Judy Right
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The Last Citizen of the Soviet Union.
On May 18, 1991, Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched aboard Soyuz TM-12 for what was supposed to be a routine five-month mission aboard the Mir space station.
While he floated 250 miles above Earth, the country that sent him into space quietly ceased to exist.
The Soviet Union dissolved on December 26, 1991. His hometown of Leningrad became St. Petersburg. The newly formed Russian space agency, crippled by economic chaos, literally could not afford a return flight.
Krikalev was stranded.
To raise desperate funds, Russia began selling seats on supply missions to other nations, sending up an Austrian cosmonaut and a Japanese journalist, but Krikalev was told he had to remain on board to keep Mir running.
His mission stretched on with no clear end date in sight.
Finally, after 311 agonizing days in orbit, more than double his original plan, a German-funded mission provided the capsule needed to bring him home on March 25, 1992.
When he stepped out onto Kazakh soil, he was still wearing a flight suit with the flag of a nation that no longer existed.
He had left Earth as a Soviet citizen.
He returned a year later as a Russian one.

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The Pacific Ocean is mind-bogglingly vast — it covers more surface area than all of Earth’s continents combined. On most world maps, this is easy to miss because the Pacific gets sliced in half, stretched across both edges of the page. But center the map on the Pacific itself, and the sheer scale hits you: an endless blue expanse that dominates the planet.It spans roughly 63 million square miles (163 million km²), making it by far the largest single feature on Earth. At its widest point — from Indonesia to Colombia — it stretches an astonishing 12,300 miles (19,800 km), nearly half the circumference of the entire globe.But size isn’t just about width. The Pacific also holds about half of all the water in Earth’s oceans, dwarfing the Atlantic in volume. It is home to the deepest place on the planet: the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, plunging nearly 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) below the surface. To put that in perspective, if you dropped Mount Everest into the Challenger Deep, it would still be buried under more than a mile of water.When you grasp its true scale, Earth stops feeling like a world of continents dotted with oceans. Instead, it reveals itself as a true ocean planet — a massive blue sphere where continents and islands are little more than scattered specks floating in an immense, watery wilderness.Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service, “How big is the Pacific Ocean?”

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President Trump again alluded to his desire to annex Canada on Tuesday, calling Canadian Prime Minister Carney “future Governor.” time.com/article/2026/0…
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