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Tripscan

2025-07-11T15:50:33Z

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== tripscan ==
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On June 14, finding the roads blocked, Kang canceled her plans to travel to northern Iran and stayed home playing card games and cooking with her host family. While seated on the carpets woven with Isfahan patterns, they served her bread, tea and traditional Iranian foods, while she treated them to Chinese spicy hotpot, known as malatang, and to milk tea.

That was the last homestay before her long journey out of the country.

In the early morning of June 15, she set off to Tehran by bus. On the way, Kang says a police officer stopped the vehicle for a security check, and she was asked to put on a headscarf.
“Approaching Tehran, I saw black smoke, which scared me,” she says.

Arriving in the Iranian capital at 2 p.m., she jumped from one bus stop to another, seeking help from locals for tickets to the northwestern city of Tabriz.

“I heard sounds of gunfire, and then a lady at the bus stop screamed. I was pretty calm though… I heard gunfire from far away every 10 minutes,” she says.

Although some residents looked frustrated, she says the city was quite calm. During a visit to one restaurant, everyone appeared to be carrying on as normal. However, she says her inability to speak Farsi made it difficult to get a real sense of how people truly felt about the situation.
“Around 50 years ago, this place was known as the ‘Little Paris of the Middle East’,” she says. “Now, most people seem to carry a sense of gloom, complaining about the government. Some strike me as highly talented and speak excellent English, yet they feel suppressed by the government and lack the means to travel abroad.”

Kang finally got on a bus departing from Tehran at 10 p.m. and fell asleep. The next morning, she awoke to discover the bus had traveled less than 100 kilometers, caught in congested traffic with masses of people leaving the capital. In total, it took her around 15 hours to arrive in Tabriz.

“I was tired and hungry,” she says, adding that there was no bathroom on board the bus. After a few more struggles due to language barriers, she eventually found another bus to Maku. From there, she was able to take a taxi to the Turkish border. Crossing into Turkey at midnight, it then took another 22 hours to get to Istanbul, where she was able to catch a flight to Taiwan.

Orbiter finance

2025-04-11T16:02:57Z

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== orbiter finance ==
A few firsts
This trip is privately funded, and such missions allow for SpaceX’s customers to spend their time in space as they see fit. For Fram2, the crew traveled to orbit prepared to carry out 22 research and science experiments, some of which were designed and overseen by SpaceX. Most of the research involves evaluating crew health.
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Upon the splashdown return off the coast of California, for example, the crew carried out an “egress experiment.”

That objective tested the passengers’ ability to exit their spacecraft on their own after returning to Earth. After most human spaceflight missions, astronauts are aided by personnel on the ground. (However, most of these missions carry astronauts to the space station, where they live in microgravity for months, which means returning crew must readapt to Earth’s gravity.)
One at a time, the passengers tested getting out of their seats by themselves, taking off their foot rests, and bending down to grab their survival gear, which weighed about 35 pounds, according to Marissa Rosenberg, a senior medical research engineer at SpaceX, who provided commentary during a webcast of the Fram2 splashdown.

The egress experiment was just one of the “firsts” related to this splashdown. Another involved the landing site: A crewed SpaceX mission has never returned from space and splashed down off the coast of California. The company’s crewed missions so far have returned near Florida.

SpaceX has said it would move its recovery operations to the West Coast for safety reasons. The Dragon capsule had to eject a cylindrical attachment at its base — called the trunk — as it reentered the atmosphere. Returning from space in California helped ensure that piece of hardware was safely disposed of in the ocean, rather than risking its disposal over land.

What the Fram2 crew did in space
Satellites are routinely launched into orbit around Earth’s poles. So while the Fram2 crew’s view from space had previously been captured, it was experienced through human eyes for the first time during this flight.

No crewed mission had ever traveled directly over the planet’s poles from Earth orbit. The frigid caps of our home planet are invisible to humans on board the International Space Station, for example, which orbits near Earth’s equatorial line.