just a fraction. and now, nasa has confirmed that this has altered its orbit. it now takes 11 hours and 23 minutes. that s a huge decrease of 32 minutes. if you wanted to do this in the future, potentially, it could potentially work, but you d want to do it years in advance. warning time is really key here in order to enable this sort of asteroid deflection to potentially be used in the future. another close encounter of this asteroid is already planned. in two years, europe will send a spacecraft to study the crater left by the crash helping us to see if this really is an effective way of defending our planet. rebecca morelle, bbc news. one of the last remaining stars of hollywood s golden age, the actress angela lansbury, has died at the age of 96. the family said she died at her home in los angeles. she was best known for starring as a
you will pay for this you nasa is i supporter. i have been called a disgusting pig of a woman i should rot in hell. our rural shop out in ontario someone draped a large bed sheet over our sign, i m sorry. it s been a tough few days. and the sign read tammy supports terrorists. now, mama bear is going to dig out her claws on that one. we are getting the video surveillance of the incident and we will pursue that with the police. but late yesterday afternoon, messages of support and encouragement started to arrive and people from coast to coast to coast throughout canada and the u.s. and, you know, [inaudible] online and calling themselves guardian angels.
as the ceo of amazon, has announced his first thing that he s going to do is travel into space himself. it won t be in space long, he ll be getting to what is technically space but on the sub orbital flight, meaning he s coming back to earth after four minutes of weightlessness. bezos is going by july 20th anniversary of the moon landing not to be outdone bridge branson has announced that he is also going into space on a sub orbital flight, and he s getting their first. he plans to beat bezos to space by nine days. and it the idea of billionaires racing each other to the upper reaches of the atmosphere makes you feel a little achy, there is at least one amazing thing happening that might make it seem a little bit more palatable. jeff pesos is bringing three people with him, his brother, as a yet unnamed winner of an auction for a seat, and someone who arguably deserves the chance more than any other human. now, let s go back a bit to the very dawn of the space program in the 19 fifties
astronaut candidate. in 1995, when astronaut eileen collins was the first woman to pull a space shuttle mission, seven members out of that original group of 13 women came to florida as her invited guests to watch the launch. wally funk herself says she applied to nasa s astronaut program for time after they started letting women in. she says she was turned down for lack of an engineering degree. since then, she has jumped on every opportunity to try to make it to a space. including several years ago when she thought richard branson was going to be the billionaire to get her there. but now, this week, jeff bezos announced that wally funk is getting a seat on his ship, aptly named the new shepherd, after the first american man to achieve sub orbital flight, allen shepard. so if all goes well, more than 60 years after that life magazine story kindle the hopes of a young pilot from oklahoma, one of the first female astronaut hopefuls may finally get her chance to fly high. that does it for
and a half hours floating in a sensory deprivation tank, while the mercury seven, only had to do three hours sitting in a dark room. here s how she described it in an oral history project for nasa. what would i do in a tank of water, and the humidity of the room was so perfectly control to my temperature that i couldn t feel the water on my hands or on my face because there was no hearing, smell all your senses were taken away from you. and you were to stay in there for as long as possible and i broke the record of ten hours and 45 minutes. facing those tests was where the dream of becoming an astronaut ended for wally funk and other women. the next set would ve been flight training but that would ve required sign off from you nasa and the new u.s. military. that sign off never came. women would not be allowed can become nasa astronauts until the late 1970s when sally ride was named the first female