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NASA has named Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio, and Andre Douglas as the crew for Artemis III, which has been reworked from a moon-landing mission into a roughly two-week Earth-orbit test of lunar landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin. NBC News reports: Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas are expected to launch into Earth orbit next year, with the goal of testing two commercially developed lunar landers that are slated to carry astronauts to the surface of the moon during the Artemis IV mission in 2028. Bresnik will be the mission's commander, with Parmitano, an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency, serving as the pilot. Douglas and Rubio will be mission specialists, and Bob Hines will train with the crew as a backup member. "This test flight will enable us to prove we can carry out highly choreographed operations with our partners across hardware interfaces, software propulsion systems and life support elements with crew in the high-stakes space environment," Jeremy Parsons, NASA's Artemis program manager, said during NASA's announcement on Tuesday.
Bresnik has been to the International Space Station twice, most recently as commander of an expedition in 2017. A retired U.S. Marine colonel, he was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2004. Bresnik has helped oversee development and testing of spacecraft for the Artemis program as an assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Office, which manages astronaut training and operations. Parmitano has also done two stints on the ISS and served as commander of an expedition in 2019. He has completed a total of six spacewalks and also performed the first live DJ set in orbit. Before becoming an astronaut, Parmitano was a test pilot for the Italian air force.
For Rubio, a physician with 28 years of service in the Army, Artemis III will be his second trip to space. From 2022 to 2023, he spent 371 days on the space station, breaking the record for longest-duration spaceflight by an American, according to NASA. Douglas is the only crew member making his spaceflight debut. An engineer who previously worked on space exploration and robotics at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, he became a NASA astronaut in 2022. Douglas was the backup crew member for the Artemis II mission around the moon earlier this year. He told NBC News in an interview after Tuesday's announcement that the role had at times been a challenge. "It was hard to figure out how do you balance getting ready to go, not go, all that stuff," he said. "But to go now is just fantastic."
Bresnik has been to the International Space Station twice, most recently as commander of an expedition in 2017. A retired U.S. Marine colonel, he was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2004. Bresnik has helped oversee development and testing of spacecraft for the Artemis program as an assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Office, which manages astronaut training and operations. Parmitano has also done two stints on the ISS and served as commander of an expedition in 2019. He has completed a total of six spacewalks and also performed the first live DJ set in orbit. Before becoming an astronaut, Parmitano was a test pilot for the Italian air force.
For Rubio, a physician with 28 years of service in the Army, Artemis III will be his second trip to space. From 2022 to 2023, he spent 371 days on the space station, breaking the record for longest-duration spaceflight by an American, according to NASA. Douglas is the only crew member making his spaceflight debut. An engineer who previously worked on space exploration and robotics at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, he became a NASA astronaut in 2022. Douglas was the backup crew member for the Artemis II mission around the moon earlier this year. He told NBC News in an interview after Tuesday's announcement that the role had at times been a challenge. "It was hard to figure out how do you balance getting ready to go, not go, all that stuff," he said. "But to go now is just fantastic."
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Unverified reports suggested that a defense plant and an oil refinery were among the sites targeted in the overnight airstrikes.
Geen palmbomen. Geen taupe. Geen twijfel. Anna Murphy, modedirecteur van The Times, heeft genoeg van mannen die hun koffer inpakken alsof het 2008 is. In een opvallend stuk dinsdag levert ze geen suggesties, maar instructies. "Je hebt geen keuzes nodig, je hebt oplossingen nodig", schrijft ze. Hieronder de complete lijst — vertaald naar de Nederlandse zomer van 2026.
"Vraag jezelf bij twijfel af wat George Clooney zou doen. Het antwoord is: nooit een overhemd met een palmboom erop dragen." — Anna Murphy, The Times
De 13 items op een rij
- Superlichte chino — M&S, vanaf 45 pond, in "donker petrol" of "donker mole"
- Korte chino-broek — M&S, 30 pond
- Barrel cut-broek — Uniqlo, 39,90 pond, voor wie wijder wil zitten
- Effen linnen overhemd — Cos, 75 pond, in diverse kleuren
- Korte mouw met subtiele print — Kestin (Schotland), 139 pond — uitdrukkelijk geen palmbomen
- Chambray blouse (co-ord) — Chelsea Peers, 45 pond
- Bijpassende short (co-ord) — Chelsea Peers, 40 pond
- Zwemshort met textuur — Chelsea Peers, 40 pond, in marineblauw, kaki of "gammon-roze"
- Lichte chore jacket in helder blauw — & Sons "Blue Bolt", 180 pond
- Chore jacket in zachte ecru — Kestin "Ormiston", 209 pond
- AIRism T-shirt — Uniqlo, 14,90 pond
- Tortoiseshell aviator-zonnebril — Jimmy Fairly "Elma", 135 pond
- Leren visserssandalen — Jones Bootmaker, 55,20 pond (van 69)
Bonus uit Murphy's stuk: een culturally significant baseballpet uit de V&A-collectie van Gavin O'Connell (35 pond). "Psychoanalyseer dat", sneert ze.
Linnen is geen mode-keuze meer — het is een gezondheidsstrategie
Huidkanker is sinds 1990 in Nederland verviervoudigd. Jaarlijks krijgen ruim 70.000 Nederlanders de diagnose, en circa 900 mensen overlijden eraan — het RIVM noemt Nederland een Europese koploper in melanoom-incidentie. Lange linnen mouwen, een breed shirt en een echte pet (geen baseball-knipoog) doen wat zonnebrand maar half doet: ze houden uv-straling fysiek tegen. Dat de Britse modepers en het KWF dit jaar dezelfde paklijst voorschrijven, is geen toeval — het is voortschrijdend inzicht.
De duiding: Murphy's lijst leest als snobistische Britse instructie, maar functioneert in Nederland als gezondheidsadvies in vermomming. De moderne man hoeft niet te kiezen tussen er goed uitzien en zijn huid sparen.
Het natuurlijke klimaatfenomeen El Niño is begonnen, meldt de Japanse meteorologische dienst. De komende maanden zal het water van de Stille Oceaan langs de evenaar steeds sterker opwarmen, terwijl passaatwinden juist afzwakken, waardoor de opwarming verder wordt versterkt. De piek van het fenomeen is over het algemeen in december. Klimaatwetenschappers voorzien ditmaal extra grote gevolgen voor meerdere regio's.
Zo kan El Niño leiden tot een latere start van het regenseizoen in India, meer droogte en bosbranden in Australië en lagere oogstopbrengsten in delen van Afrika en Azië. Specialisten voorzien dit jaar een zeer sterke El Niño.
Voor Europa zijn de effecten kleiner. "In Spanje en Portugal valt in de herfst bij El Niño iets meer regen. In het voorjaar na een sterke El Niño krijgen we in Nederland en verder naar het oosten vaak een nat voorjaar, terwijl Oost-Spanje dan iets droger en warmer is", zegt het KNMI erover.
De vorige El Niño, in 2023, droeg bij aan wereldwijde recordhitte.
One of Europe’s two major next-gen fighter aircraft programs has been hit hard by differences between France and Germany, the two main participants, leaving the UK-Italy-Japan's Tempest as the main contender. Reports say that the Future Combat Air System (FCAS, or Système de Combat Aérien du Futur – SCAF – in French) has been shelved by German Chancellor Merz and French President Macron. The program dates back to at least 2017, and was expected to produce a test flight of a technology demonstration airframe by 2026 or 2027, with the aircraft coming in to operational service by 2040. According to German publication Der Spiegel, the French firm Dassault and the European Airbus group could not agree on how to divide up the work on the project, nor on the patent rights for new developments. However, it is also understood there were differences in the requirements, with France needing a replacement for the Rafale jet that must be capable of operating from an aircraft carrier, while the Germans were beginning to question the need for any crewed fighter aircraft in light of drone developments. French publication Le Monde says Merz and Macron "reached the shared assessment that the companies will not be able to come together on building a joint combat aircraft.” It goes on to say that other parts of the wide-ranging project will continue. This refers to FCAS being more than just about a single aircraft; the program also envisioned drone aircraft to accompany the crewed fighter, and a communications system "combat cloud" to link them together, described as a "nervous system that networks aircraft, drones and other components into an integrated whole." The program also drew participation from other European nations, such as Spain and Belgium, and it isn’t clear what these nations will choose to do next. It is likely that France will pursue its own next-gen aircraft that meets its own requirements, as happened with Rafale, while the Financial Times reports that Airbus is keen to lead a consortium to develop a new pan-European fighter jet to replace FCAS. We asked both Dassault and Airbus to comment for this article. There is another next-gen combat aircraft project already underway: the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP), which is a tri-partite effort between the UK, Italy and Japan. This aims to replace the Eurofighter Typhoon in service with the British and Italian air forces, and the Mitsubishi F-2 operated by Japan. The British version of the jet is currently known as Tempest. GCAP was proceeding well, but the current UK prevarication over defense spending is proving to be a roadblock to ongoing development, as a long-term multinational contract for the project cannot be signed until the Starmer government pulls its finger out and publishes its delayed defense investment plan. If all goes well, GCAP/Tempest is expected to enter service by 2035, but the planned 2027 date for a demonstrator aircraft to fly is already looking unlikely. Elsewhere, the US is developing its own sixth-generation fighter under the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, to be built by Boeing as the F-47 and expected to enter service possibly as soon as the early 2030s. Questions have been raised over whether this will be chosen by European air forces, however, President Trump previously warned that the capabilities of any exported aircraft would be deliberately downgraded. This follows issues with the in-service F-35, which has seen long delays in key software upgrades, preventing the RAF and Royal Navy from using European-made weapons with their aircraft. ®
Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat het aantal asielzoekers in Ter Apel (vol) al tijden ruim boven de 2000 zit. Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat andere gemeenten dan maar asielzoekers opvangen. Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat het Drentse Roden vannacht aan de beurt was. Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat er een bus was geregeld om asielzoekers van Ter Apel naar Roden te vervoeren. Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat 12 asielzoekers te laat aankwamen en DIE BUS MISTEN. Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat de asielzoekers die de bus misten een nacht buiten moesten slapen. Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat mevrouw de IND-baas maar weinig verwacht van het EU-migratiepact. Allemaal de schuld van Geert Wilders dat dit de situatie in Nederland is. Maar gelukkig worden we wereldkampioen. Schuld van Geert Wilders.