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Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 43 - October 28, 2021
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Professionals.......................7
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Entertainment......................2
Hawthorne............................3
Lawndale..............................4
Inglewood.............................5
Legals............................. 3,6,7
Neighborhood Therapist.....3
Pets........................................7 Moon Zoom and Beyond:
Weekend
Forecast
The NASA Artemis I Mission
By Tommy Vinh Bui, MLIS Associate
Librarian, Inglewood Public Library
As we traipse into November, we find
the days insufferably shortened and we’re
buffeted by complete darkness at earlier
and earlier hours. Which provides ample
opportunity to steer that unsinkable curiosity
upwards and ponder the constellations and
what heretofore discoveries lay await. And
NASA’s Artemis I mission should sate that
incisive inquisitiveness most handily.
This particular mission is slated to launch
in a few months and will ring a hat-trick
of scientific firsts. Artemis I will have the
distinction of being the first integrated test
flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space
Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the ground
systems at Kennedy Space Center. This mission
hefts a prodigious amount of ambition
with its lunar orbital trajectory. Artemis I will
be an uncrewed test flight that will provide
a critical foundation for deep space exploration
and propel NASA’s capability to return
to the moon and beyond. In addition, Orion
has been devised to remain in space longer
than any spacecraft designed for astronauts
without having to dock at an interim space
station thus prolonging the potential duration
of future lunar missions.
Stuff in those noise-dampening earplugs
if you got ‘em. For Orion will launch from
Cape Canaveral on the most powerful super
heavy-lift rocket ever constructed and speed
farther and faster than any spacecraft designed
for humans has ever ventured tallying a distance
of 280,000 miles from Florida. This
mission will slingshot Orion thousands of
miles beyond the moon over the course of
a three-week mission. And hopefully there’s
enough Tang to last throughout the orbit.
The initial launch breaking the surly bonds
of earth will be a sonic boom of a spectacle.
Propelled by a pair of five segment boosters
and a gaggle of brawny RS-25 rockets,
the blast off will punch the atmosphere and
produce approximately 8.8 million pounds of
thrust and haul a behemoth vehicle weighing
nearly six million pounds into the inky
blue-black obsidian of space.
Orion is then scheduled to slalom around
a veritable gauntlet of orbital objects. The
spacecraft will pass through the Van Allen
radiation belts, whizz past the Global Positioning
System (GPS) satellite constellation, and
above and beyond miscellaneous communication
satellites embedded in Earth’s orbit.
Throughout this perilous journey, Orion will
be flexing its unique communication systems
design and ability to navigate and operate in
See Moon Zoom, page 4
Thus, Travel Is a Risky
Business. Or Is It?
Article and photos
by Ben & Glinda Shipley
All travel involves an element of risk. No,
we’re not talking about nude sunbathing on
an ice shelf in Antarctica or floating down
the rain-drenched Congo River in a leaky
canoe. But when you leave the comfort of
your home, stuff happens. Sometimes, the
unexpected can intimidate. Often, it turns
out that the question marks lie entirely in
your own head. We’ve experienced both
and, in the process, have come away with
some fond, if curiously shaped, memories.
Five of the more eccentric:
Stromboli:
The evening ferry from Sicily was nearempty.
The island was no more than a
smoldering volcano with a minor village
attached. We disembarked in the January
off-season to find a single municipal light,
no street signs of any kind, and no one
from the rental property to greet us. Within
minutes, there was no one about at all.
Eventually, we found longitude and
latitude marks for our destination on a
smartphone. With a compass app, we trudged
blindly for an hour before we came to a
sign on the wall of a dark and shuttered
resort. When we called the phone number,
a voice protested that they’d been looking
for us all over the island. We ended up with
the mini-palace to ourselves for two gorgeous
days, before a winter storm flew up
See Travel, page 8
Friday
Sunny
77˚/59˚
Saturday
Partly
Cloudy
67˚/58˚
Sunday
AM Clouds/
PM Sun
65˚/56˚
Literacy O’ Lantern Competition
Brings Festive Fun to the South Bay
There were over 100 entries in the Literacy O’Lantern competition at Juan Cabrillo Elementary. Thank you to all the participants for their creativity and their artistry. It truly created the Spirit of Halloween.
Photo courtesy Juan Cabrillo Elementary PTA.