Astronaut stuck in space

Astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space — at least temporarily. She flew up to the international space station last December planning to come home in early July after a seven-month stay. She is going to come back a little (?) more later than she planned since she is stuck up in space. The reason she is stuck up there right now is because a hailstorm hit her on her way to space shuttle, Atlantis, damaging her fuel tank. This also affected NASA’s flight schedule for the year. Which also caused her ticket home, space shuttle Endeavour, to get off the ground several weeks later than its originally scheduled June 28 launch. Now she will have to wait longer to go back to her favorite sushi restaurant in Boston. “We're doing things we can as best we can to make her happy, and perhaps launch some special items that will make her more comfortable for that extended period of time," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's deputy manager of the space station program. "Aside from that, there's not a whole lot that one can do." Flight surgeon Dave Alexander said Williams' physical fitness, mental well-being and radiation exposure would be monitored carefully, but "right now, the predictions are Sunita can stay up for an extended period of time." During her longer stay in space, Williams is expected to break the U.S. record for continuous time in space. Her current crewmate, Michael Lopez-Alegria, will set that record when he returns to Earth on April 20 in a Russian Soyuz vehicle with 214 days in space. So at least she will benefit in a way. I feel really bad for Sunita. I can’t imagine how it would feel to be stuck in space, the middle of nowhere. I guess she is living through a nightmare right now.

Astronaut stuck in space

Astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space — at least temporarily. She flew up to the international space station last December planning to come home in early July after a seven-month stay. She is going to come back a little (?) more later than she planned since she is stuck up in space. The reason she is stuck up there right now is because a hailstorm hit her on her way to space shuttle, Atlantis, damaging her fuel tank. This also affected NASA’s flight schedule for the year. Which also caused her ticket home, space shuttle Endeavour, to get off the ground several weeks later than its originally scheduled June 28 launch. Now she will have to wait longer to go back to her favorite sushi restaurant in Boston. “We're doing things we can as best we can to make her happy, and perhaps launch some special items that will make her more comfortable for that extended period of time," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's deputy manager of the space station program. "Aside from that, there's not a whole lot that one can do." Flight surgeon Dave Alexander said Williams' physical fitness, mental well-being and radiation exposure would be monitored carefully, but "right now, the predictions are Sunita can stay up for an extended period of time." During her longer stay in space, Williams is expected to break the U.S. record for continuous time in space. Her current crewmate, Michael Lopez-Alegria, will set that record when he returns to Earth on April 20 in a Russian Soyuz vehicle with 214 days in space. So at least she will benefit in a way. I feel really bad for Sunita. I can’t imagine how it would feel to be stuck in space, the middle of nowhere. I guess she is living through a nightmare right now.

Astronaut stuck in space

Astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space — at least temporarily. She flew up to the international space station last December planning to come home in early July after a seven-month stay. She is going to come back a little (?) more later than she planned since she is stuck up in space. The reason she is stuck up there right now is because a hailstorm hit her on her way to space shuttle, Atlantis, damaging her fuel tank. This also affected NASA’s flight schedule for the year. Which also caused her ticket home, space shuttle Endeavour, to get off the ground several weeks later than its originally scheduled June 28 launch. Now she will have to wait longer to go back to her favorite sushi restaurant in Boston. “We're doing things we can as best we can to make her happy, and perhaps launch some special items that will make her more comfortable for that extended period of time," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's deputy manager of the space station program. "Aside from that, there's not a whole lot that one can do." Flight surgeon Dave Alexander said Williams' physical fitness, mental well-being and radiation exposure would be monitored carefully, but "right now, the predictions are Sunita can stay up for an extended period of time." During her longer stay in space, Williams is expected to break the U.S. record for continuous time in space. Her current crewmate, Michael Lopez-Alegria, will set that record when he returns to Earth on April 20 in a Russian Soyuz vehicle with 214 days in space. So at least she will benefit in a way. I feel really bad for Sunita. I can’t imagine how it would feel to be stuck in space, the middle of nowhere. I guess she is living through a nightmare right now.

Astronaut stuck in space

Astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space — at least temporarily. She flew up to the international space station last December planning to come home in early July after a seven-month stay. She is going to come back a little (?) more later than she planned since she is stuck up in space. The reason she is stuck up there right now is because a hailstorm hit her on her way to space shuttle, Atlantis, damaging her fuel tank. This also affected NASA’s flight schedule for the year. Which also caused her ticket home, space shuttle Endeavour, to get off the ground several weeks later than its originally scheduled June 28 launch. Now she will have to wait longer to go back to her favorite sushi restaurant in Boston. “We're doing things we can as best we can to make her happy, and perhaps launch some special items that will make her more comfortable for that extended period of time," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's deputy manager of the space station program. "Aside from that, there's not a whole lot that one can do." Flight surgeon Dave Alexander said Williams' physical fitness, mental well-being and radiation exposure would be monitored carefully, but "right now, the predictions are Sunita can stay up for an extended period of time." During her longer stay in space, Williams is expected to break the U.S. record for continuous time in space. Her current crewmate, Michael Lopez-Alegria, will set that record when he returns to Earth on April 20 in a Russian Soyuz vehicle with 214 days in space. So at least she will benefit in a way. I feel really bad for Sunita. I can’t imagine how it would feel to be stuck in space, the middle of nowhere. I guess she is living through a nightmare right now.

Super Hero gentics project

In class, we were assigned a superhero project. The project had to do with genetics. In this project, we were assigned to pick a male and a female Marvel superhero, like Spiderman and Destiny. After that, we had to make them conceive a child that would be made from the traits we make. The project first started out with picking your two superheroes. After that you had to write down 15 traits with the first 5 already picked for you. (Hair color, eye color, Etc.) When you are finished with that, you find out the genotype of the superheroes by tossing a coin. You do this by heads being dominant and tails being recessive. Every time you flip the coin, you have to write the outcome down. Some things we had to keep in mind to help us were; complete one superhero before you begin the second one. If the allele is dominant for the first superhero and the second superhero possesses the same allele, then you are tossing to see if it was purebred or hybrid. If the allele is dominant in the first superhero and the second hero has the opposite allele, then the allele is recessive in the second superhero. If the first superhero is a hybrid and the second superhero has the opposite phenotype, then they are homozygous. Then we had to do these traits on punnet squares. After we did this step, we did the press release. In the press release we first had to write down answers to a couple questions on our superhero and mutations. After that we had to write a persuasive paragraph about why we should allow superheroes into society. Once we were done with that we had to write a trait sheet, which included the trait and the dominant and recessive outcomes. After that we had to do the most confusing step. This step was to toss a coin for each of the punnet squares to find out which outcome happened for each trait. If the punnet square was and odd number you tossed for blocks 3 and four. Heads meant that your offspring was in box one; tails meant it was in block 2. Then if it was an even punnet square, you tossed for blocks 3 and 4. Heads being 3, and tails being 4. When you find out which trait occurred you circle it on your trait sheet. After that I had to toss a coin 10 times to find out the ratio of my baby being a girl or a boy. Heads was a boy and tails was a girl. Then, I had to draw my baby based on the traits I got. And that was the whole project. I found this project to be very interesting and fun. I have to admit that I had some confusion problems but thankfully, my teacher helped me and gave up some of her time to do so. So I am very thankful to have a caring and understanding teacher like her. I also thought that this was the best science project of the year.