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Date: 15 May 2018
Russia again threatens the USA with atomic bombers
After a long break Russian strategic bombers again appeared in the coastal zone of North America. Two Tu-95 were intercepted by American fighters on May 11 near Alaska – informed Northern Command. This is not the first such a move of the Russian army – it has more political, than military meaning.
Two bombers Tu-95 appeared in the American-Canadian Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the Bering Sea in the morning of May 11. They were intercepted by two fighters F-22 Raptor. Russians were flying to the west of the seacoast of Alaska, to the north of the Aleutian Islands. They did not trespass the airspace of the USA or Canada. The flight was later confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defence. In the flight participated not only Tu-95 bombers, but also Tu-142, which are maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine aircrafts. Previous such a provocation took place almost exactly a year ago, also in the vicinity of Alaska. On May 2, 2017, two American F-22 Raptor intercepted two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers and two Su-35 fighters. A couple of days earlier, a Russian Su-27 fighter dangerously intercepted an American P-8 maritime patrol aircraft over the Baltic Sea. A Russian flied almost 6 metres from the US Navy’s machine.
All those flights have only propagandist and political meaning. From the military point of view, there is no sense in sending an aircraft armed in missiles reaching thousands of kilometres so close to a territory of a foreign country and venture its interception. In Alaska, there is a United States Army launch site for anti-ballistic missiles in Fort Greely (about 130 kilometres southeast of Fairbanks). Appearance of Russian aircrafts, which can carry atomic weapons, in that place is not a coincidence, taking into consideration Putin’s rhetoric whose one of main objects of attack are American capabilities of defence against Russian missiles. In Fort Greely there is a majority of 44 Ground Based Interceptors missiles capable of destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). Others are stationed in California, in Vandenberg Air Force Base. One should remember that in June 2012 Russian bombers simulated a missile attack on American objects of anti-missile shield in Alaska, within the great strategic manoeuvres of nuclear powers. Russian bombers Tu-95 are armed with cruise missiles KH-55 and in newer and more dangerous KH-101 (conventional warhead) and KH-102 (nuclear warhead).
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In 2019, NASA announced the Artemis Program with a goal of putting human beings on the moon for the first time in almost 50 years. So, what better time than now to start daydreaming about a lunar adventure motorcycle?
Andrew Fabishevskiy, a Moscow-based designer, recently created a concept NASA motorcycle, but the history of putting a motorcycle on the moon dates back to the 1960s and the early Apollo missions.
“The main design theme of this motorcycle is to make an object that looks like clear engineering, with minimum styling elements,” Fabishevskiy told me via email. Like all things outer space, his project piqued my imagination and I began to wonder if riding a motorbike on the moon would be the most awesome adventure ever or if it was destined to be a disaster.
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Back in 1969, NASA first began testing Honda Monkeys as a feasible mode of transportation on the moon’s surface. But, since the engineers managed to fit a four-wheeled Lunar Rover Vehicle aboard Apollo 15, the project was largely abandoned, leaving us with little more than this amazing picture of an astronaut on a CT90.
Fast forward to the future, Fabishevskiy’s moon-worth electric motorcycle has a frame made of tubular steel. “Electric suspension, electric in-wheels motors. I wanted to make a visually light object,” Fabishevskiy told me, “such lightness is characteristic of machines designed for space, as well as the combination of materials that I used – lots of white and reflective materials.”
It sure seemed like a good idea to me, but I needed some first-hand science to back up my investigation into space motorcycles, so I called my dad, Dale Rupert, a high school and college physics professor. “Well, of course it has to be electric,” Dale told me, “you wouldn’t want to deal with the oxygen and fuel systems of an internal combustion engine. Nuclear could be another good option.”
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It might sound ridiculous, but considering that there would be zero aerodynamic drag and ⅙ the gravity of earth, riding a motorcycle on the moon could be incredibly fun. Of course, traction in the lunar dust would be a challenge and the 500 degree temperature swings on the moon would be a disaster for pneumatic tires.
My dad assured me that you’d catch big air at the lip of every crater and that you’d be able to shoot rooster tails of moon dust 50 feet into the air— though he did ask me to not quote him on any specific numbers for roosting your astronaut buddies stalled out in lunar silt, as there’s still a lot of unknowns about how that particular substrate would react when blasted into a low-atmosphere environment.
After the publication of his design, Fabishevskiy was contacted by the guys at Hookie Co, a motorcycle design company based in Dresden, Germany. “We are making a fully functional prototype in collaboration. We plan to show in the middle of 21,” he said.
Who knows if the NASA concept motorbike will ever actually make it to the moon, but for now I’m happy to keep on daydreaming about riding my Trail 90 on Earth’s awesomest satellite.
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Earhart's final flight
On June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart embarked on a mission to fly for the first time around the globe along the equator with her fellow navigator, Fred Noonan. The specially equipped plane, the Lockheed Electra L-10E was chosen for that dangerous, one of a kind flight. They took off from Miami with much fanfare and publicity. The plane flew forwards Central and South America, and then turned east to Africa. From there, they flew across the Indian Ocean and finally made a stop in Lae, New Guinea on June 29, 1937. About 22,000 miles of the entire journey had been covered. The remaining 7,000 miles were to be flown over the Pacific Ocean. Amelia's plan was to head to Howland Island, which was 2,556 miles away and situated between Hawaii and Australia. Earhart and Noonan set out from Lae on July 2, 1937 heading east towards Howland Island. From what is believed, a series of navigation mistakes and mechanical problems led to the disappearance of Earhart's plane the next day, July 3, 1937. People have proposed many theories, however, no one knows what exactly happened and what went wrong, and it remains an unsolved mystery to this day.


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Abstract: The connection between the Sun and the Earth is a complex one, involving interactions and variabilities across a dizzying spectrum of scales and systems. The result is a relationship between us and our star that is observable only through a fleet of instruments, methods, and technologies yet creates weather in the near-Earth space environment that is both life-sustaining as well as life-threatening. This relationship is colloquially known as space weather.To unravel the critical complexities and variabilities and to evolve beyond current approaches to understand space weather, new data-driven approaches and data analysis technologies are required. These data-driven methods are taking on new importance in light of the continuously changing data landscape of the space weather system, a challenge (and opportunity) shared by all scientific disciplines. Therefore, the scientific community faces both an exciting opportunity and an important imperative to create a new frontier built at the intersection of traditional approaches and state-of-the-art data-driven sciences and technologies.
In this talk we will first introduce the beauty and power of space weather and then discuss the meaning of data science in the context of space weather, highlighting data science as the actionable exploration of the full data lifecycle, covering collection, through storage, to analysis and decision-based communication of the analysis. We will present the latest efforts to leverage data science innovation to further space weather science, revealing lessons that reverberate across all scientific disciplines and that tie science to engineering, art, and design.
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Ryan takes a multi-disciplinary (what he terms ‘antidisciplinary’) approach to the study of space, bringing together traditional space physics with innovation from the field of data science. His passion for data-driven discovery has led to involvement in the JPL Data Science Working Group, the NASA Frontier Development Lab artificial intelligence R&D incubator, and complex systems institutes throughout the United States. Prior to joining JPL, Ryan received the Visiting Young Scientist Fellowship to join the Dartmouth College School of Engineering faculty. During his six-month visiting tenure he created and taught a graduate-level course on statistical inference and data assimilation and conducted research across the engineering, applied math, and physics departments. Ryan was selected as a National Science Foundation Fellow to complete his Ph.D. research at the University of Colorado Boulder, and completed his degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences in the Fall of 2016. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from CU Boulder and a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tennessee.
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If all goes as planned, a group of U.S. university students will have placed a satellite powered exclusively by water, into orbit around the moon in just over a year. The Cornell University team CisLunar Explorers (cislunar means "between Earth and the moon") and their eponymously named satellite – actually two adjoining satellites – are taking part in a NASA program called the Cube Quest Challenge. Cube Quest The challenge is simple: design, build and deliver "flight-qualified, small satellites capable of advanced operations near and beyond the moon." Nothing to it, right? Evidently not, because there are 10 teams that are competing in the challenge with names like "Cubequestador" and "Eagles Quest." But the CisLunar Explorer satellites are unique because the only form of propulsion on board these these two small (30 centimeters or so) L-shaped craft is water. The idea is the brainchild of Mason Peck who works at Cornell University but used to be NASA's chief technologist. He has always wanted to figure out a way to get beyond rockets as a way to push our spacecraft beyond earth. “A lot of the mass we send into orbit these days is in the form of rockets – the only way we get anything into space,” he said in a Cornell press release. “But what if we could use what’s already there? If we could do that, if we could refuel spacecraft while they’re already in space…" Here's how it works: The craft is two connected satellites that will gradually separate from each other, both shaped like the English letter "L." Water is stored in the lower part of the L . Energy from the sun will electrolyze the water into its two parts, hydrogen and oxygen. Put the hydrogen, oxygen and a spark together and you get a bang that provides thrust, with water as the only by-product. And it turns out water is pretty plentiful out in space. Icy comets are full of it, and NASA is currently in the process of looking for it on a number of rocky near-earth asteroids. The newest theories suggest that most of the water on our planet may have come from asteroids or comets when the ancient Earth was being bombarded with space junk in its formative years. CisLunar Navigation Another cool thing about the CisLunar Explorer is how the team is teaching it to navigate its way through space. The idea is to copy how ancient mariners used the moon, sun and stars to fix their position on the oceans. Once the twin satellite halves separate after launch they will spin around each other on their way to the moon to keep them from going off course. They will be equipped with cameras and be constantly taking pictures of the sun, Earth and the moon, and comparing their positions and their size. Based on where the sun, moon and Earth are at any given moment, the CisLunar Explorers will do the math to figure out their position. "‘Okay, I must be here, because these bodies look like this,’” is how Cornell engineer Kyle Doyle explains it. “It’s very much like ancient explorers using the sun and moon to navigate." And the Winner is? Of the 10 teams competing, the top three winners will hitch a ride on board NASA's space launch system in early 2018. The competition is in four stages and the Cornell team has been in the top three in stages one and two. The winners of this third stage will be announced in about a month, and the final three winners will be announced in early 2017.
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I’m probably dating myself by telling you that I remember the summer of 1971.
Triumph had just released the T120R — probably the best of the Bonnevilles, thanks to a Rob North-designed frame that carried the oil in the backbone — but it was too little, too late to save the British bike industry from Honda’s 750-Four. Giacomo Agostini was in the process of winning another 500 grand prix title on his MV Agusta triple. Meanwhile, I was riding a 49 cc Puch "Condor" moped.
I suppose one of the few bikes I didn’t covet — that was even more mundane than my moped — was the Honda Z50 "monkey bike." (Note to the small-but-avid community of Z50 collectors: No offense intended!)
The thing is, something very like a Z50 easily could have become the world’s most famous motorcycle that July. That’s because NASA considered equipping Apollo 15 astronauts with electric minibikes to explore the surface of the moon.
Long before the Apollo program, NASA had envisioned equipping astronauts with some kind of vehicle that would allow them to explore the moon’s surface. After the Soviet Union put the first man in orbit, John F. Kennedy brashly declared that the United States would send men to the moon and return them safely before the 1960s were out. NASA and the Apollo program became national priorities.
The first astronauts walked on the moon in 1969, but some kind of vehicle that allowed them to explore further afield from the Lunar Module (LM) was both scientifically attractive and offered yet another propaganda victory over the Soviets.
As you might imagine, various Buck Rogers-style rocket packs and small rocket runabouts were considered. Many wild and wonderful four-wheeled prototypes were developed and tested. Initially, concepts weighing over a ton were feasible, because the design brief called for two Saturn launch vehicles per mission. NASA considered pressurized vehicles that would allow astronauts to roam the moon’s surface for weeks at a time.
Inevitably, however, NASA’s budget was cut back, forcing them to build a Lunar Module that could be lifted into orbit and sent on its way to the moon with just one Saturn V. NASA still had its heart set on giving astronauts a vehicle to explore further afield. Boeing worked with General Motors’ defense research division on a lighter and more compact vehicle that could be packed into the LM.
The engineers working on it called it the "moon buggy" — a play on dune buggy. Those were popular back then. Officially, it was designated the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV); it became famous as, simply, the Rover. But even folding that minimalist vehicle into the available cargo space was a challenge.
In 1969, NASA was far from sure that Boeing and GM could actually deliver the moon buggy. So the Spacecraft Design Division, in Houston, decided to hedge its bets. Hmm… what’s smaller than a dune buggy, but offers similar off-road capabilities? Obviously, a dirt bike.
With its moon buggy, Boeing literally reinvented the wheel. The Rover had ingenious expanded wire mesh "tires" that solved the problem of rubber tires over-inflating in the absence of atmospheric pressure. But for its moon minibike, the Spacecraft Design Division chose an easier path. At the time, Honda was flooding the U.S. market with cheap, reliable trail bikes. As NASA’s own photos make clear, someone just went and bought one, to see if it could be controlled by a guy encumbered by a bulky space suit.
Photos from 1969 show a Manned Spacecraft Center engineer testing what appears to be a bone-stock Honda CT90 on a fake lunar surface, while suspended from an elaborate rig to simulate the lunar gravity (by taking up five-sixths of the weight of bike and rider).
Several Apollo astronauts were avid motorcyclists. (Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, rode a Montesa; Pete Conrad, who commanded the second moon mission, died after crashing his Harley.) But none of the engineers involved had ever designed a motorcycle. Maybe that was why they developed prototypes based on proven, commercially available models. Eventually, the full-sized lunar trail bike idea was rejected when someone realized that on the moon, a motorcycle would have to be leaned much further to make it turn.
NASA then tried something like an electric monkey bike. There’s a fascinating archival photo of one prototype being ridden in the famous "Vomit Comet" — a cargo plane that flew in a parabolic climb/dive pattern to simulate lunar gravity for 30 seconds at a time. The minibike in that photo just has ballast where the motor and batteries would go. (You can see that another NASA guy is pushing it. Interestingly, they’re trying it over a little ramp. Can you imagine how eager Travis Pastrana would be, to jump a motorcycle in one-sixth earth gravity?)
NASA went further, developing a working electric minibike with a 10-pound, five-eighths horsepower motor and a 30 amp-hour battery. Top speed was seven miles an hour. I’ve never been able to determine what battery chemistry they planned to use in the moon minibikes, but the Boeing/GM Rover relied on silver-zinc potassium, non-rechargeable batteries to power DC motors. That’s the same battery chemistry still used in applications, like watch batteries, that need high energy density. My best guess is that the motorbike used similar cells.
(I sent the photos accompanying this story to Lennon Rodgers, a friend of mine who once built a bike to race in the Isle of Man TT Zero event, and who previously worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He immediately noticed that the bike in the photos doesn’t have a battery pack big enough for the mission. He suspected it was just an early proof-of-concept that they built to see whether an astronaut could control it at all at one-sixth g.)
What limited technical information I’ve been able to glean about this project came from a 1972 article in AMA News, the association's magazine of the time. Cooling the battery and motor was a challenge because there was no atmosphere to absorb heat. So NASA used the frame itself as a heat sink and added a "water jacket" to those components that was filled with beeswax. The idea was that the wax would melt and absorb heat. When things got too hot, the astronauts would stop long enough for the wax to re-solidify.
Unlike Boeing’s engineers, the minibike engineering team felt they could use rubber tires as long as they calculated what inflation was needed for tires to work properly in a nearly perfect vacuum. Astronauts’ suits also tend to inflate and feel almost rigid under those conditions, which is why the guy in the test rig is leaning forward and almost lying on the bike. They determined that it would be tiring to hold a normal sitting position. It also looks as if the electric test bike has a fork outfitted with an axle clamp that allows for testing radical changes in steering trail.
NASA always seemed to have photographers around, but they really weren’t that great about preserving their history. (One of the original Rover prototypes survived only because a scrap metal dealer recognized it and refused to put it in his crusher!)
When I first learned about the moon motorcycle program, I contacted the press liaison at the National Air & Space Museum. She inquired of the archivist for the Apollo program, who had never heard of it.
Luckily, my friend Lennon found someone at MIT who was familiar with the project. He learned that the minibike program was hampered because the cycles were hard-pressed to tow the Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled scientific cargo trailer that astronauts called "the rickshaw."
According to the Wikipedia article on the MET, NASA used it on the Apollo 14 mission and had planned to use it on Apollo 15 — perhaps with the lunar minicycle. Partway through Apollo 15’s mission planning, NASA revised the plan to use the LRV.
It only took Boeing and GM 18 months to deliver the Rover — in time for Apollo 15, thus rendering the minicycle obsolete before it ever had the chance to prove itself. The LRV fit in the available payload bay, and was just capable of carrying all the gear and lunar samples, so no towing capacity was required. The buggies worked perfectly, except for that one time when an astronaut accidentally broke off a fender. Temporary repairs (yes, with duct tape!) failed, and they were showered with moon roost for the rest of that mission. (None of the prototype scooters had fenders, but they obviously would’ve needed them.)
If any of NASA’s prototype EV minibikes have survived, no one at the agency seems to know where they are. (If any Zillans know where one is, please contact me!)
In the meantime, that AMA News cover is sure evocative, isn’t it? As it was, the Z50 was a popular model for Honda, and introduced thousands of American kids to motorbikes. Mint examples currently command astronomical prices on eBay. (You see what I did there?) Can you imagine how much more popular those monkey bikes would’ve been if they’d been used to explore the lunar surface?
Sadly for motorcyclists, as AMA News wrote in 1972, “NASA feels that four-wheeled vehicles are necessities and two-wheeled vehicles are luxuries. This… has always been basic to the American way of thinking.”
Too bad, because as one person on Reddit wrote, “Riding a motorcycle on the moon is by far the coolest thing a human being could do in the entire history of mankind. Nothing else comes close.” I agree.


Outside of tides, two fundamental processes shift mass in our planet, the convective motion of the mantle and lithosphere, and that of the oceans. A second-order means of mass transfer is that of water via the atmosphere, from sources of evaporated vapour to sites of precipitation and temporary storage (as soil moisture and in snow and ice). Any movement of mass should, theoretically, result in changes in the Earth’s gravitational field. Exploiting that simple notion presents two practical challenges, sufficiently precise measurements of gravity and its continuous monitoring. Gravimeters used for surveys at the surface are now sensitive enough to give a reading for the mass of a person, provided he or she moves close enough to the instrument (gravity obeys an inverse-square law), but ground-based monitoring is so slow and expensive that continuous monitoring is impossible, except at permanent stations that check micro-gravitational changes near active volcanoes and fault zones. Variations in the height at which satellites orbit the Earth stem from changes in gravity. Although the inverse-square law of gravitational attraction smoothes out gravity anomalies at orbital altitudes, such measurements have been used for three decades to assess the shape of the Earth’s surface, were it completely covered with water (the geoid). However, they are not accurate enough to do much more than that.
A project jointly funded by NASA and the German space agency DLR aims to improve the precision of satellite gravity measurements by more than 100 times that of the best to date (Adams, D. 2002. Amazing grace. Nature, v. 416, p. 10-11). The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), launched in March 2002, uses two satellites that follow the same orbit with a spacing of 220 km. Range finders on each measure their separation distance, and so their ups and downs as gravity varies, with far greater accuracy than any other method. Every month they will have gathered enough data to assess the global variation of gravity at their orbital height. That will produce movies of annual and longer term fluctuations, with sufficient detail even to track variations in the Gulf Stream and rises and falls in soil moisture and snow cover, as well as details that relate to deep ocean currents and mantle convection. Unfortunately, gravity and the drag of Earth’s atmosphere limits GRACE’s lifespan to a mere 5 years.


Arriving down from the outer limits of space to aid in the takeover of Neighborville, Space Cadet is armed with out-of-this-world weaponry to take on the plants (at least, he think's he's from outerspace). While relatively average on his own, once transformed into the massive Space Station, it's unfathomable the kind of damage that can be done once it gets going. Throw in some additional Space Cadet freinds for added shields and homing missiles, and this interstellar zombie crew beomes near unstoppable.
The Cosmic Shot is your fairly standard laser gun. It deals a solid 6-7 damage per shot and has slight tracking properties to making aiming that much more simple. Every space enthusist worth their salt needs to have a trusty laser gun by their side, right?
The Space Station uses an alternate version of the Big Bang Beam known as the Big Bang Barrage. This laser cannon fires in 3-round bursts that deal 11-13 damage a shot. It has a a decent fire rate and can be coupled with double jumps to make it much harder to pedict.
What comes up must come down thanks to the Graviy Smash! For around 3 seconds, Space Cadet is able to hover freely above the ground before crashing back down to earth for an inpressive 125 damage! While hovering, you leave a bright purple circle on the ground showing where you will land, giving both you and your opponent to plan accordingly.
When a bit more defense is needed, transform into the powerful Space Station! You are left open while transforming, but it is reatively shorter when compared to other transformations. Once in control of the Space Station, other Space Cadets can attach themselves to you for increased firepower and survivability. After all, being alone on a Space Station with no one to blast plants with must get pretty lonely.
By overcharging the Cosmo Shot, Space Cadet can fire off a percise Big Bang Beam to deal 100 damage to the plant it hits. It takes a few seconds to start up and the shot itself doesn't give much room for error. The Big Bang Beam finds the most use in sniping off targets from afar over direct combat.
Why go to the moon to see craters when you can just make one yourself? Thanks to the power of the Crater Maker and its mighty laser, the Space Station can turn any plant into a soldering hole in the ground. For 3-4 seconds, this behemoth of an attack rapidly deals anywhere from 6-25 damage to any plant standing underneath the Space Station based on how close they are to the center of the beam. Remember that when you use this ability and raise yourself into the air, you become a major target to any plants not in walking distance of your destructive power.
Mission failed? No problem. Just hit that tiny red button and eject out of the Space Station using an Escape Pod. While not the most ideal thing to do, it's better than letting you or your team of fellow Space Cadets get torn to shreds by an attack since if the main Space Station goes down, so does everyone connected to it!
For the times where you or your fellow cadets run low on energy, allow Space Force to increase the fire rate and lower the cooldown times of abilities for all zombies connected to the Space Station. This allows for aggressive pushes and lets those connected to you raise their defensive shields up faster after they shatter. Quite frankly, there's no reason not to take advantage of or question space and its mysterious powers.


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National Aviation Day - 2021-08-19
What is National Aviation Day?
The history of flight is a rich one, beginning in ancient civilisations such as China and Greece. Ancient Chinese weather experts invented the kite to examine weather patterns in the area and Leonardo da Vinci developed many ideas about flying machines and the physics surrounding them. In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright studied the physics and mechanics proposed by previous inventors and turned it into the world's first successful aeroplane. On December 17th of 1903, man flew for the first time, and has not stopped since. Aviation grows to new heights every year, with explorations all the way into space.
When is National Aviation Day?
On August 19th, we celebrate the marvel of flight with National Aviation Day.
History of National Aviation Day
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established National Aviation Day in 1939. The date of observance was chosen after Orville Wright's birthday on August 19th, 1871.
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Recent news reports tell us that Russia has just tested a space-to-space weapon. So, a weapon fired from one space object against another. This is a nightmare scenario for all people cherishing outer space as a place dedicated to peaceful use. But not only that. In fact, it jeopardises the interest of all human beings, because outer space belongs to us all.
Many discussions have taken place over the years about weapons in outer space, and fantasies like Reagan’s aborted Strategic Defence Initiative were put forward. However, discussions have intensified in the recent past, with bold and silly proclamations by President Trump about outer space as just another war-fighting domain and the creation of a ‘Space Force’ as a separate arm of the US military.
Until now, actual weapons related to outer space were limited to anti-satellite weapons launched from Earth or from an aircraft but targeting satellites in outer space. This is bad enough – and they were only tested. But space-to space weapons are an enormous escalation. Weapons in outer space itself will ensure that, indeed, outer space becomes a battlefield, with the consequence that the resulting masses of debris will make a number of important orbits useless for telecom and Earth Observation satellites. When the shooting starts, Elon Musk’s upcoming Starlink telecoms constellation will bleed and we can wave goodbye to the International Space Station or a possible successor.
Now, you could argue that as long as warring nations only make outer space useless for themselves then it is essentially the normal terrestrial war mode. However, because the destruction of just one satellite creates thousands of pieces of debris moving at up to 18,000 miles an hour, large parts of space will become unavailable to all nations when war in space breaks out. And there will be long-term detriment as well because debris stays in space for many years. All this runs counter to outer space being a province of all humankind as defined by the generally accepted Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Hence, war in outer space must be avoided. Placing weapons there in best Star Wars fashion will achieve the opposite.
That the Russian test has opened a fast track to make the province of all humankind an illusion is not only folly but means that transactional cost will go up now. Because space operators will try even more to harden their space hardware to mitigate the consequences of ultimate space warfare. We then enter the ‘screw-without-an-end’ scenario that we know all too well from arms races on Earth. Destructive ability will be sought countered by protective measures, only to trigger new destructive abilities, and so forth. All the while, those nations with no military ambitions in outer space will suffer and be sucked in.
It is easy to be cynical and conclude that the world will just take its evil turn, and that there is nothing we can do about it. But such defeatism is not warranted. As citizens we must protest what are in reality attacks on the shared province of humankind and insist that our governments resist the weaponisation of outer space. The lack of popular and political attention to the issue is the greatest ally of those wanting to mess up space.
When we speak up against the weaponisation of outer space, we will find that there is far more support for keeping outer space as a domain for peaceful use than meets the eye. A large number of nations has absolutely no interest in conflicts in outer space, but they must be woken from their Sleeping Beauty dreams! They must be brought to realise what a mortal threat to their short and long term interests the latest developments portend. That is our task as citizens!


How China, Russia Could Cripple US Satellites & Paralyze the US Military & Economy—Brandon Weichert (Video)
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Russia and China have weaponized space and pulled far ahead of America in the space race, says geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert. “The Americans had better start playing catch up, otherwise, we will face a space Pearl Harbor,” Weichert said.
They already have the capacity to cripple American satellites, which would not only paralyze U.S. military operations. It would also prevent you from doing basic things like paying for gas with your credit card or getting directions on your GPS.


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McLean, VA — June 02, 2016 – Trowbridge & Trowbridge, LLC, a leading federal information systems and solutions provider, announced today that the company has been awarded a $3.2M contract to provide database administration, software development, and custom application services for the U.S. Army’s Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Maintenance Engineering Division (AEM). RDECOM AEM provides aviation engineering services in support of the Army and Department of Defense’s (DoD) rotary wing (helicopter) fleets.
Under the 5-year contract, Trowbridge will be responsible for management and maintenance of the database system that serves as the primary repository for Army helicopter maintenance engineering calls and orders worldwide. President and CEO Karen Trowbridge said, “These engineering documents are a critical component of the Army’s Airworthiness Certification process. This new contract provides a unique opportunity for us to directly support the Warfighters and their weapon systems.”
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Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $19,611,424 for firm-fixed-price delivery order N6833517F0079 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N68335-16-G-0046) in support of the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Work will be performed in Afghanistan (95 percent); and Bingen, Washington (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2018.
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Our visit to Cape Canaveral was for one reason only, to visit the Kennedy Space Center. We wanted to avoid any weekend crowds so I took Monday off work and after getting everyone started, we arrived around 9:30 AM with everyone fresh and ready for adventure. Jen and I both knew we had a long day ahead so we came prepped with treats, toys, liquids, and a heaping pile of patience.
We stood in line and picked up three tickets, Leona was free but Evelyn was charged the child rate. Not surprisingly, we passed through security and entered into the Rocket Garden where a dozen or so rockets stood erect, pointing towards the sky. Each rocket had a small description, which we tried to read, and there were interactive exhibits that the kids and adults enjoyed. You get to climb aboard Mercury-Redstone, Gemini and Apollo capsules and get an idea of the cramped quarters America’s astronaut pioneers endured.
After the Rocket Garden, we walked through the Space Center, visiting the Exploration Space where they were giving a very loud introduction into the future of Space exploration. Neither girl likes loud noises, so we wandered unattended through the back exhibits of the Exploration Space. There were many interesting things to read, but nothing to hold the attention of a two and four year-old.
The next place we visited was the Space Shuttle Atlantis complex. You know where it is the entire time you are in the center, you see the large fuel tank and booster rockets standing high. As you get closer to the complex, you walk underneath them and realize they are replicas, which diminishes the appeal, but it is still impressive how large they were.
Once inside the complex, you watch a four-minute movie about how the Space Shuttle program begun. They show the timeline using actors, re-enacting the program from conception to launch in the early 1980s. The theatre only has one row of bench seats in the rear, but the family sat on the floor. After the initial movie, you enter into another theatre, one with a rounded screen that encompasses the whole theatre. It starts showing the shuttles taking off, landing, shots from space, all quick snippets to bring up those childhood memories (for me at least) of how awesome the Space Shuttle program was. Finally, the screen goes transparent and in the background, you see the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
The whole theatre was to control how many people crowd into the room surrounding the Space Shuttle, but once inside you can spend as long as you want wandering around. We spent probably an hour, walking around the Atlantis looking at it in detail. Jen and I both were surprised to see the little heat shields up close and how delicate they look, although they deflect an immense amount of heat on re-entry.
There are plenty of mockups of the different components of the Space Shuttle. It was fun to watch the girls play inside of them, flipping switches at will. There was a real-life astronaut there, answering questions, providing insight into the challenges of space flight. As the girls played, I stood by and listened intently to him talking about being in space. Space flight seems effortless once you are up there, but he talked about how you have to always think ahead … thousands of miles pass by you ever second!
The rest of the complex was filled with fun activities for adults and kids. There was an anti-gravity slide which gives kids the sensation of weightlessness for a few milliseconds, Evelyn went down it twice and commented on the ‘air’ she got as we slide down. There was a scale replica of what it was like to crawl around in the space shuttle, including a crawl through a thirty-foot Plexiglas clear tube that was 50 feet in the air. Both of the girls enjoyed that crawl, I did not enjoy it as much but I am happy to report I survived.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis complex empties into a gift shop, where I let the girls choose their toy to remember the Kennedy Space Center by. Evelyn choose a replica of the Space Shuttle, fuel tanks, and booster rockets. It was a very cool toy, a bit expensive, but worth every penny. Leona choose the stuffed bear astronaut and the hard plastic Space Shuttle.
The girls were pretty worn down after our exploration so we stopped by for some lunch, hoping the food would recharge their energy and their attitudes. As we ate lunch we realized both the girls were pretty much done exploring, we had spent three hours exploring the Kennedy Space Center but agreed we could not spend any more time here without risking a meltdown. There was a ninety-minute bus tour that I was dying to go on, but we did not want to risk a repeat of the bus incident at Zion.
As we left, I was filled with happiness that I have to explore a place that has been on my bucket list since I was a little boy. It was amazing to see a place as sacred as Kennedy Space Center, the closest to space most American’s get to explore. I was disappointed the girls were not up for more exploring and I would consider coming back another day, but the entrance fee was nearly $150 for the whole family and I could not justify spending that for a bus tour.
I am glad we came and the next time we are in the Orlando area, we will make a day trip to Kennedy Space Center again. If you come to Disney World, you should book a day tour here as well.


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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is the government agency responsible for the space program of the United States of America and the civil and military aerospace research.
July 29, 1958 President Eisenhower signed the act of incorporation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which began its activities in October of that year. Von Braun became the director and the center occupying 7,000 people. The first NASA programs were focused on the possibility of human missions in space, under the pressure of competition between the U.S. and the USSR due to the cold war. The Mercury program was the first NASA program designed to determine whether the man could travel in space...read more


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Airlines 'survive' by carrying cargo
Late last month, Virgin Atlantic's VS251 landed at Heathrow Airport (UK) with 256 full seats but did not violate social spacing.
The seats, along with the luggage compartment, are filled with medical supplies. It was one of nine flights in which Virgin used a passenger plane to transport breathing apparatus, masks, gloves and other medical supplies between Shanghai and London. Of course, the flight has no passengers.
It is one of the vivid examples of how a pandemic radically changed the performance of the aviation industry. Airlines have long been carrying cargo with passengers but have never intended to use passenger planes to carry only cargo.
But that changed in March 2020, when thousands of flights were canceled because of Covid-19. Meanwhile, demand and prices for goods sent by aircraft soared, facilitating the reuse of idle passenger aircraft.
"Cargo helps planes take off and gives us hope of overcoming difficulties, instead of being shelved on the ground," said Dominic Kennedy, Virgin's Head of Freight Operations. know.
Cargo is loaded on passenger cabin in an aircraft. Photo: NYT
Earlier, Virgin had never used passenger aircraft to perform fully cargo flights. But now, they operate 90 flights per week, even after deep cuts in business. And Virgin is not the only company that has chosen to manage this when the aviation industry's future is uncertain.
In the US, one of the three largest airlines started operating freighter flights in March 2020. American Airlines has not done so for more than 3 decades. But now, they fly 40 flights a week.
Even Lufthansa (Germany) has long separated cargo operations from passengers now taking advantage of the opportunity by converting Airbus A330 passenger aircraft to cargo. Last month, the airline added a number of passenger air cargo flights to bring medical goods from China to Frankfurt.
The goods that people and businesses transport by air vary according to the season, but they are often expensive, perishable, urgently needed or some of all. These include items such as smartphones, auto parts, seafood, pharmaceuticals, mail, and fashion clothes. But a new commodity has appeared in recent months: medical supplies.
Facemasks, gloves, ventilators and the like "create the highest demand for large quantities of goods, but cannot say that other products and goods are no longer in need of transportation", Harald Gloy - Head of freight division of Lufthansa Cargo said.
Typically, about half of all air freight is operated by companies like UPS, FedEx and DHL. The other half is usually carried in the luggage compartment under the passenger seats. But this is not the usual time.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the reduction of most of the worldwide flights in March resulted in a 23% reduction in air freight. Meanwhile, the demand for goods by air reduced less, only 15%.
The gap between supply and demand, along with falling jet fuel prices, has caught the attention of airline executives. "This is a bright spot for the industry, because it is the only segment that is active and generates revenue of any size," said Alexandre de Juniac, head of the International Air Transport Association.
Worldwide, the average price for transporting a kilogram of air freight was US $ 3.63 last month, up 65% from March 2020, according to WorldACD, a provider of aggregated logistics data. transferred from 70 member firms. This is the highest increase recorded and the largest monthly increase since WorldACD began collecting data in January 2008.
Freight prices from Asia have skyrocketed, due to the demand for medical supplies manufactured in factories there, according to WorldACD. But when the global economy is going down, the demand for goods and freight can drop rapidly.
Until then, passenger airlines will continue to offer cargo flights, and IATA is calling on governments around the globe to help more. In particular, the association urges governments to quickly approve cargo flights, exempt crews from quarantine and help airlines find places to handle cargo and rest for the crew.
In the US, airlines like Lufthansa are slow to use passenger cabs to transport cargo, as they are awaiting approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. Last month, the agency outlined the steps the airline should take to use that space safely.
Cargo is transported out of the passenger cabin of the Lufthansa aircraft. Photo: NYT
In Lufthansa, every cargo flight has three flight attendants, compared with 15 on the passenger flight. They are there to make sure the cargo does not move during the flight or catch fire. "The lower level has a fire detection system in the cabin, unlike the passenger compartment because passengers will often observe the abnormality," said Harald Gloy.
However, converting passenger aircraft to transport cargo is not easy. Decades ago, Lufthansa tested using Boeing 737 aircraft to transport daytime passengers and cargo at night. They proceed by removing seats every day. In the end, they found it too troublesome and not worth doing.
"Obviously, this is not only economically unsustainable, but also technical and operational," commented Harald Gloy. However, these days, using passenger planes to transport goods is a possible measure, bringing a little hope for carriers.
"Lack of capacity is a temporary problem. The crisis will affect the transport of goods by air with the same level as other industries," said Alexandre de Juniac.
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Always maintain your spirit of adventure. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man in space to first men on the moon. He stays fit, energetic, and fascinated with life. Beloved american hero and astronaut buzz aldrin reflects on the wisdom, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered—both in outer space and on earth—through his event-filled life, guiding principles, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation.
No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon #ad - For his 80th birthday, Buzz went diving in the Galapagos and hitched a ride on a whale shark. How he learned to be proud of being the second man on the moon. No dream is too high is a beautiful memento, a thought-provoking set of ideas, and a new opportunity for Buzz Aldrin to connect with the masses of people who recognize his unique place in human history.
No dream is too high whittles down buzz aldrin's event-filled life into a short list of principles he values, each illustrated by fascinating anecdotes and memories, such as: · Second comes right after first. Look for opportunities, not obstacles.
Return to EarthOpen Road Media #ad - As aldrin puts it, “i traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before. Return to earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator, ” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people.
Return to Earth #ad - . With that splash, aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him.
Apollo 11 astronaut buzz aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun.
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in SpaceSt. Martin's Press #ad - Written with new york times bestselling author don davis, the last Man on the Moon is the astronaut story never before told - about the fear, love and sacrifice demanded of the few men who dared to reach beyond the heavens for the biggest prize of all - the Moon. His career spanned the entire gemini and apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to the moment when he left man's last footprint on the Moon as commander of Apollo 17.
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space #ad - Between those two historic events lay more adventures than an ordinary person could imagine as Cernan repeatedly put his life, his family and everything he held dear on the altar of an obsessive desire. The basis of the 2014 award-winning feature-length documentary! A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers.
Eugene cernan was a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight.
Carrying the Fire: 50th Anniversary EditionFarrar, Straus and Giroux #ad - Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the apollo 11 journey to the moonThe years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events—technical and spiritual—of our lifetime.
Carrying the Fire: 50th Anniversary Edition #ad - In carrying the fire, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, Collins conveys, and humor of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force, presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, through his days as a test pilot, to his Apollo 11 space walk, light, and movement from someone who has seen the fragile earth from the other side of the moon.
First Man: The Life of Neil A. ArmstrongSimon & Schuster #ad - In first man, the personal, technological, epic, and iconic blend to form the portrait of a great but reluctant hero who will forever be known as history’s most famous space traveler. These milestones made it seem, as armstrong’s mother Viola memorably put it, “as if from the very moment he was born—farther back still—that our son was somehow destined for the Apollo 11 mission.
For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Armstrong’s storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, Hansen asserts, paid in kind by his wife and children. He was also—as James R. For the forty-five years since the Moon landing, his religious beliefs, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, and his private life.
In a riveting narrative filled with revelations, hansen vividly recreates Armstrong’s career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative transatmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space.
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong #ad - Upon his return to earth, Armstrong was honored and celebrated for his monumental achievement. Hansen reveals in this fascinating and important biography—misunderstood. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, this “magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century” Publishers Weekly, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, starred review is an unparalleled biography of an American icon.
In a penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. Armstrong’s accomplishments as engineer, test pilot, and astronaut have long been a matter of record, but Hansen’s unprecedented access to private documents and unpublished sources and his interviews with more than 125 subjects including more than fifty hours with Armstrong himself yield this first in-depth analysis of an elusive American celebrity still renowned the world over.
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space ExplorationNational Geographic #ad - President as rousing as jfk’s promise to reach the moon by the end of the 1960s—an audacious, inspiring goal-and a unified vision for space exploration. Celebrated astronaut, development, science, brilliant engineer, bestselling author, commerce, Aldrin believes it is not only possibly but vital to America’s future to keep pushing the space frontier outward for the sake of exploration, and security.
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration #ad - . What we need, he argues, is a commitment by the U. S. Can astronauts reach mars by 2035? Absolutely, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon. In mission to mars, aldrin plots that trajectory, stressing that American-led space exploration is essential to the economic and technological vitality of the nation and the world.
Do you dare to dream big? Then join Aldrin in his thought provoking and inspiring Mission to Mars.
Neil Armstrong: A Life of FlightThomas Dunne Books #ad - The book is full of never-before-seen photos and personal details written down for the first time, his relationships with the other astronauts, including what Armstrong really felt when he took that first step on the moon, what life in NASA was like, and what he felt the future of space exploration should be.
As the only reporter to have covered all 166 American astronaut flights and moon landings Jay knows these events intimately. Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil's life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend – Jay Barbree.
Working from 50 years of conversations he had with neil, interviews, NASA spaceflight transcripts, from notes, and remembrances of those Armstrong trusted, family, Barbree writes about Neil's three passions – flight, and friends. Neil armstrong himself said, "Barbree is history's most experienced space journalist.
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight #ad - . Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Together neil and jay discussed everything, from his love of flying, to the war years, and of course his time in space. This is the inside story of neil armstrong from the time he flew combat missions in the Korean War and then flew a rocket plane called the X-15 to the edge of space, to when he saved his Gemini 8 by flying the first emergency return from Earth orbit and then flew Apollo-Eleven to the moon's Sea of Tranquility.
He is exceptionally well qualified to recall and write the events and emotions of our time.
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the MoonCrown Archetype #ad - We’re number one on the runway. The flight of apollo 11 made aldrin one of the most famous persons on our planet, yet few people know the rest of this true American hero’s story. Understand. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history.
The twin demons of depression and alcoholism emerged–the first of which Aldrin confronted early and publicly, and the second of which he met with denial until it nearly killed him. Forty years ago, minutes after neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth.
He burned through two marriages, his Air Force career came to an inglorious end, and he found himself selling cars for a living when he wasn’t drunkenly wrecking them. As an adventure story, a searing memoir of self-destruction and self-renewal, and as a visionary rallying cry to once again set our course for Mars and beyond, Magnificent Desolation is the thoroughly human story of a genuine hero.
From the glory of being part of the mission that fulfilled president Kennedy’s challenge to reach the moon before the decade was out, Aldrin returned home to an Air Force career stripped of purpose or direction, other than as a public relations tool that NASA put to relentless use in a seemingly nonstop world tour.
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon #ad - In magnificent desolation, aldrin not only gives us a harrowing first-person account of the lunar landing that came within seconds of failure and the ultimate insider’s view of life as one of the superstars of America’s space program, he also opens up with remarkable candor about his more personal trials–and eventual triumphs–back on Earth.
. In the years since, millions more have had their Earth-centric perspective unalterably changed by the iconic photograph of Aldrin standing on the surface of the moon, the blackness of space behind him and his fellow explorer and the Eagle reflected in his visor.
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the MoonHenry Holt and Co. #ad - The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.
And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another.
The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on christmas eve, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. The full story of apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—Jim Lovell’s co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13—can do it justice.
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon #ad - But when frank borman, jim lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad.
"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to TodayHarperCollins e-books #ad - From sputnik to the international Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. Barbree also shows how much the space program and its press coverage have changed over time. Live from cape canaveral’ encapsulates the most technically exciting half century in history. Neil armstrongsome fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia.
He shares affectionate portraits of astronauts as well as some of his fellow journalists and tells some very funny behind-the-scenes stories—many involving astronaut pranks. Warm and perceptive, he reminds us just how thrilling the great moments of the space race were and why America fell in love with its heroic, sometimes larger-than-life astronauts.
"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today #ad - In "live from cape canaveral, " barbree—the only reporter who has covered every mission flown by astronauts—offers his unique perspective on the space program. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, right outside Cape Canaveral, Florida, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled as often as they soared.
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGBRandom House #ad - A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. Laced with startling revelations—about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA and KGB, covert operations in Berlin and Prague, double and triple agents, and the fateful autumn of 1989—The Main Enemy is history at its action-packed best.
. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. Bearden was called back to washington after the soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and was made chief of the Soviet/East Euro-pean Division—just in time to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe, and the implosion of the Soviet Union.
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB #ad - The clandestine operations they masterminded took them from the sewers of moscow to the back streets of Baghdad, but the action centers on Washington, from Cairo and Havana to Prague and Berlin, one by one, starting in the infamous "Year of the Spy"—when, the CIA’s agents in Moscow began to be killed, up through to the very last man.
Behind the scenes with the cia's covert operations in afghanistan, and for the first time he reveals here what he did and whom America backed, Milt Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets, and why. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose through the ranks to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War.


The South Pole is the uttermost end of the Earth, and it has been over a century since anyone has tried to retrace the ill-fated steps of Captain Robert Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition. – the 1,800-mile return journey from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole on foot. British adventurers Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere have set out to complete the longest unsupported polar journey in history, the Scott Expedition, along the same route Scott succumbed to in 1912. The men are now in the final week of hauling their heavy sleds across the coldest, windiest, most inhospitable place in the world – and they’ve been doing it for more than a quarter of a year. [Read more...]
On the surface, it would seem that new frontiers have been just about exhausted on Earth… but sometimes you just have to look deeper. The world’s oceans are vast, covering 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and containing 97 percent of the water… yet only about 5 percent of the ocean and its depths have been explored. The Neptune Canada project is aiming to change that. By filling us in with real-time video and data direct from the far reaches of the sea floor, the project launched in 2009 is already helping scientists understand mysteries of the deep – and they’re doing it with the help of people like you. [Read more...]
A rich space tourist who earlier payed $20 million to visit the International Space Station, is now working to promote an even more ambitious project – a manned flyby around the planet Mars in 2018. Much like the Apollo 10 mission which proceeded the famous Apollo landing, this mission would be only intended to make a quick flyby of the red planet, in fact only spending about 10 hours at its closest point 100,000km above the planets surface. [Read more...]
It’s exciting that in recent years a host of serious projects are being launched, directed at the goal of colonizing another planet in the solar system. From the groundbreaking Curiosity rover exploring the surface of Mars, to the reality TV funded Mars One project, the world is pushing hard to put the first permanent inhabitants on the surface of another world. Now Enrico Dini, the inventor of a massive 3D printer called D-Shape, is teaming up with the European Space Agency and building innovator Foster + Partners in an attempt to solve one of the most challenging aspects of colonizing another planet: lifting a heavy habitat off earth and getting it there. [Read more...]
Would you volunteer for a one-way trip to Mars, never again to return to the Earth? That is the proposition the non-profit organization Mars One is putting forth for a group of 4 brave people with a distinct lack of nostalgia for old Mother Earth. Once on the red planet, they will establish a habitable, sustainable outpost designed to receive additional astronauts every two years. If the plan works, we will see Mars being colonized by as early as 2023… that’s 10 short years people! [Read more...]
Since 1981 the Space Shuttle has been rocketing astronauts and important scientific projects out of the Earths atmosphere and into weightless space. Tomorrow at 11:26 a.m. EDT, the Shuttle Atlantis makes the 135th and final Space Shuttle flight, delivering a resupply to the International Space Station and ending the now 30 year old Shuttle program. To comemorate the launch we bring you a fun infographic about the sheer size of the behemoth orbiter vehicle and the distances it has traveled. [Read more...]
Taken in 1915, these fantastic pictures are from the dawn of color photography, and from an astounding event during the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.” Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew where in the midst of one of the most incredible expeditions and subsequent survival stories of the last century… and managed to photograph much of it in color.
Filmed without permission or permits, Steve Duncan goes urban spelunking to find the hidden treasures under New York City. Followed by his brave cameraman, Duncan explores beautiful closed off subway tunnels from bygone era’s, the first underground sewer for the city and interviews the people that inhabit the dark place. See the beautiful photos he’s taken of his many adventures at undercity.org. [Read more...]
Six years before the world’s first manned space flight, Walt Disney released a television series that predicted their vision for the future. The 1955 program, “Man and the Moon,” stunned viewers with it’s innovative and beautiful vision of lunar space flight; even today, the rich graphical work of this series is absolutely astounding. We are pleased to bring you a remixed, modern-day version of this film, as well as two others from the same series, set to electronic beats.
Recently Disney has increased their online presence with an exclusive YouTube channel and Twitter account. Through these forms of media, Disney is reaching out to fans in a way that even the creators of “Man on the Moon” would have never thought possible.


The Applications of Pendulums
There are a number of real-life physical systems where the pendulum is the underlying mechanism. Lets examine some examples.
i) The human body. Walking is often likened to the motion of two coupled pendula where the supported leg is analogous to an inverted pendulum with the suspension point on the ground and the swinging leg analogous to a damped pendulum. As humans learn to walk, control of this system is developed and research suggests that individuals favour a step frequency and step length which minimises their expenditure of energy. The variables of step length and frequency are essentially parameters of the modelled system. Although such a model is a significant simplification of human motion, the pendulum remains the fundamental mechanism in walking.
ii) Rocket Science. When a space rocket is launched, in order to control its trajectory, the rocket itself must be kept accurately balanced in line with the direction of thrust. This is typically implemented using a thrust vector control system whereby corrective bursts are fired during the ascent from a set of gimballed control thrusters at the base of the rocket. This system is analogous to a forced pendulum in three-dimensional space. The explicit forcing, a physical external force exerted on the system, is provided by the set of control thrusters that stabilise the pendulum in the inverted position. Again, this is a simplification of the entire dynamics of a space shuttle launch, but the classical engineering problem of balancing an inverted pendulum plays a key role in controlling the rocket.