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| Astronauts on space station pay tribute to Apollo 12 50th anniversary - collectSPACE.com Posted: 14 Nov 2019 01:35 PM PST  — The astronauts on board the International Space Station paid tribute to the second mission to land humans on the moon — 50 years to the day after the Apollo 12 crew launched. Expedition 61 commander Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (ESA) joined NASA astronauts Drew Morgan, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir in dressing up as Apollo-era flight controllers on Thursday (Nov. 14), wearing white button-down shirts, narrow ties, pocket protectors and black horn-rimmed glasses. "Today, on the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 12, we pay tribute to the flight control and ground support teams and all who worked behind the scenes to enable us to send the first humans to the moon," wrote Meir on Twitter. "We at NASA look forward to returning [to the moon] on Artemis missions!" said Meir, who wore a period-style dress. The Apollo 12 mission, which on Nov. 19, 1969, achieved the first precise landing on the moon — touching down within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 robotic probe — may have not made it much beyond Earth had it not been for the quick actions of Mission Control. Before the mission's Saturn V rocket could boost the crew of Charles "Pete" Conrad, Richard "Dick" Gordon and Alan Bean out of the atmosphere and onto the moon, the vehicle was struck twice by lightning, causing major instrumentation problems aboard the astronauts' spacecraft. Fortunately, John Aaron, an Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager (EECOM) in Mission Control recognized the resulting scrambled telemetry from an earlier test and was able to direct the Apollo 12 crew to an auxiliary power supply ("Try SCE to AUX"). Bean, remembering where the obscure switch was located in the command module's cabin, did as Aaron suggested and was able to bring the spacecraft's electricity-providing fuel cells back online, allowing the almost-aborted mission to continue. Although the Apollo 12 astronauts did not live to see the 50th anniversary of their flight — Conrad died in 1999, Gordon in 2017 and Bean in 2018 — the space station crew's tribute was hailed by current members of NASA's Mission Control, including flight director Royce Renfrew ("Tungsten Flight"), who described it as "Awesomeness" on Twitter. Morgan, who with Parmitano and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov arrived at the space station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 first moon landing on July 20, added to his outfit for Thursday a special patch on loan from the Smithsonian. "His request to us was could he fly some pieces from the collection related to Apollo 11 and Apollo 12. Because of the risk to a flown artifact we have never re-flown something, but as commemoratives go, the two items that we did loan him, the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 patches, seemed appropriate," said Jennifer Levasseur, a curator in the space history division of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. "We really appreciate the amount of effort and thought NASA and the astronauts put in as a crew about how to commemorate these experiences of 50 years ago. The museum is proud to have helped support NASA in this particular educational mission that they have," Levasseur told collectSPACE in an interview. Morgan, who completed his tribute outfit with a white vest similar in style to the one worn by Apollo 11 flight director Gene Kranz (flight director Gerry Griffin was on console for the Apollo 12 launch), said in a pre-flight interview that he was happy to be space for the Apollo 12 anniversary because of a connection he made with one of the crew. "In 1986, when I was in [grade] school in San Antonio, Texas was going through its sesquicentennial and we were writing famous Texans. I wrote to Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean and he wrote back," Morgan told collectSPACE. "The fact that he wrote back to me, I remember thinking that NASA had preselected me to be an astronaut." |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2019 03:58 PM PST CLOSE  LaMia Brown, Sarah's friend, testifies before Judge Mark S. Ali during the trial of Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, who is charged in the death of Sarah Butler, 20, of Montclair, photographed in Essex County Superior Court in Newark, NJ on 10/31/19. North Jersey Record In the end, Khalil Wheeler-Weaver couldn't keep his story straight, police say. The Essex County man, charged with the murder of three women and the attempted killing of a fourth, offered a string of inconsistent statements about his travels with the alleged victims, according to a detective who testified Thursday at Wheeler-Weaver's trial in Newark. The 23-year-old told Montclair police that he picked up one of the women, Sarah Butler, in Glen Ridge, Newark Lt. Michael Krusznis testified. He told Essex County prosecutors he picked her up near the intersection of I-280 and 1st Avenue in Newark, but according to his cellphone records, neither was true, Krusznis said. He told law enforcement that he was with a friend at the time of Butler's murder. "They were in totally different places," according to the detective. The trial's seventh day of testimony focused on cell data and surveillance video that allegedly traced the Orange native's whereabouts in 2016, on nights he spent with some of the four women. Wheeler-Weaver, a former security guard, faces 11 criminal counts for murder, desecrating human remains, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated arson. Cellphone coordinates placed Wheeler-Weaver and a fourth woman, the lone victim to survive an attack, near The Ritz motel in Elizabeth on Nov. 15, 2016, the night of their rendezvous, Krusznis told the jury. Text messages: 'You're not a serial killer, right?' Victim asked Khalil Wheeler-Weaver in text before she died Profile: NJ man on trial 'doesn't look like' a serial killer, but expert says he fits the profile A week later, Wheeler-Weaver's phone pinged on a cell tower near Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, where Sarah Butler's body was later discovered beneath a pile of leaves and sticks. Wheeler-Weaver sported gray khakis, dark-rimmed glasses and black shoes as officers guided him into court on Thursday, clutching a thick brown folder. Surveillance footage shown to the jury displayed a shadowy figure, said to be Wheeler-Weaver, at the Ritz the night he met with the woman authorities have identified as "T.T." The same figure, with a similar gait, is seen on camera near a 7-Eleven store in West Orange on Nov. 22, 2016, with Butler's van nearby. She went missing that night. DNA evidence in the case is scant, in part because Wheeler-Weaver wore gloves for the encounters and used condoms when they had sex, Krusznis testified. "It's November, it's fall," Alexandra Briggs, Wheeler-Weaver's attorney, said of the gloves during cross examination. Prosecutors recalled Krusznis on Thursday to continue his testimony from last week, when he detailed Wheeler-Weaver's alleged cellphone searches for date-rape drugs and deadly poisons. The searches fit Wheeler-Weaver's modus operandi, according to prosecutors. He would meet women for sex and allegedly ambush them a short while later, wrapping their heads in packing tape, covering their noses and mouths, and then strangling them with items of clothing. Prosecutors said "T.T" managed to loosen the tape placed on her by "screaming and crying." "T.T" testified in October that she convinced Wheeler-Weaver to take her back to the Ritz in Elizabeth to retrieve some belongings. Once there, she locked herself alone inside a motel room, but Wheeler-Weaver allegedly fled before police arrived. Email: nobile@northjersey.com Twitter: @tomnobile Read or Share this story: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2019/11/14/nj-serial-killer-suspect-khalil-wheeler-weaver-tracked-cell-data/4196399002/ |
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| Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:15 PM PST  It was 1954, and about 30 Florida A&M University freshmen sat in a classroom during orientation. A student in the back row, W. George Allen, was the first to stand up and introduce himself. Allen said he was the first in his family to attend college. Working in medicine or law would give him satisfaction –– but the way he pronounced "satisfaction" enticed a student in the front row to interject. The student turned and said, "'Satis-fi-cation?' Do you mean 'satis-fact-ion?'" The class broke out into laughter. Allen squinted. "What's your name?" he asked. "Hayward J. Benson Jr." "I hate you." Sixty-five years later, Benson still laughs about the squabble that brought them together. They stayed friends until Allen died at 83 on Nov. 7. "[That] was the kind of fighting spirit that he used throughout his life," Benson, also 83, said. "He is one of the ones who came out of that segregated system and plotted strategies to get others out." Allen graduated from UF's Levin College of Law in 1962, making him the university's first black graduate. He led the legal fight for Broward County and Hendry County integration and later established his own practice specializing in personal injury, insurance defense and wrongful death law, according to Levin Law archives. Allen was born on March 3, 1936, in Sanford, Florida. He was raised in a house without electricity by his mother and stepfather and worked in crop fields as a child, he said in an interview with The History Makers, the nation's largest African American oral history collection. Growing up, Allen was told over and over again that he wouldn't succeed. When he went to Fort Holabird in Baltimore, Maryland, to become a special agent after graduating from Florida A&M, the instructor said nobody in the class would make it. "[Allen] felt the eyes of everybody in the class looking at him, and he said, 'I don't know why the hell you're looking at me. I'm gonna graduate.' And he did," Benson said. When Allen went to law school, the professors told the class nobody would graduate –– but Allen did. He spent 50 years in the industry, he said in a speech at UF in 2015. Allen turned down admissions offers from the University of California in Berkeley and Harvard to go to UF because he wanted to be in the south during the civil rights movement, according to Levin Law archives. Going to school in the south wasn't easy. As the only black student in UF's law school, persevering against racism was a constant struggle. He and his wife couldn't live in married student housing because they were black, and he received constant death threats via telephone, he told Florida Trend in 2013. He told the callers to go to hell. After graduation, Allen tackled cases for equal housing, first-degree murder and desegregation in education, among others. But to those who knew him, he was more than a tenacious lawyer –– he was a respected leader and friend. Patricia West, now 67, first met Allen when she was 8 years old. Her father was a member of the Elks Club with Allen, a group of black professional men that worked with social service agencies to help the community. She remembers him as a snazzy dresser, always in a suit with wire-rimmed glasses and a hat. He looked after West's family after her father died and always made West laugh, she said. "He was a determined kind of guy," West said. "Whatever he set his mind to, he was gonna get it finished." Benson however, saw Allen as a close friend who made amazing hot sauce. The two loved fishing and cast their lines out in Florida, South America, Central America and Alaska, he said. Allen would always eat a Snickers bar when they fished. Benson bought him one when Allen was in the hospital, but he never got the chance to eat it. Benson still has some of Allen's hot sauce in his kitchen. "He's probably mixing some [hot sauce] up now," Benson said. "I'm going to miss my fishing buddy."
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