Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) is an American geologist and
oceanographer, and a former government official and NASA astronaut, who
flew on three Space Shuttle missions. Sullivan was one of six women
selected in NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women.
During her first mission, STS-41-G, Sullivan performed the first
spacewalk by an American woman. On her second, STS-31, she helped deploy
the Hubble Space Telescope. On the third, STS-45, she served as Payload
Commander on the first Spacelab mission dedicated to NASA's Mission to
Planet Earth. Sullivan was Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and
Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration from 2014 to 2017. On June 7, 2020, Sullivan became the
first woman to reach the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the
deepest part of the Earth's oceans. In September 2021, President Joe
Biden appointed her to the President's Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_D._Sullivan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for
killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape
from police custody.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Martyrs>
1924:
The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble stating
that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky
Way, is in fact another galaxy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble>
1976:
Jacques Mayol became the first person to freedive to a depth of
100 metres (330 ft).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mayol>
2011:
Arab Spring: After months of protests in Yemen, President Ali
Abdullah Saleh agreed to transfer power to Vice President Abdrabbuh
Mansur Hadi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
paddock:
1. (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland,
especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
2. (by extension)
3. (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are
paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
4. (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles
are parked and worked on before and between races.
5. (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
6. (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, either
enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a
large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
7. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial
deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for
washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
[...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paddock>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My message and my final message — maybe the final message I
give you from this podium — is that: Please, for your own safety, for
that of your family, get your updated COVID-19 shot as soon as you’re
eligible to protect yourself, your family, and your community. I urge
you to visit
Vaccines.gov to find a location where you can easily get an
updated vaccine. And please do it as soon as possible.
--Anthony Fauci
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci>