coverage of the landing with a live stream for students starting at 12:30 PM Est. “We certainly will not begin to blame victims,” Bottoms said.  The attack was the sixth mass killing this year in the U.S., and the deadliest since the August 2019 Dayton, Ohio, shooting that left nine people dead, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. terror through the Asian American community. -Contacto : taeschneecontacto@gmail.com Associated Press writers Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul; Colleen Long and Zeke Miller in Washington; Sudhin Thanawala in Woodstock, Georgia; Michael Warren, Jeff Amy, Ben Nadler and R.J. Rico in Atlanta, Jeff Martin in Marietta, Georgia; Anila Yoganathan in Cherokee County, Georgia; and Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City contributed to this story. Yaun and her husband came to the spa on a date, her mother, Margaret Rushing, told WAGA-TV. 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