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10A Friday, October 26, 2018
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
WORLD
Associated Press
A Russian Soyuz-2 booster rocket takes off from the
Plesetsk launch facility Oct. 25 in northwestern Russia.
Russian rocket puts
satellite into orbit,
first since failure
BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW — A Russian Soyuz rocket put a military satel
lite in orbit on Thursday, its first successful launch since a
similar rocket failed earlier this month to deliver a crew to
the International Space Station.
The Russian military said a Soyuz-2 booster rocket
lifted off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern
Russia.
A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague
and Roscosmos’ Alexei Ovchinin failed two minutes into
the flight on Oct. 11, sending their emergency capsule into
a sharp fall back to Earth. The crew landed safely, but the
Russian space agency Roscosmos had suspended all Soyuz
launches until Thursday, pending a probe.
The official panel is yet to produce its formal verdict, but
investigators have reportedly linked the failure to an ele
ment jettisoning one of the rocket’s four side boosters from
the main stage that apparently had been damaged during
final assembly at the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan.
Russian space officials plan to conduct two other
unmanned Soyuz launches before launching a crew to the
space station. No date for the crew launch has been set yet,
but it’s expected in early December.
The current space station crew — NASA’s Serena
Aunon-Chancellor, Russian Sergei Prokopyev and Ger
man Alexander Gerst — was scheduled to return to Earth
in December after a six-month mission. A Soyuz capsule
attached to the station that they use to ride back to Earth is
designed for 200 days in space, meaning that their stay in
orbit could only be extended briefly.
Flight controllers could operate the station without
anyone on board in case the Russian investigation drags
into next year, but NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
has said earlier this month that he expects Roscosmos to
launch the next crew in December.
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft is currently the only vehi
cle for ferrying crews to the space station following the
retirement of the U.S. space shuttle fleet. Russia stands to
lose that monopoly with the arrival of SpaceX’s Dragon and
Boeing’s Starliner crew capsules.
The crew launch failure dealt another blow to the Rus
sian space program, which has been dogged by a string of
failed satellite launches in recent years.
Ethiopia unanimously elects first
female president; ‘sets the standard’
SIMON MAINA I Associated Press
Pope Francis walks next to then Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi
(UNON) Sahle-Work Zewde, right, upon his arrival there in 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya.
BY ELIAS MESERET
Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA, Ethio
pia — Ethiopian lawmak
ers unanimously elected
the country’s first female
president on Thursday,
days after approving one
of the world’s few “gen
der-balanced” Cabinets
as the country’s dramatic
reforms continue.
As seasoned diplo
mat Sahle-Work Zewde
assumed the largely
ceremonial post, many
celebrated Africa’s only
current female head of
state. The continent’s first
female president, Liberia’s
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left
office this year.
“Congratulations,
Madam President! Women
do make a difference. We
are proud of you!” the
female president of the
United Nations General
Assembly, Maria Fer
nanda Espinosa Garces,
said in a Twitter post.
“In a patriarchal society
such as ours, the appoint
ment of a female head of
state not only sets the stan
dard for the future but also
normalizes women as deci
sion-makers in public life,”
the chief of staff for Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed said
on Twitter.
The East African coun
try long has shown some
of the lowest indicators
of gender equality in
sub-Saharan Africa, UN
Women has said. “Women
and girls in Ethiopia are
strongly disadvantaged
compared to boys and men
in several areas, including
literacy, health, livelihoods
and basic human rights.”
Female genital mutilation
continues in some areas
despite the government
declaring it illegal.
But the new prime min
ister has clearly decided
to include women’s leader
ship in the sweeping politi
cal and economic reforms
he has announced in Afri
ca’s second most populous
country since taking office
in April.
Ethiopian lawmakers last
week approved a Cabinet
with women making up a
record 50 percent of minis
ters, including the country’s
first female defense min
ister. A woman also leads
the new Ministry of Peace,
will oversees the powerful
National Intelligence and
Security Service and the
Federal Police Commission.
The Horn of Africa power
joined a handful of coun
tries, mostly European,
where women make up 50
percent or more of minis
terial positions, according
to the Inter-Parliamentary
Union and UN Women.
Likely inspired, Rwanda
two days later announced
its own Cabinet with 50 per
cent women. The country
has received international
recognition for female rep
resentation in government.
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