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NASA confirms U.S. astronaut will return with cosmonauts on Russian spacecraft later this month
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Whereas Russian forces invade Ukraine and the West responds with unprecedented sanctions, an American astronaut is getting ready to hitch a journey with two cosmonauts on a Russian spacecraft again to Earth from the Worldwide Area Station later this month.
Mark Vande Hei, a retired Military colonel, is about to interrupt the document on Tuesday for the longest steady keep in area by a U.S. astronaut earlier than he departs the ISS on March 30.
There have been some fears after Russia invaded Ukraine that the cosmonauts would ditch Vande Hei after they return to Earth in a few weeks.
Dmitry Rogozin, the pinnacle of Russia’s area company Roscosmos and a longtime ally of Putin, posted a video of the US flag being faraway from a Soyuz rocket and has publicly sparred with retired U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly.
In a tweet that has since been deleted, Rogozin allegedly told Kelly that the “dying of the [ISS] will likely be in your conscience.”
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Russian-state media outlet RIA Novosti additionally shared edited footage from the ISS that seems to point out the cosmonauts waving goodbye to Vande Hei and departing with out him earlier than the Russian section detaches from the remainder of the area station.
“It form of enraged me that the nation that we had been on this worldwide partnership for 20 years would take the time to make a video to threaten to depart behind one of many crew members they’re liable for,” Kelly advised the Wall Road Journal this week.
“They agreed to be liable for his security, getting him to the area station and getting him dwelling. For me, that form of simply crossed the road.”
Regardless of the considerations, NASA stated that they’re persevering with to work with their Russian counterparts and Vande Hei will likely be on the Soyuz rocket later this month.
“Now we have on March thirtieth the return of a Soyuz, a return of Anton, Pyotr, and Mark. And I can let you know for positive Mark is coming dwelling on their Soyuz. We’re in communication with our Russian colleagues. There isn’t any fuzz on that,” Joel Mantalbano, this system supervisor for the ISS, stated at a NASA press convention on Monday.
“Our Roscosmos colleagues have confirmed that they are able to carry the entire crew dwelling. All three of them.”
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Roscosmos additionally stated by Russian-state media that the March 30 return would proceed as deliberate.
“Roscosmos has by no means let anyone doubt its reliability as a accomplice,” the area company advised TASS.
The 2 Russians, Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov, will land with Vande Hei in Khazakstan later this month.
Vande Hei and Dubrov initially launched to the ISS final April and are staying twice so long as ordinary to accommodate a Russian movie crew. By the point Vande Hei returns, he can have logged 355 days in area, a brand new U.S. document.
The Biden administration focused Russia’s air and area business within the first spherical of sanctions after Putin invaded Ukraine final month.
“We estimate that we are going to minimize off greater than half of Russia’s high-tech imports, and it’ll strike a blow to their skill to proceed to modernize their army. It would degrade their aerospace business, together with their area program,” Biden stated on Feb. 24.
NASA and area companies in Europe, Japan, and Canada wish to hold the ISS working till 2030, however the Russians haven’t dedicated past 2024.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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Nigel Farage's return to politics causes wrinkle in British election: Why has he proven so successful?
As Britain votes for its next prime minister on Thursday, one expert believes Nigel Farage and his Reform UK Party will help shape British conservative politics in this and future elections.
“He’s going to make noise,” Matthew Tyrmand, a conservative political activist and adviser to political parties across Europe, told Fox News Digital. “He’s obviously a walking billboard on ideas. People follow him, he’s visible, so he will be able to punch well above the weight of the party’s representation in Parliament.”
Tyrmand met Farage 10 years ago at CPAC and since then has regularly spoken with the political maverick throughout his various political endeavors, including Brexit and his latest run for political office.
The Reform UK party, founded in 2018, appointed Farage as leader shortly after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a snap election to take place on July 4. In the past six weeks, Reform has led to an erosion of support for the Conservative Party and will most likely expand its representation in Parliament beyond its current one member: Lee Anderson, who defected from the Conservatives earlier this year.
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Despite those significant gains, Tyrmand suggested that Farage’s influence will largely remain outside of Parliament, for now.
“The contention that he will, you know, be the leader of the opposition, that is an aggressive talking point,” Tyrmand said. “Formally, that will certainly not be the case, but ideologically and in visibility, there will be a case to be made for it.”
“This will set him and Reform up should a Labour government stumble, which I’d be willing to bet that they will do more of the same, whether it’s unfettered immigration or not protecting the working-class people, and wages will still be stagnant,” he added.
Reform has nearly matched the Conservatives in polling, with around 17% support compared to the Conservatives’ roughly 20%, according to The Telegraph’s polling data from Savanta.
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Tyrmand said that in the British system, because of how votes are spread over constituencies, even if Reform ends up taking 10% to 20% of the vote, it could end up having very few seats overall.
“That alone is going to shine a light on the system and how indirectly, unproportionately representative it is, and people [will] be pissed off about that, as they should be,” he said.
Tyrmand argued that Farage’s recent stint on the popular reality show “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here” helped shed a lot of mysticism around his public persona: Farage finished third in a competition in which contestants subject themselves to a series of trials, according to The Guardian.
“People realize he’s not the boogieman that The Sun, The Mirror and The Telegraph and everyone else makes him out to be. The way he campaigns and … watched the football match in the Euro Cup, this is a guy people want to have a beer with,” Tyrmand said.
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“That’s a big part of his appeal and support, but that was really put on steroids after this reality show in December,” Tyrmand added.
The Sun, a newspaper in the U.K. that Pamco Research Group estimated reaches around 8.7 million people per day, endorsed Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over Farage, but it included him in a final plea to the British public.
Normally, only the Labour and Conservative parties would make such bids, and even with a greater presence than Reform, the Liberal-Democrats did not get a chance to make their own pitch.
Farage, in his final plea, said swapping support from the Conservatives to Labour would only “change middle management” and “Britain’s elites are happy to see Keir Starmer replace Rishi Sunak.”
“I am serious about breaking up their rotten two-party system,” Farage wrote. “After Thursday, Reform UK can be the real opposition in Parliament. We will hold Starmer to account over his plans to open Britain’s borders to even more immigration and betray Brexit by taking the knee to the EU.”
“And this is just the start,” he added. “Over the next five years, I am serious about building a mass movement for real change. A vote for Reform UK is not a protest vote, it’s not a fantasy vote, it’s not a wasted vote. It’s a vote to change Britain for good.”
Farage has run seven times for a seat in the British Parliament and failed to win, but he found success in the European Parliament as the European MP for South East England in the United Kingdom Independence Party.
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UK general election: Voting under way in high-stakes poll
UK voters began registering ballots at polling stations at 7 am local time on Thursday morning, in the first UK general election since the country’s formal exit from the European Union. Stay up to date with the process with our live blog, bringing you the latest news until the final results tomorrow
The 650 seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs in an election that has already been forecast – even by some governing Conservatives – as likely to result in a Labour victory.
Conservative incumbent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks likely to be replaced by Labour leader Keir Starmer on the basis of polling leading up to the election.
We’ll track the day as it progresses and leaders of the key party factions vote, explaining how the voting system works and bringing up to the minute news as it trickles in.
Might the Tories suffer a historic defeat? Might the Liberal Democrats be able to seize a significant tranche of seats and claim as many seats the Conservatives in the new parliament? What will the result mean in Scotland, where Labour is looking to snatch influence from a scandal-stricken Scottish National Party? In Northern Ireland, will a changing political picture affect the future of the province and its delicate position straddling UK and EU politics.
Stay with us through to the first exit poll, which will be unveiled by British broadcasters at 11pm in Europe, and beyond as key results trickle through overnight and as leaders and commentators react to the unfolding drama.
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