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Cosmonaut Stranded on Mir in 1991 Now Heads Rescue Mission to ISS
When a Russian spaceship docked as a lifeboat for three stranded men at the International Space Station in February, one may have wondered if Sergei Krikalev, heading the rescue mission, felt any deja vu.
If that name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s also sometimes known as “the last Soviet” for his more than 311 days spent in space as the Soviet Union collapsed 250 miles beneath him in 1991. He was only meant to be at the Mir station for five months. Instead, he remained for close to a year, never abandoning the outpost.
Today, Krikalev, the former cosmonaut, is the executive director of human spaceflight for the Russian space agency. That means it’s on his watch to make sure NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin get back home safely after their ship sprang a leak at the station in December 2022. The three marooned crew members were supposed to return this month. But their mission will now stretch for a year, until a new crew arrives to relieve them on a separate spacecraft in six months.
Krikalev’s story of being stranded in space is now getting a perhaps overdue spotlight with a new podcast series called “The Last Soviet.” And it’s being told by another cosmonaut, Lance Bass….
Few may remember that boy-band member Bass almost made it to space on a Soyuz spacecraft himself. In 2002, he spent about six months, off and on, training in Star City, Russia, and was certified by Russia and NASA to fly a mission to the space station.
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Destiny 2 Desperate Measures guide – how to complete the mission
Want to know how to beat the Destiny 2 Desperate Measures mission and reveal the ending of the Lightfall campaign? The game’s finale mission is an all-out brawl, so if you’re having a hard time, you’re not alone. We’ve put together a guide to get you through it because, as they say, desperate times call for… well, you know. We’ll set out exactly what the mission involves and how to beat each step.
The goods news is that Desperate Measures is the eighth and final mission on the Destiny 2 Lightfall mission list, so you’re nearly there. It’s among the most challenging missions in Destiny 2‘s newest expansion, so don’t be surprised if it takes a bit of trial and error to get right. Just a quick warning that there are endgame spoilers ahead.
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Destiny 2 Lightfall Headlong puzzle solution and mission guide
The Destiny 2 Lightfall Headlong puzzle is giving some Guardians trouble – if you’re struggling with the solution, you’re not alone. We’ve been there too, but it’s not as tricky as it seems, and in this guide we’ll show you exactly how to solve it.
If you’re familiar with Destiny 2 puzzles, this one will be a piece of cake. But with the Destiny 2 player count on Steam reaching an all-time high upon the Lightfall release, you may be one of many New Lights inspired to fully commit to one of the best free PC games available. If so, you may be less familiar with how to solve the game’s numerous puzzles, many of which you’ll encounter in The Root of Nightmares, the Destiny 2 Lightfall raid. Here’s how you can solve the Headlong puzzle that launched with Lightfall and Destiny 2 season 20.
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Watch SpaceX launch the Crew-6 mission into space
The Crew-6 mission’s getting ready to blast off into space. With the help of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the company’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft will lift off early Monday morning at 1:45AM ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The spacecraft will carry four astronauts, including NASA’s Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, as well as the United Arab Emirates’ Sultan Alneyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. They’re headed to the International Space Station for an up to six-month stay, where they’ll conduct various research projects to help “prepare for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and benefit life on Earth.”
With #Crew6, we’ll gather new information in experiments that will bring us closer to our goal of…
What You Need to Know About NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Mission to the ISS
A new astronaut crew is getting ready to cohabitate in low Earth orbit while conducting dozens of science experiments and research during a six-month period on board the International Space Station.
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Gameplay details from Destiny 2: Lightfall’s first mission
Has Google Lost Its Mission?
Instead of working to serve customers, Seshadri argued most employees ultimately serve other Google employees. He described the company as a “closed world” where working extra hard isn’t necessarily rewarded. Seshadri said feedback is “based on what your colleagues and managers think of your work.” Seshadri said Google is hyper-focused on risk and that “risk mitigation trumps everything else.” Every line of code, every launch, nonobvious decisions, changes from protocol and disagreements are all risks that Googlers have to approach with caution, Seshadri wrote. He added that employees are also “trapped” in a long line of approvals, legal reviews, performance reviews and meetings that leave little room for creativity or true innovation.
“Overall, it is a soft peacetime culture where nothing is worth fighting for,” Seshadri wrote “The people who are inclined to fight on behalf of customers or new ideas or creativity soon learn the downside of doing so.” Seshadri said Google has also been hiring at a rapid pace, which makes it difficult to nurture talent and leads to “bad hires.” Many employees also believe the company is “truly exceptional,” Seshadri said, which means that a lot of antiquated internal processes continue to exist because “that’s the way we do it at Google.” Seshadri said Google has a chance to turn things around, but he doesn’t think the company can continue to succeed by merely avoiding risk. He argues that Google needs to “lead with commitment to a mission,” reward people who fight for “ambitious causes” and trim the layers of middle management. “There is hope for Google and for my friends who work there, but it will require an intervention,” he wrote.
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