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12 hours later. 66 miles. And a W in my first 12 hour race 😎 incredibly stoked with today and blessed to have so many amazing people help me

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

People who don’t understand that the outdoor recreation industry generates $1.3 TRILLION in annual revenue in the US alone are not financially literate. Or perhaps literate at all.

Why is CBS not showing the refs calls on these challenges? I don’t want to watch a commercial right up to the next play

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was worth every single penny of his $325 Millon contract.

Every minor thing the Canes do has been called a penalty. 7-2 for those at home #CarolinaCulture

The legendary Clayton Kershaw walks off the Dodger Stadium mound for the final time in his regular-season career 👏

Dominic Canzone is the 2nd player in @Mariners history to have a 5-hit, 3-homer game!

Big Dumper. Big milestone. No. 5️⃣5️⃣ cements Cal as the all-time switch-hitting HR leader! #TridentsUp

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The last Modesto Nuts game ever being played today. Thanks to the fans, the city, and all of the great players and coaches. Sparky, Reggie, Rickey, Tulo, Cal, Julio, Logan, and so many more. Thanks for the great memories and the relationships that mean so much to me. 🤝

There's no way buoy gets paid enough to be getting chased by bears in the offseason

Watch the waves from yesterday’s M8.8 megathrust earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula roll across seismic stations in North America. Just amazing.

The Snow Lab is hiring! We're hiring a Research Scientist to evaluate snowpack mass and energy balance response to precipitation enhancement using the Weather Research and Forecasting Hydrological (WRF-Hydro) and iSnobal models. Details here 👇 linkedin.com/jobs/view/4268…

Abby Hall (adidas Terrex) wins the 2025 Western States 100 in 16:37:16! That registers as the fourth-fastest in race history. She is just elated. #WS100

Let’s go Postal Service!

His neighbors burned his house down, murdered his dog and put its bones on display by his mail box so that he would find them when picking up his mail. Then they gunned him down when he and his husband found their dogs remains. Eat shit NYP

Happy Sunday 🙌 RT for your chance to win a signed puck from the #Canes player of your choice.

THE JETS TIE IT IN GAME 7 WITH 1.6 SECONDS TO GO! x.com/MrMatthew_CFB/…

looking to fill July-August, late October-December 🤍