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ABC’s David Muir takes on ‘terrifying’ feat for World News Tonight for emotional reason

ABC’s David Muir takes on ‘terrifying’ feat for World News Tonight for emotional reason

Published by Daniella Wilson

David Muir is scaling new heights – quite literally! The ABC News, 52, anchor who hosts the primetime news show World News Tonight as well as ABC’s 20/20 with Deborah Roberts, is taking on a slew of tasks around the country with his colleagues to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. © Getty ImagesDavid Muir took on one of the more daunting feats for the “Disney Celebrates America” special As part of ABC’s coverage for the same, David, Deborah and Diane Sawyer are each exploring different regions across the country to celebrate what the United States has to offer, with a challenge to boot. And David’s might just be the most physical. In a preview of the special, the World News Tonight anchor revealed that he climbed to the very top of the Statue of Liberty’s torch in New York City, a whopping 300 feet in the air, overlooking the water below and the city spreading out before him. Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: David Muir looks and sounds so different in footage from college years …

Star Wars spin-off Mandalorian and Grogu tops box office as horror Obsession achieves incredibly rare feat

Star Wars spin-off Mandalorian and Grogu tops box office as horror Obsession achieves incredibly rare feat

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The new Star Wars film The Mandalorian and Grogu has topped the box office at the start of Memorial Day weekend, but remains on course for an opening weekend on par with the lowest opening in the sci-fi franchise’s history. The film, from Iron Man director Jon Favreau, opened with takings of $33 million in the U.S. on Friday. It is expected to make somewhere between $80 million and $100 million across its opening weekend. The lowest opening in Star Wars history was Solo: A Star Wars Story, which grossed $84.4 million over a three-day weekend and $103 million over the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend in 2018. Meanwhile, horror movie Obsession is celebrating an incredibly rare feat after posting better box office results for its second weekend than it did for its opening weekend. As Variety reports, YouTuber Curry Barker’s …

The Trajectory of the Artemis II Moon Mission Is a Feat of Engineering

The Trajectory of the Artemis II Moon Mission Is a Feat of Engineering

Published by skeptic

Liftoff. At 6:35 pm ET on April 2, a Space Launch System rocket lifted an Orion capsule from Earth. On board were Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. As of Thursday, they became the first humans to go beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The crew will test technological systems that will be useful on subsequent missions, such as those involving radiation shielding or communication between the capsule and Earth at lunar distances. One of the most fascinating aspects is also the trajectory that Artemis II will follow during its mission. Space Is the Place Contrary to what intuition may suggest, the journey to the moon is not a direct, linear path connecting the Earth’s surface with the lunar surface. After launch, the first stage of the SLS separated from the rest of the spacecraft—the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) upper stage and the Orion capsule. The ICPS carried the capsule into high Earth orbit, but the crew remained orbiting Earth for approximately 23 …