Ngohambo oluya eNyangeni olubuyela kumephu yomgwaqo we-NASA, kubonakala kufaneleka ukuthi ucezu lomlando wenyanga luyabuya njengoba izazi zezinkanyezi zithole imojuli "Snoopy" eyalahleka kudala evela kumishini ye-Apollo 10.
Imojula, eqanjwe ngenja yopopayi i-Snoopy, yasetshenziswa yi-ejensi ngesikhathi somkhankaso we-Apollo 10, obekuhloswe ngawo ukwenza konke ngaphandle kwezigaba zokugcina zokuhlalisa indoda eNyangeni. Ngaphandle kwemishini ye-Apollo 10, umsebenzi wenyanga we-Apollo 11 ubungeke uphumelele.
Osomkhathi uThomas Stafford kanye no-Eugene Cernan basondele kwisathelayithi Yomhlaba ebangeni elingamafidi ayizinkulungwane ezingama-50 (15,2 km) kule mojula enomuntu. Lokhu kwakuzoba uvivinyo lokugcina lwehadiwe yemojuli, egcina lapho ukwehla okunamandla okuya eNyangeni kwakuzoqala khona. U-Stafford noCernan babe sebebuyela kumojula yomyalo uCharlie Brown, lapho umkhathi wesithathu uJohn Young wayebalindile, okwathi ngemva kwalokho umkhumbi-mkhathi wasuka waya eMhlabeni, washiya uSnoopy emzileni.
I-NASA yayingenazo izinhlelo zokuqhubeka nokusebenzisa i-Snoopy futhi yasheshe yayeka ukulandelela ukunyakaza kwayo. Nokho, ngo-2011, ithimba lezazi zezinkanyezi elaliholwa uNick Howes, ilungu leRoyal Astronomical Society of Great Britain, lanquma ukuthola ukuthi wayekuphi manje uSnoopy. Ngaleso sikhathi, iqembu lalinganisela ukuthi amathuba okuphumelela ayengu-1 kwabayizigidi ezingu-235.
Okuhlaba umxhwele nakakhulu isitatimende sezazi zezinkanyezi sokuthi bathole imojula yenyanga elahlekile. U-Howes kanye nethimba bathi "bayazethemba ngo-98%" ukuthi imojuli itholakele, kubika i-Sky News.
"Kuze kube yilapho siqoqa idatha ye-radar," kusho u-Howes ku-Twitter, "akekho ozokwazi ngokuqinisekile... nakuba kubukeka kuthembisa."
Source: 3dnews.ru
