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He was elected to the House a year ago. That said , with the enactment of Senate Bill 206 , there should also be accompanying legislation requiring all athletes to reimburse their schools if they do not complete their degrees or leave early to pursue a professional sports career.

Called the Orion Production and Operations Contract (OPOC), this deal taps Lockheed for between six and 12 Orion spacecraft through the year 2030. The Orion is a spacecraft created to fly crewed missions to space and was designed by Lockheed Martin , an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company.

The Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ) is leaving no stone unturned to reestablish contach with Vikram lander . The trajectory lines, taken together with the radio telescope data, raise the question what happened first: a malfunction or a loss of communication, said Roddam Narasimha, former director of the National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, and former member of the space commission.

The movement - inspired by the braided Swedish teenager Thunberg who started weekly school walkouts previous year - has gone global, drawing parallels with other protests like the Civil Rights struggle and anti-apartheid demonstrations. As Friday morning made its way through the world's time zones, students across Asia and Europe began the strike well before students of the Happy Valley-Goose Bay school were waking up to go to class.

She said her math teacher had given her the option to sit the exam before Friday, but she was unable to do so because of her commitments as one of the protest organizers . Some held home-made placards with slogans including "Don't be a fossil fool" and "Make our planet Greta again", in a reference Thunberg. In Uganda, the Friday for Future protests involved local government workers, schools, universities and farmers, who are most affected by the droughts in that country.

In a bid to help ISRO communicate with " Vikram Lander " which is now on the lunar surface, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), on Friday, began sending radio signals to Vikram Lander, as revealed by Astronomer Scott Tilley. Interestingly, it turns out that Nasa's LRO had managed to collect data during the Chandrayaan-2 lander's descent in the early hours of September 7.

In a statement by NASA , the asteroid 2000 QW7 has passed our planet from a distance of 3.3 million miles. The space rocks are estimated to be about 400 to 850 feet (120 to 260 meters) and 950 to 2,100 (290 to 650 meters) in size, respectively.

Isro scientists have been trying to re-establish contact with the lander. Namira Salim, the first Pak woman to go to Space, said that the attempt to make a soft landing on the Moon's far side was in itself a "giant leap for South Asia as well as for the entire global space industry".

By Thursday , however, upper-level winds are forecast to become unfavorable for tropical cyclone formation. Stay with WPTV and Storm Team 5 for the latest developments on this storm . Hopefully, it will not develop into anything more than just a rainmaker but if it does get stronger the system's close proximity to the coast will make time of the essence should you need to react.

If you live in the Central, Mountain or Pacific time zones, the moment the moon turns full will be the evening of Friday the 13th. The next time a full moon will coincide with Friday the 13th will be August 13, 2049. When is the Full Harvest Moon in September this year? When viewed from Los Angeles, the Full Moon will peak around 9.32pm PDT. Mr Rao said: "To add to this Full Moon "madness", this upcoming Full Moon very almost coincides with apogee - that point in its orbit which ...

Over the weekend, ISRO announced that the orbiter had caught sight of the lander. "All possible efforts are being made to establish communication with lander". Chandrayaan-2 was meant to be a multi-part mission, and a follow-up to India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1. "The success criteria was defined for each and every phase of the mission and till date, 90 to 95 per cent of the mission objectives have been accomplished and will continue to contribute to Lunar science, ...