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Transcript/ScriptThe Week in Space (TV)
HEADLINE: First Look at Black Hole in Center of Our Galaxy
TEASER: Plus, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission comes home
PUBLISHED AT: Thursday, 05/12/2022 2:55 pm
BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: AP/ REUTERS/ NASA/ NASA TV/ EHT Collaboration/ National Science Foundation/ Rocket Lab
SCRIPT EDITORS: Bowman, BR
VIDEO SOURCE (S): AP/ REUTERS/ NASA/ NASA TV/ EHT Collaboration/ National Science Foundation/ Rocket Lab
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TRT: 2:54
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[[INTRO: An image once thought impossible becomes reality. Plus, the International Space Station has four fewer passengers. And you might have heard of the company that was trying to catch a rocket from the sky. They did it. Sort of. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.]]
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We begin this week with the very first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Sagittarius A* ((Sagittarius A Star)), as it’s known, is four million times more massive than our Sun.
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The image comes from the Event Horizon Telescope or EHT that linked together eight radio observatories from around the world to create an “Earth-sized” virtual telescope. EHT says the ongoing collaboration will allow scientists to share even more impressive images in the future.
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Also this week, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico after 177 days in orbit and having circled Earth more than 28-hundred times ((2,832)).
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The mission started late last week with Crew-3 packing their bags and climbing aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule dubbed “Endurance” for this mission. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, former station commander Tom Marshburn, and their European counterpart, Matthias Maurer, had been aboard the International Space Station since November. NASA says Crew-3 conducted experiments, ranging from new life support technology to how concrete hardens in microgravity. They completed four tandem spacewalks to both modernize and repair parts of the ISS.
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The Endurance splashdown marked the busiest month yet for SpaceX. The private spaceflight company had already sent replacements to the ISS Crew-3, in addition to launching a private space flight.
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SpaceX has now launched 26 people into orbit in less than two years with eight of them being space tourists.
In other news, a new report to the World Meteorological Organization paints a grim picture for our planet’s climate. The international study from 11 forecast centers around the planet shows a 93-percent chance that the world will set a new record for the hottest year by the end of 2026. Experts say this is a cause for alarm.
[RADIO TRACK: The World Meteorological Organization’s Dr. Maxx Dilley on a video call with AP.]
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((Maxx Dilley, World Meteorological Organization))
“The climate that we have now is a product of the atmosphere that we had 20 or 30 years ago, and if we wait another 20-to-30 years, when we have a full-on climate crisis
going on and then decide that it’s time to really do something serious about reducing emissions, it will be too late.”
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Experts have long warned that one-point-five-degrees Celsius global temperature rise would trigger devastating results, including more severe droughts and storms. The report predicts a 50-50 chance the world surpasses that threshold in the next five years.
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Finally this week, California-based Rocket Lab did what everyone seems to be doing these days when they launched a rocket from New Zealand. But here’s the twist.. instead of a controlled landing like its competitors, a helicopter caught the booster midair. The real-world test did suffer a setback as pilots noticed a weight imbalance and ultimately dumped the booster in the ocean. Rocket Lab did, however, fully succeed in sending 34 satellites into orbit.
((Arash Arabasadi, VOA News))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)Washington D.C.
Embargo DateMay 12, 2022 16:16 EDT
Byline((Arash Arabasadi, VOA News))
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
