Voyager 2's journey into space began 49 years ago today with its launch from @NASAKennedy on a Titan/Centaur vehicle.
Taking advantage of a rare planetary alignment, this long-lasting planetary explorer and its twin, Voyager 1, have each made a "Grand Tour" of the outer solar system and today continue their missions of discovery in interstellar space!
Voyager 2 is still our only spacecraft to have visited Neptune and Uranus.
When astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad launched into space OTD in 1965 for their unprecedented 8-day Gemini V mission, NASA was eager to see how the spacecraft and crew would hold up to long-duration spaceflight.
As they made 120 revolutions around the planet in the close confines of the Gemini spacecraft, the astronauts made precision spacecraft maneuvers to simulate a rendezvous in space, undertook medical experiments, and took high-resolution photographs of Earth.
"Those men are thieves, but their victims see them as investors"
In five minutes, Sheikh Nkata brokedown colonialism, decolonising the mind, neocolonialism, white supremacy, the agrarian question – in the context of the Isamic tradition.
No wonder capitalism rides on a huge doze of Islamaphobia.
Just a normal day inside a mosque in the countryside.
Sheikh Nkata passed in 2024. May Allah be pleased him.
The Theatre Icon used theatre as a mirror to Uganda’s politics, history, identity, poverty, and cultural contradictions—sharp, humorous, symbolic, and unapologetic.
#RIPAlexMukulu
🚀 A remarkable discovery at the edge of our Solar System:
NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 traveled along very different paths, yet both crossed the heliopause—the boundary where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space—at surprisingly similar distances from the Sun.
Is Uganda ready for a new capital city?
A proposal by Minister Margaret Muhanga suggests relocating Uganda’s capital to Nakasongola, a transition that could take up to 15 years.
But how have other African countries handled capital city relocations?
.@MuwemaBeata goes inside the story to explore the reasons and lessons from these major transitions.
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