Good morning, Whitewater.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise is 5:17 and sunset 8:28, for 15h 10m 35s of daytime. It’s a full moon today.
Whitewater’s Common Council and Community Development Authority will hold a joint meeting tonight at 6 PM.
Edward White during EVA. During the Gemini 4 mission, White became the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk. Via Wikipedia.
Cape Kennedy, Friday, June 4–For 20 minutes yesterday afternoon Maj. Edward H. White 2d of the Air Force was a human satellite of the earth as he floated across North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Tethered to the Gemini 4 spacecraft, he chatted good-humoredly and snapped pictures as he darted about in raw space with a the aid of a gas-firing jet gun. Asked how he was doing by Maj. James A. McDivitt of the Air Force, the spaceship commander, Major White replied to his partner in the capsule:
“I’m doing great. This is fun.”
When he was told to re-enter the capsule, Major White laughed and said: “I’m not coming in.” But later, after more banter, he followed through on orders to return.
Here’s the midweek puzzle from Puzzability:
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This Week’s Game — June 1-5
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Six-Packs
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We’ve got a splinter group of trivia every day this week. For each day, we’ll give you a category and a list of all the members of that category with six letters in their names—except one.
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Example:
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Current Supreme Court justices: Breyer, Thomas
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Scalia
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What to Submit:
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Submit the missing category member (as “Scalia” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, June 3
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