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Cubs stay hot, rally past Braves 6-4
  + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/41] Aug 6, 2023; Chicago, Illinois, USA; NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada throws out a ceremonial first pitch before the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-USA TODAY SportsAugust 7 - The Chicago Cubs used a three-run fifth inning to earn a 6-4 victory and clinch a three-game series win over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Sunday. The Cubs entered the home half of the fifth down 3-2, but Ian Happ and Jeimer Candelario hit RBI singles with Cody Bellinger chipping in an RBI double. Swanson delivered an RBI double against his former team in the seventh to give the Cubs a 6-4 lead. After allowing a leadoff double in the ninth inning, Cubs right-hander Adbert Alzolay retired the next three hitters to earn his 14th save.
Persons: Josh Cassada, David Banks, Ian Happ, Jeimer Candelario, Cody Bellinger, Justin Steele, Ozzie Albies, Ronald Acuna Jr, Matt Olson, Olson, Charlie Morton, Acuna, Happ, Morton, Dansby Swanson, Jeimer, Michael Fulmer, Steele, Swanson, Adbert Alzolay Organizations: NASA, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Wrigley, USA, Cubs, MLB, Braves, NL, Thomson Locations: Chicago , Illinois, USA, Chicago
SpaceX capsule returns crew of four from space station mission
  + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - Four crew members aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off Florida's Gulf coast on Saturday, returning safely from a five-month science mission on the International Space Station. The Crew-5 team launched from Florida on Oct. 6 to conduct routine science aboard the station. The mission was SpaceX's sixth crewed flight for NASA since its Crew Dragon spacecraft first flew humans in May 2020, when it restored crewed launches from American soil after nearly a decade of U.S. dependence on Russia's Soyuz program for space station flights. Kikina, the only woman in Russia's cosmonaut corps, was the first Russian to fly on an American spacecraft under a renewed agreement signed in 2022 between NASA and Russia's space agency to conduct joint flights. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, currently on the station, launched there on a Soyuz rocket in September.
CNN —The International Space Station will receive a power boost during a spacewalk on Saturday, as NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio install a solar array outside the floating laboratory. Against the backdrop of spectacular views of Earth, the team assembled a mounting bracket on the starboard side of the space station’s truss. This hardware allows for the installation of more rollout solar arrays, called iROSAs, to increase electrical power on the space station. The plan is to add a total of six iROSAs, which will likely boost the space station’s power generation by more than 30% once all are operational. During Saturday’s spacewalk, Cassada and Rubio will install a solar array to increase capacity in one of the space station’s eight power channels, located on the station’s starboard truss.
CNN —The first in a series of end-of-the-year spacewalks kicked off Tuesday morning outside the International Space Station. First-time spacewalkers and NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio began their excursion outside the space station at 9:14 a.m. 🔧🌏 pic.twitter.com/kM1tw7ng50 — International Space Station (@Space_Station) November 15, 2022The hardware was delivered to the space station on November 9 aboard a Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, which safely delivered its cargo despite only one of its two solar arrays deploying after launch. This hardware will allow for the installation of more rollout solar arrays, called iROSAs, to give the space station a power boost. The thin orange pieces have been placed in different parts of the helmet, which has already been tested on orbit by the astronauts inside the space station.
A high-ranking official of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said shortly after the launch that the flight marked “a new phase of our cooperation” with the U.S. space agency NASA. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endurance, lifted off into clear skies at noon EDT (1600 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. As the spacecraft entered Earth orbit, Kikina radioed her thanks to NASA, Roscosmos and their International Space Station (ISS) partners for “giving us this great opportunity.”“We’re so glad to do it together,” Kikina said. The mission, designated Crew-5, marks the fifth full-fledged ISS crew NASA has flown aboard a SpaceX vehicle since the private rocket venture founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk began sending U.S. astronauts aloft in May 2020. Rounding out the crew from Japan’s space agency JAXA was veteran astronaut Koichi Wakata, 59, a robotics expert making his fifth voyage to space.
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