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Astronauts depart space station Thursday to a changed world
UPI ^
| 4/17/20
| Paul Brinkmann
Posted on 04/19/2020 5:28:35 AM PDT by Libloather
April 16 (UPI) -- Two astronauts and a cosmonaut were scheduled to depart from the International Space Station at 9:53 p.m. EDT Thursday after concluding their mission.
NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, who has spent nine months living and working on the space station, will join NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos for the return flight.
All three had left Earth before the coronavirus pandemic began, as Meir noted in a live broadcast Friday from the space station.
"It's a little bit difficult to believe that we are truly going back to a different planet," Meir said. She added that watching from space as billions of people on Earth dealt with the pandemic was "surreal."
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: andromedastrain; astronauts; nasa; space; station
To: Libloather
Stay up there, shelter in place
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posted on
04/19/2020 5:32:04 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
To: Libloather
GMTA:
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posted on
04/19/2020 5:34:28 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
To: Libloather
Ultimate social distancing.
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posted on
04/19/2020 6:13:23 AM PDT
by
bramps
(It's the Islam, stupid!)
To: Libloather
I can’t wait for the return of Americans on American spaceships to return to orbit in May. This country needs a shot in the arm.
To: Libloather
Do they get to take their PPE home for trips go the store?
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posted on
04/19/2020 6:33:43 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
. For $135 or so, it might be fun to get one of these costumes to wear when out and about now...
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posted on
04/19/2020 6:38:19 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
To: Libloather
They are well supplied for their mission.
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posted on
04/19/2020 6:49:29 AM PDT
by
Leep
(We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
To: Libloather
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posted on
04/19/2020 7:46:58 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: All
I don't think one thing in their life will be different than before they left. They're the 1% after all.
The elite and the things they are throwing at us to get our our minds off the fact that they have taken away our god given rights is tiring.
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posted on
04/19/2020 1:55:46 PM PDT
by
ssfromla
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/19/2020 6:47:19 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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