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Dasting Schuman.

'Stranded' NASA astronaut recalls moment he thought he was going to die in space

13:09 18 Mar 2026 GMT

Barry 'Butch' Wilmore, who was 'stranded' in space for a period of nine months, has recalled the moment he didn't think he'd make it.

Wilmore and Sunita Williams were initially launched into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force on June 5 2024 in what was meant to be an eight-day mission.

However, the pair ended up spending a staggering 286 days on the International Space Station (ISS).

Due to technical issues with their aircraft, Wilmore and Williams were forced to spend all that time in space before they were brought home aboard the SpaceX Dragon aircraft in March last year.

A year on from their return, Wilmore has been writing a memoir to document his unique experience during that unexpected stay on the ISS.

Writing in Stuck in Space: An Astronauts Hope Through the Unexpected, the NASA astronaut detailed the moment he thought he was going to die.

"I cannot even begin to convey the feeling of dread that momentarily overwhelms my emotions. It’s simply unbelievable," he penned, as per People.

It was remembering the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that saw seven people killed which had Wilmore fearing the worse.

He added in his recently released book: "I think of the partially charred helmet and boot I retrieved from that East Texas field.

The pieces had fallen tens of thousands of feet. Certainly all of those thoughts race through your mind. But you compartmentalize and get rid of them because you got to focus on what’s going on at the moment."

Williams sat down with 60 Minutes Australia in October 2025 to discuss the trip and the moment she realized things weren't quite right.

"We knew on the second day, before we started losing thrusters, that things were not acting correctly," she explained.

"The spacecraft was working hard to keep us on the trajectory of the space station, but it wasn't acting like it was designed to."

The astronauts started to lose its thrusters and 'one after another', which is when they knew 'something was absolutely wrong'.

She recalled "I think both of us were like, 'does that sound right?' Because you can tell when things are working by the way they sound, right? Like your car is the same way.

"If it sounds a little different, you're sort of questioning yourself, like 'am I hearing something?'"

Wilmore, meanwhile, maintained he wasn't going to get frustrated by the constant delays to a safe return home.

He told the New York Times: "It’s wonderful enjoyment. It’s fun. This is not an easy business that we’re taking part in. It is very difficult.

Human spaceflight is tough and sometimes you run into situations that are unexpected and we found ourselves in one."

https://www.unilad.com/technology/nasa/ron-garan-nasa-astronaut-humanity-465021-20260307

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XClV8EH7jDE (Butch Wilmore - He Was Stranded in Space for 286 Days | SRS #287)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIGKLdFwEVk (Life in Space: 9 months with the most incredible view of the world | 60 Minutes Australia)

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FAA Ends Part 450 Transition Period

March 18, 2026

Space launch is officially in its Part 450 era.

The FAA announced Tuesday that US launchers had all transitioned to the five-year-old licensing requirements, leaving no one still operating under legacy regulations.

Context: The FAA established the Part 450 regulations in 2021 to streamline launch licensing for commercial space companies and to meet the Trump administration’s Space Policy Directive-2 requirements.

The new regulations were intended to:

Consolidate multiple application processes;

Allow for one license to cover multiple launch sites or missions;

Simplify the burdensome and time consuming approval process.

Blowback: Dave Cavossa, head of the Commercial Space Federation, told Congress in 2024 that the regulation threatens to “substantially reduce the pace of innovation and progress within the domestic space sector, and impede national competitiveness with China.”

Industry has also broadly said the new regulations remain difficult to navigate. Companies have complained about a lengthy pre-approval process, prompting Congress to direct the FAA to move faster.

Last year, lawmakers ordered a GAO review of whether the FAA is approving applications “in a timely manner.”

The FAA issued the first Part 450 license to Astra in 2022, but criticism continued, forcing the agency to establish a committee to review Part 450 in November 2024.

What’s next: Previous regulations and Part 450 existed in tandem for years, during a grace period that allowed existing launchers time to receive a license under the new rules.

However, with the FAA’s announcement that Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and ULA have all transitioned over, Part 450 is now the one and only law of the land.

In total, the FAA has approved 14 Part 450 licenses in the past five years.

https://payloadspace.com/faa-ends-part-450-transition-period/

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Reuters

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UBS completes migration of Credit Suisse clients in Switzerland

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UBS said on Wednesday it had completed the migration ​of former Credit Suisse clients ‌in Switzerland onto its platforms, another major milestone in the bank's integration ​of its former rival, which…

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Mar 18, 2026 · 1:25 PM UTC

https://x.com/Reuters/status/2034259824502878247

Whay is a keystone?

Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest

Mar 17, 2026

Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases — purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil) — pointing to a cosmic origin for some of life’s fundamental chemistry.

Nucleobases are essential components of DNA and RNA, the molecules that underpin life on Earth.

Finding them in uncontaminated extraterrestrial material allows scientists to explore how these compounds can form without biological processes, and how they may be transported across the Solar System.

Earlier analyses of samples from the asteroid Ryugu detected the nucleobase uracil. By contrast, studies of meteorites and material from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu revealed a broader diversity of nucleobases.

“To accurately assess the nucleobases in extraterrestrial materials, it is essential to analyze samples minimally altered by terrestrial processes,” said Dr. Toshiki Koga from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and colleagues.

“In this context, pristine asteroid samples — those not exposed to Earth’s atmosphere — hold high scientific value.”

In the new study, the authors analyzed two Ryugu samples collected by the Hayabusa-2 mission.

They detected all five canonical nucleobases — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil — in both samples.

They compared the results with those obtained from the Murchison and Orgueil meteorites and with the returned samples from the asteroid Bennu.

They found significant differences in the relative abundances of the nucleobases.

More specifically, Ryugu contains roughly comparable amounts of purine and pyrimidine nucleobases, while Murchison has more purine nucleobases while samples from Bennu and Orgeuil are richer in pyrimidine nucleobases.

These results reflect the different chemical, environmental, and evolutionary histories of their respective parent bodies.

The detection of these nucleobases in asteroid and meteorite materials, despite their chemical differences, implies that they are widespread throughout the Solar System.

The findings also suggest that carbonaceous asteroids may have contributed to the chemical inventory of the early Earth.

“An analysis of pristine nucleobase distributions and their isotopic compositions in other carbonaceous meteorites would offer critical insights into the origins of these compounds and the astrochemical processes involving nitrogen-containing molecules,” the researchers said.

“The universal detection of all five canonical nucleobases in samples from the carbonaceous asteroids Ryugu and Bennu highlights the potential contribution of these exogenous molecules to the organic inventory that supported prebiotic molecular evolution and ultimately enabled the emergence of RNA and DNA on the early Earth.”

https://www.sci.news/space/five-canonical-nucleobases-ryugu-samples-14627.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02791-z

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The key that opens all doors.

The 'Start'.

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>>24396812

>She has that Operation Paperclip face.

Why Did Slotkin File for Divorce in D.C.? Because She Lives There

Mike Rogers may be a classic snowbird, but Elissa Slotkin has never had a stable Michigan address as an adult

By Jay Murray · October 24, 2024

Elissa Slotkin is struggling down the home stretch, especially with her subpar debate appearances, so the media have been rolling out a new round of attack ads and op-eds targeting Mike Rogers, her opponent for Michigan’s junior senate seat, and his status as a Michigan resident.

This is laughable, given that the 61-year-old Rogers was born in Livonia, raised in Redford, graduated from Adrian College, and spent the bulk of his adult life living in Michigan, serving in the Michigan Legislature and in Congress. Sure, Rogers owns a home in Florida and spends time in the Sunshine State, but so do many boomer-aged Michigan residents. So that makes Roger’s what? A typical Michigan resident of a certain age? What a scandal.

Meanwhile, Slotkin gets a free pass.

So, I took a deep dive into her Michigan credentials. My previous reporting has already covered her bizarre address change in 2022 to a home in Lansing, owned by prominent lobbyist Jerry Hollister, as a means to run for the redrawn 7th Congressional District. She leased the home for only the duration of her winning campaign, and there is no evidence she ever even slept there.

Prior to that address change, her legal residencesince 2017 had been her father’s farm in Holly; however, she had no legal connection to the farm other than a “doing business as,” registered under the name Pinpoint Consulting, which, according to records through the State of Michigan LARA business database, was never in good standing, with no income or revenue.

In layman’s terms, this means Slotkin filed incorporation papers in Lansing for a business, with herself listed as the resident agent and the business address listed in Michigan, for the sole reason of claiming to be a Michigan small business owner; however, she had no intention of ever operating this company, as evidenced by the lack of disclosures or reported revenue. It was, in effect, a shell company created for political purposes.

Very strange. A Michigan congresswoman from a very affluent family, owning no home and leasing mailing addresses in districts for election purposes, and with virtually no history of even residing in the state at all.

It strains credulity to believe that a middle-aged, successful woman who has worked in government for more than two decades has been living out of a suitcase for all these years, hopping around and using her dad’s or a lobbyist’s address. She owns a home somewhere, right?

Oh, she does. She’s got digs in one of the most expensive and affluent areas of the nation. Since 2007, Slotkin has been the sole owner of a two-story home in Washington, D.C., within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol.

This makes sense, given that Slotkin worked for the CIA and then the Pentagon until 2017, but it does reveal an uncomfortable truth. Slotkin is the very definition of a carpetbagger. She’s not a wheels-up congresswoman who returns to home over the weekend and when Congress is out of session for the summer; she’s been a year-round D.C. resident for 17 years.

Slotkin, anticipating this could potentially be a problem for her, got clever in May 2023 and convinced her father to quit-claim deed his farm to her (tax-free, no less). Only her name appears on the deed, given that she filed for and received an uncontested divorce from her husband—David Moore, a former Army Colonel whom she wed in September 2010—in March 2023.

Typically, when Michigan residents divorce, they file in the counties where they reside, own assets, where they may have legal rights to children for the purposes of mediation, family-court concerns, and property division.

Slotkin has no divorce records on file anywhere in the State of Michigan. In fact, her divorce complaint was filed in Superior Court of the District of Columbia Family Court – Domestic Relations Branch.

The reason she filed for divorce in Washington D.C. is simple: That’s where she lives.

https://enjoyer.com/slotkin-file-for-divorce-in-washington-lives-townhouse-farm-holly/

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Have Phun

X-ray spacecraft watches monster black hole wake up and fire cosmic bullets at starburst galaxy

March 18, 2026

The joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission XRISM has spotted a monster black hole awakening in a distant "starburst" galaxy.

The research is revolutionary to black hole science, because it represents the first observation of the exact stage at which "winds" from a black hole begin to shape an entire galaxy.

Thus, the "switching on" of this supermassive black hole's powerful outflows could help scientists better understand how these cosmic titans and the intense winds of matter that flow from them influence their home galaxies, and how galaxies and their incumbent and dominant central supermassive black holes evolve in unison.

The team behind this research studied the supermassive black hole IRAS 05189-2524 using XRISM (the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) and its onboard, sophisticated X-ray spectroscopic instruments.

This work revealed bullet-like outflows blasting from the black hole's vicinity at speeds up to around 14% the speed of light.

The team found that these black hole bullets carried with them energy 100 times greater than that of slower molecular winds that spread through the distant galaxy, which is the result of a recent merger and is currently in the midst of intense star formation.

The energetic nature of these outflows shows they are more than capable of redirecting the evolution of this galaxy.

Supermassive black holes and galaxies grow up together

when it was created via a merger between two progenitor galaxies. This collision delivered a vast amount of gas and dust, which triggered an intense bout of star formation, referred to as starburst.

However, much of this gas flows toward the heart of the galaxy and its central supermassive black hole, gathering around it in a flattened swirling cloud called an "accretion disk."

As the accretion disk gradually feeds the black hole, the huge gravitational influence of the supermassive black hole, estimated to be 420 million times more massive than the sun, generates powerful tidal forces in the accretion disk, causing it to glow brightly.

This region is referred to as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), and its bright emissions are seen on Earth as a quasar.

Not all the matter in the accretion disk is fed to the supermassive black hole, though. Some is channeled to the black hole's poles, from where it is blasted out as powerful jets. Other matter is blown away by intense black hole winds.

These factors can push gas and dust away from the AGN, starving the black hole, and away from the host galaxy as a whole. This has the effect of "killing" the galaxy by cutting off star formation.

This leads to a quiet phase in the galaxy, now with a settled elliptical shape, without star formation, and with a slumbering black hole.

IRAS 05189-2524 presents a unique opportunity for scientists to study this process, as it is in the late stages of merging, with an active starburst ongoing and an active supermassive black hole in an AGN.

The scientists not only studied these black hole bullets in great detail but also found that this supermassive black hole is still voraciously feeding. In fact, this violent consumption of matter is close to the theoretical limit for such a black hole.

The team expects the outflows of matter from this black hole to intensify, eventually killing star formation in this galaxy.

The researchers hope to further study IRAS 05189-2524 with XRISM, as well as collect observations with the forthcoming NewAthena spacecraft, set to be the largest X-ray observatory ever built.

The new results will soon appear in a special edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/x-ray-spacecraft-watches-monster-black-hole-wake-up-and-fire-cosmic-bullets-at-starburst-galaxy

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Squirrels eat nuts. Now find the tree got to be near where the grass grows

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>Why Did Slotkin File for Divorce in D.C.? Because She Lives There

Elissa Slotkin and Husband to Divorce After Controversy over Her Moving into Home of ‘Lobbyist’ Landlord During Campaign

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UNITED STATES - JUNE 23: From left, Reps. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.,

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Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and her husband will divorce after 12 years of marriage following a controversial campaign season.

“After careful consideration, we are saddened to announce that we are divorcing after 12 years of marriage,” the former U.S. intelligence officer told the Detroit Free Press in a joint statement with her husband, Dave Moore, over the weekend. “We’ve reached this decision together after much reflection and we do it on agreeable terms.”

The two, who got married in 2011 after meeting in 2009 in Iraq, added, “We appreciate everyone’s respect for our privacy on this matter during this time.”

This, of course, follows controversy from Republicans during the last campaign cycle when she was living in a residence owned by Jerry Hollister, a “lobbyist,” who is a “part-time” corporate “executive” for a pharmaceutical manufacturer receiving millions in federal funding — and has donated to her campaign — to run for the new congressional seat.

At the time, the “lobbyist” and his family were registered to vote at the same residence where Slotkin resided.

When Slotkin was confronted about the situation during a television debate with her Republican opponent, state Sen. Tom Barrett, she responded to the news anchor asking the questions.

Trying to defend herself, Slotkin claimed the attacks were a “political desperation” since she claimed to be paying fair market value.

Slotkin’s Republican opponent attacked her by saying there were over 1,500 available apartments in Lansing, Michigan, at the time. Still, Slotkin was living in the one owned by the executive who donated to her campaign

>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/06/elissa-slotkin-husband-to-divorce-after-controversy-moving-home-lobbyist-landlord-during-campaign/

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>Sluutkin sounding like a blueanon election denying conspircy theorist. and a bit anti semetic

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Thomas was crossed at the revolutionary diesels. They stunk and was all greasy

International globohomo DS sabotages US. Trump got played.