The "unremarkable" headline:
Russia plans to send an uncrewed spacecraft to the International Space Station in order to bring two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut back to Earth after they were stranded there, NPR reported on Friday.
According to the report, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio arrived at the ISS in September in the Soyuz MS-22.
However, on December 14, an external coolant leak was detected on the Russian spacecraft, rendering it inoperable for a standard return mission and effectively stranding Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio.
www.jpost.com
Meaning: the spaceship originally intended to return these 3 to Earth is "inoperable", so Russia is sending into space a substitute on a space "rescue" mission.
Apparently space travel has become routine enough as to not warrant much news priority.
The context for this news in the broader spectrum of human history:
Anatomically modern humans emerged less than 400,000 years ago; we have been around for less than 0.01 per cent of the Earth’s story. ... The oldest Homo sapiens remains date from 315,000 years ago, and until 12,000 years ago all humans lived as hunter-gatherers.
https://aeon.co/essays/we-will-never-be-able-to-live-on-another-planet-heres-why
CERTAINLY we've come a very, very long way from leading lives chiefly occupied with obtaining food. Tang anyone?
BUT !!
We're just getting started. We've barely gone beyond our own solar system, yet this space rescue mission is going largely unnoticed.
Russia launches spacecraft to rescue cosmonauts, astronaut stranded on ISS
An external coolant leak was detected on the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, rendering it inoperable for a standard return mission.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF / Published: FEBRUARY 24, 2023 17:52Russia plans to send an uncrewed spacecraft to the International Space Station in order to bring two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut back to Earth after they were stranded there, NPR reported on Friday.
According to the report, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio arrived at the ISS in September in the Soyuz MS-22.
However, on December 14, an external coolant leak was detected on the Russian spacecraft, rendering it inoperable for a standard return mission and effectively stranding Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio.
Russia launches spacecraft to rescue cosmonauts, astronaut on ISS
An external coolant leak was detected on the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, rendering it inoperable for a standard return mission.
www.jpost.com
Meaning: the spaceship originally intended to return these 3 to Earth is "inoperable", so Russia is sending into space a substitute on a space "rescue" mission.
Apparently space travel has become routine enough as to not warrant much news priority.
The context for this news in the broader spectrum of human history:
Anatomically modern humans emerged less than 400,000 years ago; we have been around for less than 0.01 per cent of the Earth’s story. ... The oldest Homo sapiens remains date from 315,000 years ago, and until 12,000 years ago all humans lived as hunter-gatherers.
https://aeon.co/essays/we-will-never-be-able-to-live-on-another-planet-heres-why
CERTAINLY we've come a very, very long way from leading lives chiefly occupied with obtaining food. Tang anyone?
BUT !!
We're just getting started. We've barely gone beyond our own solar system, yet this space rescue mission is going largely unnoticed.