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An Extended Stay in Space; The Shocking Science Behind Staticky Hair; Cat Survives Three Weeks Trapped in Sofa During Cross-Country Move.

COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: What`s up, sunshine? I`m Coy. Welcome to CNN 10, your 10 minutes of news where we simply tell you the what, letting you

decide what to think.

And it`s #YourWordWednesday. That means one of you helped us write today`s show. So listen up for your submission.

Today, we start in Earth`s lower orbit, where two astronauts have been stuck in space since last June. But now NASA`s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

have a better idea of when they`ll be coming home. They were supposed to be up there for just eight to 10 days aboard the International

Space Station after launching on Boeing Starliner`s first crewed test flight.

Now, that test flight was part of NASA`s commercial crew program, partnering with private space companies Boeing and SpaceX. After Williams

and Wilmore arrived at the orbiting outpost about nine months ago, staff found a helium leak and thruster problems on the Starliner vehicle. NASA
 

thruster [ˋθrʌstɚ] n. 火箭推进器

and Boeing spent weeks attempting to pinpoint the cause of the propulsion issues and gas leaks without success.
 

pinpoint [ˋpɪn͵pɔɪnt] n. 准确地确定（位置，范围，性质，程度等）

Officials deemed the Starliner too risky for the astronauts` return flight. So they sent the vehicle back to Earth without the astronauts. The pair

then joined the official space station crew and became part of its staff rotation.

Williams and Wilmore are now expected to return home in about a month. NASA`s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is scheduled to launch from Earth on March

12th. Then, after a planned week-long handover period, the craft will travel back to Earth with the two astronauts on board.
 

handover [ˈhændovɚ] n. 交接；转移

Our Anderson Cooper got to speak with the two astronauts about their time in space and what gravity might feel like when they`re back home.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Commander Williams, Captain Wilmore, thanks so much for joining us. You`ve been up there since last June. How are you

doing?

CMDR. SUNITA "SUNI" WILLIAMS, NASA ASTRONAUT: We`re doing pretty darn good, actually. You know, we`ve got food, we`ve got clothes. We have great crew

members up here. You know, of course, it was a little bit longer stay than we had expected. But, you know, both of us have trained to live and work on

the International Space Station, and we`ve -- I think we`ve made the most of it.

COOPER: Commander Williams, what does it feel like to be floating around all that time? I mean, I was going to ask the captain, but his hair is

pretty short. What -- I mean, your hair is up all the time. Is that -- does it feel weird?

WILLIAMS: You know, it`s a lot of fun. I like my crazy hair up here. It sort of -- it gets a little Einstein look, so it`s pretty cool. Both of us

have lived here before, and it is just amazing how when you come across the hatch after you`ve been here, it`s like, oh my gosh, I remember what this
 

hatch [hætʃ] n.（船的）舱口

is all like. I remember feeling what it`s like floating, and I think both of us adapted really quickly. And I think, I`m hoping the same will be true

when we come back home.

COOPER: Yes. How much time does it take to adapt when you land again?

WILLIAMS: Yes, that`s going to be a little bit hard, as usual. I`ve been up twice before for long-duration missions, and it`s almost a day for a day

that you get that like fast twitch muscle action back again. But I think both of us will be a little bit sad when that feeling of space sort of
 

twitch [twɪtʃ] v. 抽动，抽搐，痉挛

leaves us after about 24 hours and we`re not a little bit like motion sickness from coming back home.

That`ll actually be a little bit sad when that goes away, just because that means that really physically the spaceflight came to an end.

CAPT. BARRY "BUTCH" WILMORE, NASA ASTRONAUT: And yes, you don`t know it right now, Anderson, but gravity is really, really tough. That`s what we`ll

feel when we first get back. Gravity`s tough.

COOPER: Tough in what sense? Just on your body?

WILMORE: Yes, everything. I mean, we have no gravity. We don`t feel the effects of gravity here. We`re floating, as Suni has been saying. But when

you get back, gravity starts pulling everything to your lower extremities. The fluid that is shifting, I got a little puffy face. It`s always that way
 

extremity [ɪkˋstrɛmətɪ] n. 手足，四肢

when you`re in -- when I`m in space. All that fluid is going to be pulled to my lower extremities. And it`s really going to be different.

Even to lift a pencil, you don`t even feel a pencil when you lift it. When we get back, even to lift a pencil, we will feel the weight.

COOPER: Wow.

WILMORE: That`s -- that`s the transition back. We all experience it when we come back to Earth.

COOPER: And what`s the latest information you have from NASA about your return? Is it still your understanding you`ll be brought home on a SpaceX

spacecraft?

WILMORE: That`s affirmative, yes. Right now, the plan is that Crew-10 will launch on the 12th of March. They`ll come here, rendezvous and dock. We`ll
 

affirmative [əˋfɝmətɪv] adj. 肯定的；表示赞成的

rendezvous [ˋrɑndə͵vu] v. 会面；会合

do a turnover for about a week and we will return on or about the 19th of March.
 

turnover [ˋtɝn͵ovɚ] n. 人員更替數；人員更換率; 易手

COOPER: And why can`t you leave sooner? I mean, what will happen between now and March 12th when you`re expected to depart?

WILMORE: We bring crews to and from Space Station. We have a cycle of period of time where those things take place. And to alter that cycle sends

ripple effects all the way down the chain. We would never expect to come back just special for us or anyone unless it was a medical issue or

something really, really out of the circumstances along those lines. So we need to come back and keep the normal cycle going.

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WIRE: Pop quiz, hot shot.

What unit of measurement for electrical power measures the rate of energy usage?

Amps, volts, watts, or joule?
 

joule [dʒaʊl] n.【物】焦耳（功或能的单位）

Watts that you say. Way to go if you said watts, the rate at which energy is used or transferred. Watts are calculated by multiplying volts and amps,

and one watt is the amount of power that produces one joule of energy per second.

Do you have static electricity problems? Clingy clothes, you go to touch something while contemporaneously knowing you`re going to get zapped, you
 

static electricity【物】静电

clingy [ˋklɪŋɪ] adj. 黏着的；紧贴的

contemporaneously [kən͵tɛmpəˋrenɪəslɪ] adv. 同时地

zap [zæp] v.（用炮火，电流等）摧毁；扫射；轰炸;电击

pet your cat or your dog, you zap them, you feel bad, or your hair keeps standing up. Well, now we might have a way to keep all of our static

electricity problems at bay.
 

keep… at bay 不使...迫近

Our Meg Tirrell took a deep dive to find out exactly what static electricity is, and something like tinfoil might be our secret weapon against it.
 

tinfoil [ˋtɪn͵fɔɪl] n. 锡箔；锡纸

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MEG TIRRELL, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Does your hair ever get super staticky? Did you know that it`s actually your hairs trying to
 

staticky [ˋstætəkɪ] adj. 受静电干扰的

get away from each other?

LAURENCE MARKS, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SCIENCE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: The two pieces of hair, if they`re both negatively charged, they repel each
 

repel [rɪˋpɛl] v. (相互)排斥

other, so it pushes them apart. So if you have a lot of static electricity, your hair will literally stand on end.
 

stand on end 站起來; to stand erect, bristle, especially from fear.

TIRRELL: Dr. Laurence Marks who studies static electricity, tells us that when something`s negatively charged, that means it has more electrons,
 

electron [ɪˋlɛktrɑn] n.【物】电子

which are subatomic particles found in atoms, which make up everything.
 

subatomic [͵sʌbəˋtɑmɪk] adj. 比原子小的；在原子内的

MARKS: Sometimes those electrons can get transferred from one material to another material when you rub, or it may be that an atom loses an electron

and that atom gets transferred to the other material.

TIRRELL: And that`s what causes us to feel shocks after doing things like petting a cat. And it gets worse in the winter, Marks says, because the air

is so dry.

MARKS: There`s a lot of data which says that if you have water, it short-circuits the static electricity.
 

short-circuit [͵ʃɔrtˋsɝkɪt] v.【電】使..發生短路

TIRRELL: There are other things that can do that, too. Maybe you`ve seen videos like this one on TikTok, where people use tinfoil to get rid of

staticky hair.

MARKS: That is because the aluminum foil will conduct away the electricity. Water can also conduct away the electricity.

TIRRELL: And, Marks says, on a much larger scale, static electricity is what causes lightning. So just remember, the next time you pet fluffy and

feel that spark --

MARKS: -- you`ve actually had a little lightning shock between your hand and the cat.

TIRRELL: And that`s everyday science.

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WIRE: Today`s story getting a 10 out of 10, is a meowing miracle cat. Just before a family`s cross-country move from Washington state all the way to
 

cross-country [ˋkrɔsˋkʌntrɪ] adj. 横越全国的

Colorado, their beloved cat, Sunny-Loo, went missing. Family and friends kept searching for Sunny-Loo after they left, but when the family`s packed

up furniture and belongings reached its destination three weeks later, they heard a faint meow.

They were shocked it was coming from their pullout sofa. There she was, Sunny-Loo, weak, emaciated, but surviving in a small hole in the sofa`s armrest.
 

pullout sofa 沙發床

emaciated [ɪˋmeʃɪ͵etɪd] adj. 消瘦的；憔悴的；衰弱的

armrest [ˋɑrm͵rɛst] n.（椅子两侧或汽车门内的）扶手

No food, no water. Vets jumped to the rescue and brought her back to full health. And now she`s feline fine, living her best nine lives.

We had a panoply of delightful words for Your Word Wednesday, so tough to choose just one. Congrats today to Ms. Teresa and all our lovely people at
 

panoply [ˋpænəplɪ] n. 壮丽的陈列（或装饰）[（+of）]

La Amistad Learning Center for submitting contemporaneously, an adverb meaning existing, occurring, or originating during the same time.

Thank you for leveling up our vocab today.

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