Metro Detroit woman celebrates success of sorority sister VP Kamala Harris
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. โ All around the world, the image of Vice President Kamala Harris taking the oath of office is having a huge impact. She attended Howard University in the 80s alongside the future vice president and pledged her into Alpha Kappa Alpha. RELATED: Sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority show support for vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarry said she remembers Harris as a focused activist and โa good person of integrity.โSeeing her Sorority sister take the oath of office was a watershed moment. For almost any minority attending an Historically Black College or University in the 80s, it was hard to imagine that you might know a future vice president. She always knew she had a path to success, but with the new vice president, thereโs a new name and picture that points the way on the road map.
NASA astronauts aim for Florida coast to end SpaceX flight
In this image from video made available by NASA, astronauts Doug Hurley, left, and Bob Behnken prepare for undocking from the International Space Station, aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. Space station commander Chris Cassidy rang the ship's bell as Dragon pulled away, 267 miles (430 kilometers) above Johannesburg, South Africa. The astronauts' homecoming will cap a mission that ended a prolonged launch drought in the U.S., which has relied on Russian rockets to ferry astronauts to the space station since the end of the shuttle era. The flag which also flew on the first shuttle flight in 1981 became a prize for the company that launched astronauts first. The next SpaceX crew flight is targeted for the end of September.
Spacewalking astronaut loses mirror, newest space junk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A spacewalking astronaut added to the pieces of junk orbiting the Earth on Friday, losing a small mirror as soon as he stepped out of the International Space Station for battery work. Commander Chris Cassidy said the mirror floated away at about a foot per second. Spacewalking astronauts wear a wrist mirror on each sleeve to get better views while working. Cassidy and Bob Behnken, who followed him out without mishap, were conducting the first of at least four spacewalks to replace the last bunch of old station batteries. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Department of Science Education.
Lone Survivor of Family Massacre Recalls Playing Dead: 'The Room Smelled Like Blood'
Cassidy Stay, the lone survivor of a massacre that claimed the lives of her whole family, took the stand on Tuesday to testify against her uncle, Ronald Haskell. Haskell is accused of killing his ex-wife's sister, Katie Stay, her husband, Stephen Stay, and four of their children in Spring, Texas, 2014. Cassidy, then just 15, was shot in the head but managed to survive by playing dead. He then allegedly killed Stephen before lining up the children and going down the line, shooting them one by one. "It was just 'boom, boom, boom, boom' all in a row," said Cassidy.