Cassidy from space: Looking down at Earth, it s just this blue ball of peace
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In 2020, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy spent 196 days in outer space, where he took part in hundreds of experiments at the International Space Station.
Cassidy also completed his 10th spacewalk and managed to find some time to record videos of himself playing soccer up there.
Then he returned back down to a very different world. Cassidy spoke with
The World s Carol Hills about his experiences.
Carol Hills: Now, I want to jump back to April. At that point, you knew you d soon be on your way up to the International Space Station. But of course, the coronavirus pandemic was then in its early throes. How did that alter your preparation process?
As many of the world’s more developed countries begin vaccinating their populations, African countries are still waiting on their first doses to arrive. And in South Africa, cases are soaring due to a new variant of the virus, with authorities expected to announce new restrictive measures to curb its spread. Host Carol Hills speaks with Dr. Richard Lessells, an infectious disease expert in Durban.
The cartoons of Mohamed Anwar
Untitled, by Mohamed Anwar, Egypt, 2007
This image, one of Mohamed Anwar s early cartoons, shows a person sitting in a chair but the viewer can’t see their face. Anwar drew this cartoon after he saw a fellow cartoonist he admired daring to cross the red line and depict then-President Hosni Mubarak, but from the back. You don’t see Mubarak’s face but everyone knows it’s him. The man we can see is holding the Quran and says to the man in the chair: The infidels want to change your words, your majesty, and make amendments to the constitution!