6-year-old girl dies after being shot at toddler’s birthday party
MIAMI, Fla. – A 6-year-old girl is dead after she was one of three people hit by bullets Saturday night, Local 10 News has learned. Local 10 learned that the shooting happened during a birthday party for a toddler. A man in his 20s arrived at the hospital on his own — he had been shot in the leg. Those who knew Chassidy told Local 10 News reporter Terrell Forney that she was bubbly and always the life of the party. “They make no sense for our children to be getting killed and shot by people who come in the community and just want to shoot.
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.