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The Launching of The Odysseus
February 23, 2024
Kaitlin Holmes
Staff Reporter
A United States made space craft has landed on the moon for the first time in 50 years.
On February 15th, at the Kennedy Space center in Florida, at 1:05am Eastern Standard Time, the Odysseus M1-1 was launched into space for its mission to land on the moon.
Created by the Intuitive Machines company, this spacecraft made history as of February 22nd, at 6:23pm EST. The time from launch to landing was seven days, with the landing one hour earlier than expected. This lunar lander’s mission is to conduct experiments on the moon and deliver “payloads” from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as said by the AL Jazeera Staff on the ALJazeera website. The goal is for Odysseus to see if the frozen water on the south of the moon can be used for future missions, like the Artemis program.
Odysseus continues to make history as it used a very difficult method to land. The method used is called soft-landing, it is a maneuver in which the spacecraft lands gently on the moon to prevent any damage to the lander. This maneuver has only been achieved by a few countries, and now the United States has joined the list.
The Odysseus moon lander is currently having communication issues, but on the spacecraft was a camera that would have been launched onto the lunar surface to have the first 3rd person recording of a lunar landing in history. So, with more updates, we could possibly watch this historic event from a new angle.
So far, Odysseus has been much more successful than the spacecraft that was launched last month. Hopefully, full and complete communications will be restored with Odysseus, so mankind can make another big step.
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Raynham Hall
February 22, 2024
Addy Kennedy
Staff Reporter
The Raynham Hall can be found in Norfolk, England. The Raynham Hall is a mansion that was constructed in the 1600s. The mansion was supposed to be the home of Roger Townshend, but he died in 1637 which is the year construction for Raynham Hall was finished.
Following the English Civil War, the family played a huge part in the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Sir Horatio, the younger brother of Sir Roger, accompanied the newly restored King Charles II to England after restoring the monarchy. According to Raynham Estate, George Townshend, the third Viscount’s eldest son, served as Viceroy of Ireland from 1767 to 1771. The second son of the third Viscount, Charles Townshend became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1772.
The first ever ghost sighting was in 1735 at a party. According to The Little House of Horrors this ghost is called The Brown Lady and is the spirit of Lady Dorothy Walpole. She was Charles Townshend’s second wife. They married in 1713, but there were rumors that the marriage was not a happy one. Charles was known to have a violent temper. The main legend is that Charles caught Dorothy cheating and punished her by locking her away.
Also, stated on The Little House of Horrors are some other apparitions that are said to haunt Raynham Hall. There is a caretaker, the caretaker’s cocker spaniel, two children, and the Duke of Monmouth. The thing that connects the Duke of Monmouth to Raynham is his friendship with Sir Roger.
This is some history on Raynham Hall. Though no one is certain what rumors are true and which ones are not, it is still an interesting story. However, it is not open to the public, but they do private tours.
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The Ethics of Capital Punishment
February 27, 2024
Ayla Cuskic
Staff Reporter
Do you think capital punishment is ethical? Capital punishment is the most extreme form of retribution and is a topic that still sparks debates on its ethicality even after being around as far back as the eighteenth Century.
Capital punishment more known as the death penalty is the process of sentencing someone to death for a capital crime. As of 2023, there was 2331 people sentenced to death row. Now as of February 2024, there is 38 people that are scheduled for the death penalty.
Now there are many different views on the ethicality of capital punishment. The people that think capital punishment is ethical usually defend it on the fact that putting these murders to death is protecting society by making sure that person will cause no further harm to anyone. Another reason capital punishment is defended is the some believe that if someone has committed murder, since they have taken a life, they are forfeiting their own right to live. This is going off the idea of Hammurabi's “eye for an eye” concept.
But why do people think capital punishment is unethical? People can argue that Capital punishment is morally wrong. Along with that people say that the execution of the practice goes against the ethics of the doctor who performs it. They also argue that the death penalty is barbaric, inhuman, and a violation of a humans right to live.
Even with all different options on the ethics of Capital punishment it is still legal in 27 states including Arizona.
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January 26, 2024
Jackson Unger
Staff Reporter
“We choose to go to the moon. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard,” as famously stated by President John F. Kennedy. NASA scientists and engineers alike work tirelessly to spearhead the Artemis program for humanities return to lunar landscape by 2026. Apollo 11 was the first crewed landing on the lunar surface in July of 1969, but since the end of Apollo 17, only three years after the successful landing, no manned mission had been launched or planned until recently.
According to NASA’s website, the new Artemis program plans on re-establishing a human presence on our closest celestial body by landing the first female and person of color on the lunar surface. As stated by the website, the Artemis program’s goal is for scientific discovery and economic benefit. Also, they want to inspire the next generations to continue to explore the stars and set up a long-term presence on the lunar body.
According to NASA Administrator, Bill Nelson, 2024 will be a plan to test the first payloads and scientific instruments for astronauts to use on future lunar missions. Along with that NASA is shooting for September 2025 to be the launch date of Artemis II. This will carry astronauts, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist 1 Christina Hammock Koch, and Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen, to the lunar body where they will orbit the moon before returning to Earth.
Artemis III, with a planned launch date of September 2026, will carry the first humans to set foot on the lunar surface since the end of the Apollo program more than 50 years ago. Although NASA is spearheading the program, the Artemis missions are an international collaboration with the SLS rocket used for the program being designed all around the globe. Even independent organizations have discussed cooperation with NASA on its endeavors, including Space X and Blue Origin. For those interested to learn more there is more information under the Artemis section on the NASA website.
Image Credit: https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/artemis-4
Onward and Upward
Climate Change
February 29, 2024
Andrea Zamora
Staff Reporter
First off, what is climate change? Climate change is the long-term changes in our global temperatures and other things in our atmosphere. Climate change started to become an issue around 1988. There was a charge driven largely by the increase of carbon dioxide emissions that were going into our atmosphere. The main cause of climate change is deforestation, burning oils, chemical fertilizers, pollution and release of industrial waste in the air, and more.
Many People ask why does it affect us? Climate change has a big effect on us. It affects the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, etc. Climate change makes our temperatures different. The heat makes the snow we have be reduced and the sea ice, it makes heavy rainfall, and it changes the habitat ranges for animals and plants.
Climate change is getting worse every day and destroying many living organisms, including humans. We need to cut our greenhouse gas emissions fast before it affects us more. If we don’t the ice is going to melt and that would cause floods. And the change in weather will cause serious damage.
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Gamma Ray Bursts: Deadliest Things in Space
September 6, 2023
Kaitlin Holmes
Staff Reporter
Gamma-ray bursts have been an incredibly enriching and informative event in space. The effect these bursts have on space and on humanity can be catastrophic. These bursts, that only last a few seconds, can create black holes and end all life on earth without a problem.
Gamma-ray bursts are violent, typically short bursts of intense energy that shoot out into space. GMBs are usually caused by the collisions of neutron stars, which create black holes once the two masses release energy. The light that is released from these explosions can be a million trillion times brighter than the sun, according to NASA.
The bursts can fall into two different categories; long-duration and short-duration bursts. Amazingly, long-duration bursts can last around two seconds to a few minutes. Short-duration bursts can last from two seconds to only a few hundred milliseconds, as further explained by NASA.
GMBs can be incredibly dangerous because they can never be detected until the burst is too close. For example, it is believed that a GMB that hit earth 440 million years ago, was so powerful that it caused the mass extinction of the Ordovician period. According to the APSnews website, Brian Thomas, from the University of Kansas, has stated that the burst could have helped in the depletion of the ozone layer. GMBs can vary in its strength because gamma-ray bursts hit earth at least once every day, and humans are still alive. The bursts are normally unnoticed, but if there happened to be a burst a bit too strong, we would already be gone before we could even move a finger. More information, including a video example, can be found on the NASA website, at https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/bursts1.html.
Image Credit: UC Burkeley Physics
World Carnivore Month
January 31, 2024
Jessica Serrano
Staff Reporter
What is World Carnivore Month? Carnivore is a dietary challenge that people do for the whole month of January. This challenge was created by Shawn Baker, who is also known as Carnivore King. This is the eighth year of the world carnivore month. The rule of the carnivore diet is that you must eliminate all plant foods from your diet and exclusively eating healthy sources of meat (nose to tail, so eat your organ meats), fish, eggs, raw honey, fruit, sea salt, and a lot of raw dairy products according to rawfarmusa.com. The reason Shawn Baker decided to dedicate a month to just eating meat was because he was beginning to experience joint pain and poor body composition. So, he chooses to experiment with different diets like low carb paleo diet, high -fat ketogenic diet and keto. Then he found out about the all- meat carnivore diet and continued to use it. Shawn Baker quotes “As an athlete and doctor, Baker closely monitored his performance and health variables while on these different eating plans. After a two-month elimination diet of only meat, salt, water. Dr. Baker’s symptoms resolved, and he felt like he was in the best health of his life”. The world carnivore diet could also help you in a way.
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On The Edge of Space
January 30, 2024
Jackson Unger
Staff Reporter
After Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the world forever changed as space travel was just beginning. In America, they started space travel following the Mercury program that had put the first American in space, Alan Shepard Jr., which ultimately was succeeded by Gemini in 1961. However, the Gemini spaceflights, being some of the most crucial for the United States, had been forgotten by the public of NASA’s Apollo 11 and space shuttle flights.
Starting in 1961, a new program was born with the set goal of testing new equipment and practices to be used in future space exploration including Artemis. The first flight of the program launched on April 8th, 1964, and the first flight with crew members onboard was Gemini 3 in March of 1965. According to Britannica Encyclopedia, the following flights are the most interesting part of the program.
Gemini 4, the first American, Edward White, to walk in space. Gemini 7, longest endurance record of all programs as 13 days and 19 hours. Gemini 12 had Edward “Buzz” Aldrin make 3 successful space walks. Most interesting of all was Gemini 8 piloted by Neil Armstrong successfully docked 2 spacecraft together with an eventually aborted mission. It had been caused by a faulty thruster causing the capsule to begin rotating at approximately one rotation a second!
Fortunately, thanks to Neil’s skilled handling of the vessel, the rotation was stopped before both crew members could become incapacitated. Following this accident, all future space capsules featured different wiring systems that created a safer environment for the astronauts. The pilots of the Gemini program, Michael Collins, Edward “Buzz” Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong would be the crew of Apollo 11 where Neil would say his famous quote, “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
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Man Arrested For Attempted Kidnapping in Glendale
February 1, 2024
Justine Ballard
Staff Reporter
Last Friday, January 26th, 37-year-old Joseph Leroy Ruiz was arrested for attempting to kidnap a child near Sunset Elementary School that same morning. According to azfamily.com, the victim was an 11-year-old girl who says she saw the man near her apartment at around 7:55, when she began making her way to school.
Police spoke with the victim, and she described the events that took place that morning. According to reports from both azfamily.com and azcentral.com, she says the man was sitting on a staircase by her apartment when she left her house for school. She described the man and stated that he gave her an “odd look” that made her extremely uncomfortable, which lead her to rush out of her apartment complex.
Shortly after she stopped running, a silver car pulled next to her. She saw the person driving looked like the man she had seen before, causing her to run and scream for help. The man then chased her for a short distance before she made it to a group of students who comforted and protected her.
A video of the event was caught by neighborhood security cameras. The video shows exactly what was described by the victim. Police found a suspect matching the man in the video and the girl’s description of him later that day. Joseph Leroy Ruiz was arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping.
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The Colorado Ballot Situation
January 31, 2024
Ryan Thomas
Staff Reporter
Donald Trump’s name has been removed from the ballots in the state of Colorado’s primary elections. The details of primary elections vary by state, but the gist is that primary elections determine the names of the official presidential candidates in that state. Therefore, nobody in the state of Colorado would be able to vote for Donald Trump under this decision.
This decision was controversial from the start. The initial verdict ruled against Donald Trump, removing his name from the ballot based on criteria set by a Civil War era law meant to “bar anyone who has betrayed an oath to uphold the Constitution from becoming President of the United States”. This decision was quickly appealed, and the appellate court ruled in favor of Trump, reinstating his name on the ballot. However, this case went all the way up to the Colorado Supreme Court, which struck down the appealed verdict, removing Trump from the primary elections once again.
The U.S. Supreme Court has since agreed to hear this case. Many people were surprised by this announcement, as there had not yet been an official appeal to the Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court also has the authority to hear cases that are a “matter of national importance”, which the Justices have decided this case is.
Several other states have attempted similar action, but the only state to successfully follow Colorado’s lead so far has been Maine.
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Present Day Ukrainian-Russian War
February 5, 2024
Em Pearson
Editor-in-Chief
On February 24th, 2022, the Russian military troops entered their neighboring country, Ukraine. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, had the goals of the invasion to “demilitarize and denazify” Ukraine and not occupy it by force. Tensions between the two Slavic countries have increased since the invasion, becoming a war not long after.
The war between the two countries is still going on today, though many people are currently more focused on the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Since 2022, 10,191 deaths have occurred as 19,139 injured citizens have happened for the Ukrainian side. The Russian Federation suffered a loss close to 500,000.
Millions of lives lost and injured in this war, but more concerns about this war getting worse by the day have been popping up all over the place. Russian forces are being aided by North Korea as seen by the White House with released satellite imagery. Pyongyang has, as early as 2022, been sending the warring country artillery shells for the war in Ukraine. On September 14, 2023, the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, promised the Russian president the full support of North Korea.
As of 2024, neither countries have been determined the winner of this war. If it continues, many can only hope that one country comes out on top to end this now two-year war of aggression between the two.
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