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hello and welcome I'm koi wire this is
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slant just the news of the day in 10
minutes time let's get started with some
news about outer space for the first
time a four-person crew of private
astronauts is set to travel into Earth's
radiation belts to conduct the first
commercial space walk this is all part
of spacex's Polaris Dawn Mission a
suspense filled 5-day Trek to parts of
space no human has gone since NASA's
Apollo space program ended in
1972 now the mission was delayed after a
helium leak was detected on a piece of
equipment designed to detach from the
rocket during takeoff it's now scheduled
to take off a day after originally
planned from NASA's k Space Center in
Florida after takeoff the four-person
team is expected to travel into an
oval-shaped orbit aboard the crew Dragon
spacecraft high enough to plunge the
vehicle and crew into the Van Allen
radiation belts the mission will also
aim to reach the highest orbit around
Earth for a crude Mission hoping to
surpass the 1966 record set by NASA's
Gemini 11 accomplishing this would make
the two female crew members the first
women to complete this journey almost
immediately after launch the crew will
begin preparing for a high-risk Space
Walk making use of extra vehicular
activity or Eva suits that SpaceX
developed in Just 2 and 1 half years if
successful it would be the first
spacewalk conducted by non-government
astronauts the Polaris Dawn mission is
part of a series of SpaceX flights
aiming to test new technologies that
Elon musk's company hopes will one day
see humans live and work on other
planets it's one thing to fly to space
it's another thing to do a space walk
until now only NASA or government
astronauts have dared to venture out
into the vacuum of space but that is all
set to change with spacex's Polaris Dawn
Mission funded in part by billionaire
businessman and philanthropist Jared
isaacman who first flew to space 3 years
ago as commander of spacex's inspiration
4 the first all civilian mission to
orbit Jared some people are going to see
the headlines and say you know oh this
is just another billionaire going on a
joy ride to space but what you are doing
is actually quite different the
connotation is often negative but in
reality it's just people taking that
resources that they're L lucky enough to
accumulate in life um and try and do
something positive with it for the
benefit of everyone SpaceX has these
huge objectives and to get there there
is so much that we need to go and solve
and so Polaris is all about Excel
accelerating the technology development
technology like the First new
americanmade extra vehicular activity
suit or Eva suit in more than 40 years
NASA's been trying to get new ones for
its astronauts for two decades SpaceX
developed this one in Just 2 and a half
years and now the entire Polaris Dawn
crew will be testing it in space for the
first time we were all really confident
that you know some iteration of it is
going to be worned by somebody Walking
on Mars someday and and that just makes
it even more of a privilege to be part
of it
while only two members of the polaron
crew will actually leave their dragon
spacecraft all four will be exposed to
the vacuum of space when the dragon
opens its hatch space is literally right
there as you open the hatch and Scott
kid potit is the missions pilot a
retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and
test pilot you've been wanting to go to
space your whole life you call me
old I'm glad I have this crew mission
specialist Sarah Gillis is spacex's lead
astronaut trainer for all Astron that
fly on a dragon final crew member is
Mission specialist and medical officer
Anna Menan also a SpaceX employee whose
life is now in the hands of her
co-workers these are not just Engineers
these are also my friends so I know the
people that are putting us on that
rocket and supporting us from the ground
and I have just the utmost trust in
every single one of them 10 second
trivia in which of these geographical
locations would you find Australia
Oceana Siberia sub Sahara or the
Caribbean oana is your answer here
considered by some countries as a
continent it's the collective name for
the islands scattered throughout the
Pacific we're headed down under to
Australia now for our next story where a
new law is allowing Aussies to ignore
work emails after work hours it's called
the right to disconnect law and it
applies to workers in any company with
more than 15 people the law says that
when employees are off the clock they
don't have to monitor read or respond to
any business related contact like emails
or phone calls with work life balance at
the top of mind for so many people
working at an office many Australians
are embracing this
change for all of Australia's Beauty and
relaxed reputation it might be hard to
imagine that many people here feel
overworked but according to some
lawmakers Australians are working an
average of 6 weeks unpaid overtime every
year and so the government has stepped
in to protect people's right to
disconnect as of Monday people won't
have to answer out of hours calls texts
or emails I think it's actually really
important that we have laws like this we
spend so much of our time connected to
our phones connected to our emails um
all day and I think that it's really
hard to switch off as it is around the
world IL defined job expectations and
constant connectivity has allowed our
jobs to encroach on our private Worlds
the gray areas remain there may be times
the boss still requires an answer but
workers can now defend their right to
disconnect in court if they want to we
are professionals we're well paid we're
expected to deliver and uh we feel we
have to deliver 24 24 hours a day if you
have to so the phone's always on the
computer's always on and and we're
working Australians likely won't forget
work entirely after they leave the
office but more people may feel like
they don't have to be always on meaning
more time to enjoy what is already a
fortunate place to
be all right today is the opening
ceremony for the 2024 paralympic games
happening in Paris at the same venues we
saw on display for the Olympic Games the
athletes or paralympians are grouped
together by how much an impairment like
impaired muscle power or Vision
impairment can limit their activity in
sport some 4,000 paralympians will be
aiming for gold and ahead of these games
I sat down with Team USA's Oxana Masters
one of the most dominant par Olympians
the world has ever seen a 17-time Paro
Olympic medalist competing in both
winter and summer games she was born in
Ukraine with her body damaged from
radiation poison ising from the
Chernobyl nuclear reactor incident she
was adopted moved to the USA in 1997 and
she's been an inspiration ever since
have you ever had a perfect race no I've
never had a perfect race that's I think
I think a lot of athletes are chasing
that perfect race and you know it's it's
not about the gold medal is what makes
the perfect race it's about the whole
process where my first initial thought
isn't my gosh I should have done this
this is what I did wrong and all the
feedback that I have to myself and
criticism that I have to myself so
yeah how do you hope your journey and
you have inspired others I hope that if
it's just one girl so watching she can
look and she can just
like I can do this I belong here you
have to see your dream and you have to
see it to actually believe it in
yourself love that how has being an
athlete changed your life I think the
biggest way it changed my life is it was
that was the journey for for me to love
myself and accept myself and see my body
as powerful and strong it was not an
overnight Journey Sports really taught
me how it was okay to take my legs off
in front of people and to still be
powerful and feel powerful so it was the
Journey of self-discovery and
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love our story getting a 10 out of 10
today is one you dolphinately have to
see to believe a whale watching tour in
San Diego spotted a pot of dolphins
doing some seriously fun stunts and it
was clear that the porpuses were having
a whale of a Time seemingly upping one
another while catching some Big Time air
the video got 9 million views on the
company's Instagram looks like those
folks had an absolutely fantastic Tour
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