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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.

@JoJoFromJerz The fact you trust anything from Iranian state TV says it all

We’ve gotten more information about our downed aircraft from the Iranian government than we have gotten from our own.

@MarioNawfal @officialrnintel Unconfirmed, but sure, keep pushing their propaganda

@OhioTate Is there a bigger moron at @barstoolsports than Rico?

BREAKING NEWS: Rico put the wrong address into the Uber and we are now in the suburbs, over 10 miles away from the location of Barstool Live. Depending on traffic in downtown Indianapolis, Bosco may be late to the show.

@0hour1 Mario too busy propping up Iran's success to know this

They already rescued them.

Exactly seven years two months and 26 days since Gavin Newsom became governor of California. California is: #1 in homelessness #1 in poverty #1 in Retail crime #1 in gas prices #1 in illiteracy #1 in wage stagnation #1 in frivolous lawsuits #1 in unemployment #2 in housing costs #2 in water bills #1 in restrictions on workers #1 in Anti-business regulations #3 in energy/electricity costs #3 in inequality #1 in income tax #1 in gas tax #1 in budget deficit #2 in educational inequity #1 in COVID school shutdowns #1 in COVID business shutdowns #1 in COVID mandates #1 in illegal border crossings #1 in funding for illegal immigrants #1 in People leaving state

@unusual_whales Wow, BIG, if true

China says US, Israeli attacks on Iran are the 'root cause' of Hormuz blockage

@OhioTate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

BREAKING NEWS: “Excuse me, I need to talk to Mr. Mayrose” There is a mechanical issue on the jet and it has been deemed not able to fly today. Teterboro is currently looking for a different airplane in the area, but at the moment, the #RicoRydeAlong is on hold.

@JoJoFromJerz Complete opposite, actually

The entire world is laughing their asses off at us right now.

@MarioNawfal @KobeissiLetter Panicans

🇺🇸 25 minutes after Trump’s address to the nation, $550 billion in market cap was wiped off S&P futures! That’s got to be one of the most expensive talks in history. Source: @KobeissiLetter

@smartyd8 @JoJoFromJerz 😘😘

@jutt_hawks @JoJoFromJerz

What the fuck was that?

@harryjsisson You and @JoJoFromJerz exchange the email bit?

That Trump speech was completely useless. Could’ve been an email. He lied, said he’s amazing, and that was about it. If you didn’t watch it, you didn’t miss anything. Carry on!

@krassenstein Oops

BREAKING: Fox News reports that Trump will inform the American public during his National address that the deployment of ground troops may be necessary. Did you vote for this?

@MarioNawfal I'm old enough to remember when you said Iran was winning..

Make no mistake of it, Iran is getting pummeled I’d be very surprised if they don’t accept Trump’s off-ramp

@Polymarket NASA sucks

BREAKING: NASA has stopped the Artemis II launch countdown with 10 minutes to go in order to investigate issues.

@MarioNawfal This is 2 day old news at this point

🇺🇸 Trump is now willing to end the war even if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed. In just one month, traffic through the strait has collapsed by 95%, from ~140 ships per day to fewer than 5. That’s roughly half a billion barrels of petroleum products kept off the global market. Oil is already over $100–$114, diesel is spiking, and analysts are openly talking about $150–$200 oil if this drags on. The crazy part? Ending the war without reopening the strait would basically make Iran’s blockade permanent, turning the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a tollbooth run by Tehran. That’s not a win. That’s handing over control of 20% of global oil supply. The market is still pretending this is temporary. It might not be. Source: The Wall Street Journal

@stoolpresidente @BarstoolBigCat Is there a bigger turd in the company than Bosco?

I am once again confused. Did Bosco quit cause he was too busy (which he’s not) or cause he hated the show?

@SciNatureNews @MarioNawfal Lol

@MarioNawfal Iran’s precise strike shows determination to defend sovereignty and respond to repeated attacks proving aggressors cannot act with impunity anymore

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴 Insane footage out showing the moment an Iranian missile hit a U.S. base in Jordan in early March.

BREAKING: Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs just ruled the Trump administration must restore the legal status of potentially close to a million migrants who came into our country through the Biden-era CBP One App