NEW YORK, NY: June 21, 2016 – Several major airlines began rerouting scheduled flight to avoid the airspace near the Strait of Hormuz. Airlines have made this decision in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone. The U.S. government issued a warning that commercial airliners could become collateral damage and be attacked by mistake.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, issued a warning stating that there is a significant “potential for miscalculation or misidentification” in the region following the shooting down of a U.S. Navy RQ-4A surveillance drone. The aircraft, which has a wingspan slightly larger than a Boeing 737, was brought down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Thursday.
Following the warning several airlines including British Airways, KLM, Lufthansa, Qantas, Malaysia Airlines, andSingapore Airlines all announced that they would be rerouting flights to avoid the region.
This new warning by the FAA starkly indicates the danger. Previously, the FAA had warned of risk in the region, but now that an aircraft similar in size to the most popular commercial airliner, Boeing’s 737, with many analysts pointing to the shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines flight over the Ukraine in 2014 which resulted in the deaths of 283 passengers and 15 crew.
These route changes could have a significant effect on the bottom lines of several Gulf long-haul carriers, which already have faced challenges under the Trump administration.
“The threat of a civil aircraft shoot-down in southern Iran is real,” warned OPSGROUP, a company which monitors the world’s airspaces for changes and risks which could affect their 5,000+ member airlines, pilots, controllers, and dispatchers.
The FAA made a similar warning in May to commercial airliners of the possibility of Iranian anti-aircraft gunners mistaking them for military aircraft.
Mistakenly misidentifying a passenger jet for a military jet can happen. It occurred in the region 30 years ago. In July, 1988 the U.S. Navy accidentally shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing all 290 on board. The passenger jet was hit by a SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired by the USS Vincennes, a U.S. Navy Guided Missile Cruiser. The U.S. vessel fired the missile at the passenger jet thinking it was an Iranian military jet about to attack.
The warning affects the area of the Tehran Flight Information Region. The FAA did not elaborate on the warning and the FAA’s operations center referred all questions to their press office, which has yet to respond to Cruise & Travel Report’s questions. According to flight experts, the area not only includes the Tehran Flight Region, but it likely extends as much as 15 miles off of the Iranian coast
There are “heightened military activities and increased political tensions in the region, which present an inadvertent risk to U.S. civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification,” the FAA said. “The risk to U.S. civil aviation is demonstrated by the Iranian surface-to-air missile shoot-down of a U.S. unmanned aircraft system on 19 June 2019 while it was operating in the vicinity of civil air routes above the Gulf of Oman.”
The Persian Gulf is home to some of the world’s top long-haul carriers, who already have been battered by Trump’s travel bans targeting a group of predominantly Muslim countries, as well as an earlier ban on laptops in airplane cabins for Mideast carriers. Etihad, the Abu Dhabi-based long-haul carrier, said it had “contingency plans” in place, without elaborating.
“We will decide what further action is required after carefully evaluating the FAA directive to U.S. carriers,” the carrier told The Associated Press.
Emirates, the long-haul carrier in Dubai near the Strait of Hormuz, said in a statement to AP that it was “rerouting all flights away from areas of possible conflict.” Its sister airline, the low-cost carrier FlyDubai, said it “adjusted some of the existing flight paths in the region as a precautionary measure.”
Qantas said it would reroute its London flights to avoid the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. British Airways, KLM, Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines said their flights would avoid the strait. Lufthansa said it would avoid both the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, as well as nearby land. However, it said it would continue its flights to Tehran.
Qatar Airways did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Iran said the U.S. drone “violated” its territorial airspace, while the U.S. called the missile fire “an unprovoked attack” in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf. OPSGROUP said the Iranian weapons system that shot down the drone was comparable to the Russian Buk system used in 2014 Malaysian Airlines shoo-tdown in Ukraine.
“Any error in that system could cause it to find another target nearby – another reason not to be anywhere near this part of the Straits of Hormuz,” OPSGROUP said.
The incident immediately heightened the crisis already gripping the wider region, which is rooted in Trump withdrawing the U.S. a year ago from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal and imposing crippling new sanctions on Tehran. Recently, Iran quadrupled its production of low-enriched uranium to be on pace to break one of the deal’s terms by next week while threatening to raise enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels on July 7 if Europe doesn’t offer it a new deal.
Citing unspecified Iranian threats, the U.S. has sent an aircraft carrier to the Middle East and deployed additional troops alongside the tens of thousands already there. All this has raised fears that a miscalculation or further rise in tensions could push the U.S. and Iran into an open conflict, 40 years after Tehran’s Islamic Revolution.
“We do not have any intention for war with any country, but we are fully ready for war,” Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami said in a televised address Thursday.


The enigmatic allure of Mars has captivated the scientific community and the public alike, as this distant world promises to unravel a tapestry of planetary evolution and potential biological processes.
In recent decades, the veil over the Red Planet's secrets has been incrementally lifted, thanks to a fleet of robotic explorers that have traversed its dusty expanses, probed its rugged terrain, and scrutinized its thin veil of atmosphere. These forays into Martian exploration have yielded a trove of data, revealing intricate details about its climate, geology, and the tantalizing possibility of ancient life-supporting environments.
With each mission, from the pioneering flybys to the sophisticated rovers, our understanding of Mars has transformed from a desolate, static world to a dynamic planet with a complex history.
Yet, as we stand on the cusp of more revealing discoveries, one must ponder what other secrets Mars may hold beneath its crimson surface, and how these revelations could redefine our place in the cosmos.
- Mars is about two times smaller than Earth and has a very thin atmosphere.
- Mars has polar ice caps that grow and shrink with the seasons.
- Mars can be observed with the naked eye and appears red when observed.
- Over 40 probes have been sent to Mars since the 1960s, indicating the great interest in studying the planet due to its proximity and similarities to Earth.
Mars' Unique Characteristics
While approximately half the size of Earth, Mars exhibits a myriad of unique characteristics that have captivated scientists and space enthusiasts alike. Its stark, reddish appearance stems from iron oxide, or rust, on its surface, giving it the moniker 'The Red Planet.'
Mars' geological features are striking and diverse, including the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, and a vast canyon, Valles Marineris, dwarfing the Grand Canyon. The presence of polar ice caps and evidence of ancient water flows raise intriguing possibilities about Mars' past.
These factors, alongside its relatively benign environment, make Mars a prime candidate for future colonization. Investigations into its suitability for human habitation continue, as the planet promises a new frontier for exploration and discovery.
Building on our understanding of Mars' unique features and potential for colonization, it's essential to explore how historical observations have shaped our knowledge of the Red Planet.
Early astronomers peered through telescopes, seeking to understand Mars' movements and surface. Their observations led to a blend of both scientific insight and fanciful myth, most notably the theory of Martian canals.
- Early astronomers, like Giovanni Schiaparelli, recorded seeing 'canali' on Mars, sparking theories of an alien civilization.
- Percival Lowell popularized the idea of Martian canals, suggesting an intricate network constructed by intelligent beings.
- Telescopic enhancements over time disproved the existence of canals, revealing natural surface features instead.
- Historical sketches and maps of Mars by astronomers showcase the evolution of our spatial understanding.
- Observations from Mars' oppositions, when it's closest to Earth, have been critical for increasing the accuracy of our knowledge.
Pioneering Mariner Missions
As the vanguard of interplanetary exploration, the Mariner missions of the 1960s and '70s marked a series of firsts in humanity's reconnaissance of Mars, beginning with the groundbreaking Mariner 4 probe that provided our first close-up images of the Martian surface.
These trailblazing missions charted a course through significant exploration challenges, contending with the complexities of space travel and the intricacies of Mars' thin atmosphere. Mariner 4's revelations about the absence of a Martian magnetic field and the presence of craters laid the foundation for subsequent studies.
Later, Mariner 6, 7, and the orbiter Mariner 9 enriched our understanding of the Martian climate, investigating seasonal changes and atmospheric composition. Each mission built upon the last, painting a more detailed portrait of the Red Planet for eager scientists on Earth.
Groundbreaking Mars Rovers
Following the path forged by earlier missions, the advent of Mars rovers marked a significant leap in our exploration capabilities, allowing for unprecedented close-up study of the planet's surface. These robotic explorers, equipped with cutting-edge mars rover technology, have traversed the alien terrain, collecting data that continues to shape our understanding of the Red Planet and inform future mars exploration strategies.
- Spirit and Opportunity: Unveiled the history of water on Mars.
- Curiosity: Analyzed the planet's climate and geology for habitable conditions.
- Perseverance: Searching for signs of past microbial life and collecting samples.
- Ingenuity Helicopter: Demonstrates powered flight in Mars' thin atmosphere.
- Future Rovers: Will aim to bring Mars samples back to Earth and prepare for human exploration.
Each rover's mission builds upon the last, painting a more detailed portrait of Mars with every discovery.
Global Surveyor Discoveries
What secrets did the Mars Global Surveyor unveil about the enigmatic Red Planet during its mission? Launched in 1996, this spacecraft dramatically increased our understanding by exploring Mars' surface in unprecedented detail and analyzing the Martian atmosphere. Its findings altered our approach to Martian science and fueled further exploration.
|Evidence of Liquid Water
|Suggested past/present water activity
|Martian Weather Patterns
|Helped understand atmospheric dynamics
|Polar Ice Caps' Composition
|Confirmed CO2 and water ice presence
|Revealed dynamic geological processes
The mission's revelations, from the possibility of liquid water to the surprising changes on the Martian surface, have been instrumental in shaping ongoing and future missions, continuing to intrigue and inspire scientists and space enthusiasts alike.
Odyssey's Water Ice Findings
Launched in 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting vast amounts of water ice beneath the arid Martian surface, particularly near the poles. This revelation has profound implications for understanding Martian climate change and assessing Mars' habitability potential.
Here are five key points to consider:
- The presence of water ice suggests that Mars may have once had a warmer and wetter climate.
- Subsurface ice could be a crucial resource for future human exploration and potential colonization.
- Studying the distribution of ice can reveal past environmental conditions and climate cycles on Mars.
- The discovery encourages the search for microbial life, as water is a fundamental ingredient for life as we know it.
- Water ice on Mars could be a natural storehouse of the planet's climate history, offering insights into its atmospheric evolution.
European Mars Express Insights
Building on the Odyssey's groundbreaking discovery of subsurface water ice, the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission has furthered our understanding of the Red Planet by providing detailed information about its structure and past water flow.
Launched in 2003, Mars Express has been pivotal in unearthing Mars' geological features, offering high-resolution imagery and data that have revolutionized our knowledge of the planet's history and surface conditions.
Among the mission's significant mars express discoveries are the confirmation of water-formed minerals and the detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere, hinting at potential geological or even biological activity.
Mars Express continues to send valuable insights, enhancing our comprehension of Mars as a dynamic world with a complex past.
MAVEN's Atmospheric Secrets
Peering into the thin veil of gases enveloping Mars, NASA's MAVEN mission is shedding light on how the Red Planet's atmosphere has evolved over time. By exploring Martian weather and unraveling atmospheric composition, MAVEN provides insights into climatic processes that may have once supported liquid water—and by extension—potential life.
- Atmospheric Escape: MAVEN measures how solar wind and radiation strip away Mars' atmosphere, leading to water loss.
- Seasonal Changes: Observations of temperature and pressure shifts offer clues about Martian weather patterns.
- Gas Composition: Analyzing gases like carbon dioxide, argon, and nitrogen helps unravel the history of Mars' atmosphere.
- Magnetic Field Interactions: MAVEN explores how Mars' remnant magnetic fields affect atmospheric loss.
- Ionosphere Mapping: The mission examines the thin layer of charged particles in Mars' upper atmosphere, contributing to our understanding of its current state and evolution.
Perseverance's Ongoing Quest
While the MAVEN mission continues to enhance our understanding of Mars' atmospheric changes, the Perseverance rover embarks on its own groundbreaking journey, probing the Martian surface for signs of ancient life and preparing samples for future return to Earth.
Perseverance's scientific experiments are meticulously designed to analyze Mars' geological features, providing insights into the planet's environmental history and habitability potential. The rover's suite of instruments, including cameras, spectrometers, and a subsurface radar, work in concert to scrutinize the Red Planet's terrain.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do Mars' Dust Storms Affect Its Climate and the Ability to Operate Missions on the Surface?
Mars' dust storms can lead to diminished efficiency of solar panels on equipment, complicating mission energy management. Additionally, these storms contribute to mechanical wear on rover components, hindering surface operations and data collection.
Has There Been Any Discovery of Geological Activity, Such as Volcanism or Marsquakes, on Mars in Recent Years?
Recent Mars missions have uncovered evidence of geological activity, including marsquakes and potential volcanism, reshaping our understanding of the planet's dynamic topography and punctuating its surface with numerous impact craters.
What Are the Challenges and Proposed Solutions for Potential Human Colonization of Mars?
Colonizing Mars presents challenges such as ensuring human adaptation to harsh conditions. Proposed solutions include advanced life support systems and terraforming, but these raise complex ethical considerations regarding planetary protection and alteration.
How Does the Lack of a Strong Magnetic Field on Mars Impact Its Potential to Support Life?
Mars's weak magnetic field exposes it to harsh Martian radiation, accelerating atmosphere stripping and diminishing its ability to shield potential life from cosmic perils, posing a significant challenge for habitability prospects.
Are There Any International Treaties or Space Laws Governing the Exploration and Potential Exploitation of Martian Resources?
International space law, including the Outer Space Treaty, guides Mars exploration. However, space ethics and treaty loopholes raise concerns about the exploitation of Martian resources, necessitating clear regulations for future extraterrestrial endeavors.
In the ceaseless pursuit of knowledge, humanity has unveiled the veiled splendor of Mars, transcending mere curiosity to touch the fabric of its enigmatic terrain.
Each mission serves as a testament to the indomitable spirit of exploration, casting light on the profound mysteries cloaked within the Red Planet's embrace.
As stewards of this celestial odyssey, the collective gaze remains fixed on the horizon, yearning for the whispers of hidden truths yet to be deciphered.


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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that India’s 2nd lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to be launched in July 2019. The Chandrayaan-2’s lander will touch down near Moon’s south pole in September 2019. This mission holds so much significance for Indian and international space research which we will discuss in this article.
As India plans to launch ‘Gaganyaan’ and have a sustained human presence in space, the subject of manned missions to space becomes an important issue to discuss. With countries like Russia, the U.S, and few others successfully sending their manned space flights in space, India endeavors to join the group of these nations simultaneously. With the Indian space sector getting a boost and hopes held high, it is time that the various aspects of humans in space are looked at and prospects of such plans are discussed.


Space Shuttle Discovery’s Final Flight – a Turning Point?
The last flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery is due to take off today, with one, or at most two, more flights planned of other vehicles.
We are accustomed to think in terms of looking forward with wonder at what the future will hold. But the case of the space shuttle, the supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde and lunar landings, will have my children and grandchildren looking back in wonder. Realizing that I lived in a time when business people regularly crossed the Atlantic faster than the speed of sound and when astronauts landed on the moon and traveled into space and back in a reusable vehicle. The drivers for these achievements are a mix of national pride, competitiveness and co-operation.
It is a human instinct to want to build on and supersede the achievements of previous generations. But one of the challenges to sustainability is that we tend to do that in the most visible and measurable ways – further, faster, bigger, more often, more ambitious. Often this striving to supersede, requires more resources. Sometimes, as within the case of Concord, the dream simply wasn’t sustainable.
Just like the next person, distant exploration and speed excite me. My heart will certainly speed up and I will feel a pride in American ingenuity when I see Space Shuttle Discovery take off. Nevertheless, while I will be sad to see the end of the program, I hope that it could mark a turning point in the way we judge progress.
Instead of further, bigger, stronger and faster, I hope we can come together to celebrate success from achieving objectives that are just as technologically demanding, but measured by their contribution to sustainability rather than by speed, distance and size of the smoke plume!
post script 16 November 2010 – ironically, the space shuttle Discovery has not yet lifted off due to a series of technical issues that are still being addressed


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Join Alexander Geppert (NYU) at this public seminar as he identifies how the race for space required the development of a new vocabulary.
At the center of the so-called Space Age lay the promise of a collective future beyond planet Earth. Reaching for the stars and conquering the heavens by means of rocket technology, it was widely assumed, would result in a world-uniting planetary consciousness and herald a new epoch in human history. Based on a reading of Space Age dictionaries written in English, French, German, Italian and Russian and published between 1954 and 1988, this talk argues that the new language of space created as part of the so-called spaceflight revolution can be understood as a form of poetics that tried to reconcile technical requirements with the eschatological hopes deeply ingrained in European space thought and twentieth-century astroculture. At the same time the talk offers a pointed critique of many of the terms, concepts and analytical categories space and Cold War historians conventionally employ, from the ‘conquest of space’ to the ‘final frontier’, juxtaposing them with some of my own, including ‘astroculture’, the ‘post-Apollo paradox’, ‘planetization’ and others.
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Canadian airlines will soon give travellers the convenience of staying connected to the Internet while traveling across North America.
Air Canada and WestJet Airlines LTR announced earlier this month they will be offering in-flight Internet connectivity.
Air Canada intends to implement the service by installing WiFi services to 30 narrow body aircrafts by the end of this year, said Peter Fitzpatrick, media spokesperson for Air Canada Ontario.
This would make Air Canada the first Canadian airline to offer this type of service. They plan on having all 130 planes ready by the end of 2015, said Fitzpatrick.
WestJet said in a news release that it would be able to equip one plane by fall of this year to begin testing.
“The test plane will fly throughout our network, as will each aircraft as it is equipped,” said Robert Palmer, a spokesperson for WestJet.
Air Canada has been running a pilot project since 2006 with the help of Gogo Inflight. Two planes were equipped for testing and flew between Toronto, Montreal and L.A, said Fitzpatrick.
Canadian airlines had not been able to provide this service because the infrastructure had not been completed in Canada, said Fitzpatrick.
“The system we are using requires ground towers. So there wasn’t a network of those across the country,” he said.
Ground based cellular technology and satellite technology are the two types of equipment used for Internet connections during flights, said Steve Nolan spokesperson for Gogo.
“Gogo provides both of those technologies and the ground based cellular technology is proprietary to Gogo only. We call that ATG, or air to ground. Air to ground is only available in the United states and Canada,” he said.
Air Canada and WestJet said they would be investing in satellite technology for international flights in the future.
WestJet will be working with Panasonic to launch an entertainment package that includes live TV channels, movies, magazines and Wifi. WestJet will be using satellite technology in order to provide these services.
“I would definitely use it. Every year my family goes on a trip during reading week and it would be nice to get some work done on the flight. Or just chat with my friends on Facebook,” said Jonathan Franco a second year Business Student at Humber College.
Internet speeds will vary depending on the technology being used by the airline.
“The peak speeds for Gogo’s next generation air to ground technology is 10 Mbps (megabits per second). And then the technology that they’re looking at using down the road on international fleets is a satellite technology that is capable of delivering 70 Mbps,” said Nolan. In theory, a passenger could download a two gigabyte movie in just over four minutes.
Nolan said Gogo would be in charge of managing the network once the project is up and running.
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Saturday June 21 and Sunday June 22
Tinker Air Force Base will once again host the Star Spangled Salute Airshow
Come and enjoy daredevil aerobatics, historic recreations and breathtaking demonstrations of speed on Saturday June 21st –June 22nd at the 2014 Star Spangled Salute Air Show. Aerospace America is proud to partner with Eastern Oklahoma County Tourism Council and the City of Midwest City to support Tinker Air Force Base and this two-day, family-friendly event which is free and open to the public.
Activities will celebrate and recognize military personnel for their continued selfless sacrifice and duty to our country.
This year’s show will feature the US Air Force Thunderbirds, Wings of Blue Air Force Skydiving Team, multiple air acts and 33 civilian and military static and ground displays. There will also be a special children’s area complete with games and inflatable as well as live entertainment by Lower 40 Band and Jake Bowers and much more!
Star Spangled Salute is free and open to the public. Gates open at 9 am. Free parking and shuttles are available at the Tinker Aerospace Complex (TAC), formerly the GM plant, located on S.E. 74th Street between Air Depot and Douglas Boulevard.
You will not want to miss out on this fun filled two-day event that will not only leave you entertained, but will honor America’s service men and women for their patriotism!


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BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Shenzhou-13 crew has entered the Tianzhou-3 cargo craft to transfer the cargo, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Sunday.
After successfully stationing in China's space station core module Tianhe, the Shenzhou-13 crew opened the hatch of the Tianzhou-3 cargo craft and entered it at 9:50 a.m. (Beijing Time), the CMSA said.
The crew will also open the hatch of the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft. They will carry out cargo transfer and other related work as planned.
The Shenzhou-13 spaceship was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert Saturday.
After Shenzhou-13 successfully completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the core module Tianhe, the crew entered the core module. They will stay in orbit for six months, setting a new record for China's crewed space mission duration.
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On November 4, 2019, at 10:10am German time, astronauts grappled the Cygnus 12 supply ship with the International Space Station’s robotic arm. Almost four tons of equipment for the ISS were on board.
Among them, the coolant system for the alpha magnetic spectrometer (AMS-02) built at RWTH Aachen University.
The particle detector AMS-02 was brought to the International Space Station in May 2011 with the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour. Since then, the seven-ton spectrometer has been measuring cosmic ray particles with unprecedented precision and has already recorded 140 billion of them. These data provide new insight into the high-energy processes of the Milky Way and allow us to investigate questions about the nature of dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. More than 500 scientists from 16 countries worked on developing the 1.5 billion dollar experiment over more than 15 years.
The central element of AMS-02 is a silicon tracker that measures the trajectories of cosmic ray particles and is operated by a closed cooling circuit at a constant zero degree Celsius. The heat produced must be dissipated into space with a coolant system.
Three of the four redundant pumps in the coolant system, initially designed for three years of operation, have now failed after eight years.
Source: “New AMS Coolant System Arrived at the ISS”, RWTH Aachen University


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But most recently, it is home to engineered human heart tissues that launched into space aboard the Space-X CRS-27 to the International Space Station. Researchers are now using the expansive lab space, which includes microscopes, various measurements, tissue culture facilities and a lot of collaborative spaces, at Johns Hopkins All Children’s by processing and taking a deeper look into the heart tissue.
“This is a perfect example of our collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine, which is part of our mission,” says Laszlo Nagy, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the hospital’s Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research.
The study led by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, including doctoral student Devin Mair and Deok-Ho Kim, Ph.D., turned to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital for an additional collaboration to minimize the risks of compromising the tissue. They chose to drive the samples across the state of Florida from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, to St. Petersburg instead of flying them to Baltimore. Visiting student, João Carlos Remelho de Freitas from the Nagy laboratory assisted Mair in processing the samples.
“Our building is a very important asset,” says Nagy. “Our Baltimore colleagues are all amazed at the quality of the infrastructure and the sources and quality of people here at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. It’s very important to emphasize that buildings don’t do science — people do.”
Kim, his postdoctoral researcher Jonathan Tsui, and Mair previously sent heart tissue into space in March 2020. Those experiments, presented at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas 2022 Annual Meeting, showed that microgravity in space changed the cells’ mitochondria and the tissues’ ability to contract. This means it could be a potential indicator of cardiac problems.
“There are two real purposes of this research. The first half that NASA’s interested in is, ‘What are the effects of long-duration space flight on the human heart?’ because NASA hopes to establish a permanent moon base as well as trips to Mars, and we don’t currently understand what these impacts could have on the human heart,” Maier says. “The second part in the research is figuring out how we can prevent that, so we’re hoping that the drug panel that we selected prevents the damage we saw on our first space flight and will enable future space flights.”
A total of 96 tissues were sent up and treated with three FDA-approved medicines to the samples in efforts to prevent heart cell changes known or suspected to occur in those undertaking long-duration spaceflights.
“If we are able to treat it for microgravity, the same treatment could potentially be utilized for dosing the astronauts continuously during their space flight,” Maier says.
It is also possible that the study could inform how age-related cardiac problems are treated because the heart changes in space explorers mimic changes linked to heart muscle aging in general.
“It’s a very cool science, and just a nice embodiment of a collaborative effort which can result in significant findings,” Nagy says.


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A Glimpse Of The Past Through The Charles Lindbergh Collection - One of the most phenomenal results of Charles A. Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic was the impact upon his life and upon aviation itself. After his triumphal landing near Paris, Lindbergh said that his life was "never the same," prompting him to reflect on his life up to that pivotal moment in 1927. Born in Detroit, Michigan, the family soon took up residence in Little Falls, Minnesota, where he had fond childhood memories of the farm; fishing and hunting, the spell cast by the Mississippi River, riding his motorcycle, and learning to drive the Model T Ford, "Maria". He began a college education in engineering at the University of Wisconsin in 1920, but poor grades and lack of interest put an end to formal education. He learned to fly at a flying school in Nebraska in 1922, and soon was barnstorming across the West and South, surviving numerous "crashes." Lindbergh graduated from the Army Flying School at Kelly Field, in Texas, and received a Second Lieutenant commission in the Army Air Service Reserve at age 23. By 1926 he was flying a St. Louis - Chicago mail route for Robertson Aircraft Corp., giving him ample time and experience with demanding flying conditions to think about attempting to win the Orteig Prize. Being the first to fly the Atlantic nonstop would mean $25,000, and Lindbergh interested a number of backers from St. Louis to fund the idea. The plane was designed by Donald Hall and built by Ryan Airlines of San Diego, according to Lindbergh's specifications, for about $14,000. The leading contenders for the prize appeared to be Commander Richard Byrd, Chamberlin, and the French aviators Nungesser and Coli. Since Lindbergh's plane was just nearing completion, it would probably be too late to attempt the flight before all the others. Then, Nungesser and Coli left Paris flying west and disappeared without a trace. The others experienced crashes, damages, crew problems, and other glitches that opened the door for Lindbergh. Byrd, who was very close to making his own attempt, came to the hanger and graciously offered Lindbergh the use of his runway at Roosevelt Field, and access to his weather data. Lindbergh had been ready to take off on Monday, May 16, but encountered bad weather. On Thursday he decided to take in the theater. On the way Lindbergh called the Weather Bureau and learned the weather over the Atlantic had unexpectedly cleared up. The flight was on. With almost no sleep for 23 hours he took off on Friday, May 20, 1927 at 7:54 am from New York, and landed 33 1/2 hours later at Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris ... and his life changed forever. Two weeks later Chamberlin flew nonstop, landing in Germany. President Coolidge ordered the USS Memphis to pick up Lindbergh and his plane. Shortly after his return he visited Orville Wright in Dayton and later gave Henry Ford his first airplane ride. He arranged funding for Robert Goddard's pioneering rocket experiments and also served with Hap Arnold to reorganize the Strategic Air Command. He conducted tests at the Mayo Clinic on the physical demands of flying and also was promoted by Ike to Brigadier General. His actual plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, today is preserved at the Smithsonian Institution, and still provides untold inspiration to all who view it. Lindbergh's flying accomplishments promoted and refined the aviation world, and although he never expected it, his turned out to be a truly extraordinary life. In the end he died as he wished ... in Maui, Hawaii. Charles A. Lindbergh "Ten years spent as a pilot on an airplane is in value worth more than an ordinary lifetime."


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SpaceX She has some nice before and after photos for the 10th launch of one of her Falcon 9 rockets, thanks to a satisfied customer.
A Falcon 9 successfully 105 satellites were delivered into orbit Thursday (January 13), including 44 “SuperDove” cubes for Planet, the San Francisco-based company that operates the world’s largest collection of Earth observation satellites.
The mission, called Transporter-3, was the tenth launch of the first stage of Falcon 9 – and its tenth landing, as well. About nine minutes after take off from Florida Cape Canaveral Space Station, the booster reached a soft landing a few miles from the launch pad, at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1.
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And just for fun – Planet SkySat captured a video today of the first phase of @SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster back on Earth after its 10th flight into space! pic.twitter.com/IWr1UQdLyzJanuary 14, 2022
Planet was able to capture images from space of the Falcon 9 before and after the flight using SkySats, a spacecraft the size of a small refrigerator capable of resolving features as small as 20 inches (50 cm) on Earth’s surface. (SuperDoves have a resolution of about 10 feet, or 3 meters, per pixel.)
A single SkySat image shows a Transporter 3 Falcon 9 standing at attention at Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral on Wednesday (January 12), a day before liftoff. And Thursday is a planet Posted on Twitter SkySat video of the first stage of Falcon 9 shortly after it touched down at Landing Zone 1.
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AS9100 standards are complete with the release of the final standards document in the trio, the AS9104. The AS9104 standard is made up of three standards: AS9104-1, AS9104-2, and AS9104-3. This newest addition, combined with the previous AS9100:2009 and AS9101:2009, comprise the complete international quality management system standards for the aerospace industry. Here are answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the AS9100 Standards.
What is AS9100?
The complete name for the AS9100 Standards is, “Quality Management Systems – Requirements for Aviation, Space, and Defense Organizations.” The AS9100 Standards are international standards for quality management to be used by organizations that design, develop, or service the aviation, space, and defense industry.
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The company is hoping to extract and refine metals from deep space, and sees this as a key part of its business model. AstroForge is one of a number of companies that are looking to capitalize on the untapped resources of space, and it will be interesting to see how its operations develop over the coming months and years.
AstroForge's first launch, scheduled for April 2023, will test the company's technique for refining platinum from a sample of asteroid-like material. The second launch, planned for October, will be used to scout for an asteroid near Earth that could be mined for resources.
AstroForge's missions are part of its goal to refine platinum-group metals from asteroids, with the aim of reducing the cost of mining these metals. It also hopes to reduce the massive amount of carbon dioxide emissions that come from mining rare Earth elements on Earth, Chief Executive Officer Matthew Gialich said in an interview.
"We do our refining on site, so we are refining on the asteroid itself," said Gialich. "We are not bringing back the material back to Earth to do refining. A lot of the waste you see from these mines is in the process of refinement."
AstroForge, a company based in Huntington Beach, California, came out of stealth mode in May of last year when it announced that it had raised $13 million in seed funding. The company claims that the October mission will be the first commercial deep-space flight outside of the gravity well of Earth, with the exception of one previous example.
Gialich noted that the only other example of a private company launching a vehicle into deep space is Elon Musk's Tesla, which was launched by SpaceX's Falcon Heavy in 2018. However, he stressed that this should not be considered a true mission since Musk simply launched the Tesla and then forgot about it.
AstroForge plans to launch a small standardized satellite into low-Earth orbit as one of many payloads on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare mission.
The company plans to launch its second craft in October to scout out a previously identified near-Earth asteroid for a future mining mission. The satellite will be transported by a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. rocket carrying a lunar lander from another startup, Intuitive Machines. This will be the second mission to the moon by Intuitive Machines; its first is set to launch as early as the first quarter of this year.
AstroForge plans to use the Intuitive Machines flight's deep-space destination by sending its own vehicle into lunar orbit. From there, AstroForge's 100-kilogram spacecraft will leave to head for a target asteroid. The company is not announcing the target yet and says it probably won't until they're done mining the asteroid.
AstroForge's entry into the space industry comes a few years after the collapse of the asteroid mining boom. Two of the larger companies in the field, Planetary Resources Inc. and Deep Space Industries Inc., formed roughly a decade ago with the goal of mining asteroids. However, neither company actually visited any asteroids, and both eventually ran into financial difficulties. Both companies were eventually acquired and rerouted to other endeavors.
The company will also have to work hard to make its business successful. The most that has ever been collected from an asteroid at one time is 250 grams from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which is currently on its way back to Earth.
Gialich said AstroForge had learned lessons from the two companies’ failures. He said he’d spoken with Daniel Faber, the former CEO of Deep Space Industries, and that AstroForge was working with advisers from Planetary Resources to discuss how to make asteroid mining work and to select asteroids for mining.
"I believe that the biggest difference between us and those two companies is the progress we've made in the last 10-15 years," said Gialich. "We can now buy a rideshare mission to the moon."
AstroForge plans to outsource most of the infrastructure surrounding its missions. For instance, a separate company, OrbAstro, will build its spacecraft, while AstroForge will rely on companies like SpaceX for launch. AstroForge's primary focus is on developing in-space refining technology and mapping out mission trajectories, Gialich said.
Gialich said that he wants to bring the cost of mining platinum metals down to $50 an ounce, which is significantly lower than the current price of $975 an ounce. He attributes this potential decrease in price not to any unique mining technology that his company possesses, but rather to the fact that they will be mining in an area where the concentration of platinum metals is much higher than any other known ore deposit on Earth. Consequently, this makes the economic case for his company much stronger.
The company recently published a paper in coordination with the Colorado School of Mines highlighting the possible concentration of metals from asteroids that are available. The paper discusses the potential for mining these metals and how they could be used in various industries.
AstroForge plans to launch a third mission to touch down on the asteroid they’ve scouted, followed by a fourth mission that will actually attempt to land on the asteroid, extract and refine its metals, and then return to Earth if all goes well with the first two flights.
"Although we're hoping for a February 2025 launch, we know that space is unpredictable and there are always risks involved," said Gialich.
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Gulfstream has released a new app called PlaneBook for the iPad. PlaneBook is an electronic document management system, a handy resource for pilots. The app provides pilots easy and quick access to critical flight information and air-craft specific documents, such as the Airplane Flight Manual, Operating Manual, pilot checklist and Quick Reference Handbook.
The PlanBook app also allows pilots to create and add their own content, including checklists, standard operating procedures and other reference materials. In addition, instructional videos for each of Gulfstream’s aircraft have also been included. The Gulfstream PlaneBook App is available now from the Apple App Store.
Gulfstream has announced that it will resume production on the ultra-long-range G650, following a crash last month involving a G650 flight-test aircraft that killed four people and led to the company suspending flight testing. The company says they’re working hard with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to resume the required flight-test activities and is confident that the aircraft will be on track for its 2012 entry.
Gulfstream hit a significant milestone in the certification program of their new aircraft, the G650. According to the press release, the fifth and final flight-test aircraft hit the air on January 24, 2011. All five aircraft apart of the flight-test campaign have logged more than 1,100 hours in the program and have passed a broad number of tests. The company is one step closer to public release and certification is right on track for 2011 with first deliveries in 2012.
Gulfstream recently set a new speed record for the Gulfstream G450 business jet for flying from Tokyo to Hong Kong. The aircraft took off at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport at 10:50 am. local time on June 7, 2010. It flew 1,694 nautical miles at an average cruise speed of Mach 0.85, landing 3 hours and 58 minutes later at 1:48 p.m. local time at Hong Kong International Airport.
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has seen a lot on the Red Planet since it sent its first image back to Earth just over a year ago. Ingenuity has now set its sights on wreckage and debris from the Perseverance rover’s successful landing on Mars. Ingenuity’s new photos could still help inform future missions to Mars.
When the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, it was parachuted to the surface while protected by a backshell. This shell helped ensure a safe landing but was destroyed in the process. Ingenuity has captured detailed images of Perseverance’s backshell, supersonic parachute and associated debris.
‘Perseverance had the best-documented Mars landing in history, with cameras showing everything from parachute inflation to touchdown,’ said Ian Clark of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Clark was a Perseverance systems engineer and is now a Mars Sample Return ascent phase lead. ‘But Ingenuity’s images offer a different vantage point. If they either reinforce that our systems worked as we think they worked or provide even one dataset of engineering information we can use for Mars Sample Return planning, it will be amazing. And if not, the pictures are still phenomenal and inspiring.’
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BOEING'S 787 DREAMLINER is a flagship for our infant simulation age. During the research and design of the older 767, launched in the late 1970s, Boeing conducted costly wind-tunnel tests on more than 50 possible wing designs. The Dreamliner, designed and flown in silico, needed only a dozen. Simulation has dramatically reduced the need for wind tunnel and full flight testing and enabled engineers to explore the most complex flows.
Like Sandia, economic considerations and physical insight have motivated Boeing's swift development of its simulation capability over the past 30 years. With simulation, new aircraft are designed and tested at rates impossible using only physical experiments.
Fletcher lists 5 main advantages of computational over experimental fluid dynamics: (1) lead time in design and development is significantly reduced; (2) simulation can simulate flow conditions not reproducible in experimental model tests; (3) simulation provides more detailed and comprehensive information; (4) simulation is increasingly more cost effective than wind-tunnel testing; (5) simulation produces a lower energy consumption. Adapting these to pharmaceutics: (1) computer simulation reduces research and development lead-times; (2) simulation can investigate mechanisms not easily reproducible in experimental models; (3) simulation provides more detailed and comprehensive information; (4) simulation reduces all experimental costs.
In 1975, Chapman, Mark and Pirtle laid down three practical aspirations for simulation in aerospace, namely to provide flow simulations that are impossible to produce using wind tunnel tests or other experiments, to cut the time and cost of building flow simulations and to provide more accurate flight simulations than wind tunnels can. We're not quite there yet, but the Dreamliner is evidence that these aspirations are becoming reality. In 2006 we can look forward, without romance, to a time when in silico simulations of biological processes will supersede in vivo experiments.
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The fickle economic situation has affected the aerospace industry a great deal. It has also affected the relationship between aerospace equipment manufacturers and their suppliers.
The fact is that OEMs and suppliers depend on each other for professional success. To ensure that both sides can continue to benefit professionally, they had to rethink of the way in which they do business.
Solutions to benefit OEMs and Suppliers
The first point that was realized was that OEMs could no longer simply give an order to a supplier and he would provide the materials needed. With the advent of new airlines and better technology, there was a need to find the best sources for the manufacturing processes. This led the OEMs and suppliers to work in coherence to understand the materials that would work best in creating new solutions with wire harnesses that would meet the current industry demands.
Earlier, to save on costs and time, a general design guideline was used by OEMs for designing and manufacturing wire harnesses. What would happen is that OEMs would ask the wire harnesses manufacturers to create a particular design. Today, more emphasis is being taken by the OEM to create wire harness designs that would suit their systems exclusively. So when wire harnesses manufacturers work with OEMs today, they are given a complete design, which they can simply manufacture according to the specifications provided by the OEM.
Servicing and Repair
In order to protect their designs and solutions, most aircraft manufacturers would conduct all the design and manufacturing processes in-house. The economic crisis made them realize that in-house servicing and repair is leading to extremely high expenses.
To cut down on expenses and staff, aircraft manufacturers started giving their wire harness servicing requirements to outside contractors. Aerospace manufacturers would also send out minor design changes to be performed by the contractors. However, the aircraft manufacturers would first finalize all the guidelines and specifications in-house. This gave them monopoly over the designs they were creating while they would save on costs thanks to outsourced manufacturing.
For testing aerospace wire harnesses and manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers could no longer depend on large, sophisticated equipment. This led to very high costs in terms of testing. OEMs began to work with computerized equipment manufacturers, who could design smaller sized portable equipment for wire harness testing. Technicians in the aerospace industry have found this new equipment to be a huge boon for their work. Equipment manufacturers are now working with OEMs to design and build small testing equipment that will have the same capabilities as the large testing equipment used by OEMs earlier.


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Kayser space cellular agriculture in space feasibility study
Kayser Space Ltd is an SME primarily engaged in the design and manufacture of hardware supporting scientific and
technological research in space, its full certification to the space standards and the support to mission planning and operations. Their
mission is to incubate ideas, propose opportunities, assess the feasibility of scientific investigations and deliver space-worthy
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For space missions, especially long terms ones, size, weight and other constraints are such that meeting the protein
needs of astronauts is a big challenge. Future long duration space missions (years rather than days, to places such as Mars) will need
solutions for producing food in-situ. Conventional fresh meat production in space is not viable, hence cellular agriculture represents a
The purpose of Kayser Space Ltd’s project was therefore to establish the feasibility of a cellular agriculture system
(in this case cultivated meat), taking into account the space environment, current bioreactor technologies and nutritional
Specifically, the project aims were as follows:
- Assess the capability of cellular agriculture for cultivated meat production
- Frame this capability in the context of sustainability, food security and human health safety
- Assess resources needed, energy balance and potential for a closed loop system
- Identify and evaluate bioreactor technology best suited for utilisation in space
The project was funded by The European Space Agency and led by Kayser Space Ltd. Cellular Agriculture Ltd – the first
UK startup in the cultured protein field – were partners whose role was to design the bioreactor for the cell culturing.
Our role was to advise on the nutritional, food safety and HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) system
elements. Our first task was to evaluate various protein sources – of which cultivated meat was one – to assess their suitability for the
challenge at hand. We assessed a number of options, and cultivated meat was found to be the best suited to the task due to palatability
(important for astronaut morale) and amino acid profile (with respect to the 11 essential amino acids that we need our diets to provide).
The project team were able to assess the viability of a space-based bioreactor for producing cultivated meat capable
of providing the nutritional protein requirements of a crew on a long duration space mission.
It is considered highly feasible that the project’s bioreactor could be adapted (with limited modification) as a
cellular agriculture system for use in space.
The work has brought the idea of a ‘closed loop’ life support for deep space missions closer to reality.
The expertise on nutrition and knowledge of the food industry that Campden BRI brought to the UK consortium working
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Ramón Nartallo, Programme Manager at Kayser Space Ltd
The technology is being taken forward to the next phase of study. There have been a number of areas identified for
further research, including how to generate raw materials onboard and how to recycle waste.
All partners want the collaboration to continue, and we have an approximate timeline mapped out for future work until
at least 2045. We need to work together to address the science and engineering questions that still remain, and test the potential
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Whatever you are facing, whether it is unexpected food safety challenges, exploring new and emerging process
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This is beneficial to the aircraft's overall performance because it increases the aircraft's overall lift capabilities, whereas a forward center of gravity has a detrimental effect on the aircraft's performance. However, a few aircraft with a nose-down en route attitude would require a forward center of gravity position. How does a forward center of gravity affect the stall speed, and why? A center of gTavity forward of the center of pressure will cause a higher stall speed. This is so because a forward center of gTavity would cause a natural nose-down attitude below the required en route cruise attitude for best performance.
Aileron control therefore is employed because the roll cycle is of sufficient duration to allow the pilot to apply the correct opposite aileron control. A severe Dutch roll may require two or three aileron inputs to dampen the oscillation gradually. What prevents Dutch roll? Yaw dampers prevent Dutch roll on swept-wing aircraft. A basic reason for the Dutch-rolling tendency of an aircraft (apart from the wing sweep, of course) is the lack of effective fin and rudder area to stop it. The smaller fin and rudder area is a design compromise that makes the aircraft spirally stable to a degree.
What is lateral stability? Lateral stability is the tendency for an aircraft to return to a laterally level position around the longitudinal axis on release of the ailerons in a sideslip. There are two principal features that make an aircraft naturally laterally stable, namely, 1. Wing dihedral. The airflow due to a sideslip causes an increase in the angle of attack (lift) on the lower (leading) wing and a decrease in angle of attack on the raised wing because of the dihedral angle. The lower wing thus produces an increase in lift because of the increased angle of attack, and the raised wing produces less lift.


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We have observed a continuous improvement in aviation safety in the past ten years. The accident rate is currently at a historic low: one for every 4.4 million flights. However, 70% of the time, these aviation accidents are caused by human error.
How can we help aircraft pilots cope with excessive stress during special or difficult phases of flight? How can we understand the irrational decisions taken by crews and their apparent disregard of various alarms when unexpected situations occur? Accident analysis reveals that the complexity of modern transportation aircraft can overwhelm the most experienced crews when something goes wrong. The aim of the research led by Professor Dehais, holder of the AXA-ISAE Chair of Neuroergonomics for aviation safety, is to discover the underlying neural mechanisms of human error that cause pilots to persist in irrational decision-making.
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7:00 PM Beauty and the Beast - SHS
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Davis Youth Symphony Spring Concert
Astronaut to inspire students
Former space shuttle astronaut Brian Duffy will talk to about 2,200 elementary school children during two presentations Thursday, April 23 at the Davis High auditorium. He will speak about his four shuttle missions at 9:30 a.m. and again at noon, said Donnalee Trease. Trease teaches sixth-grade at Creekside Elementary and coordinates the district’s Space/STEM Week activities.
ROTC students will perform a flag ceremony and former “The Voice” contestant Tanner Linford, a Davis High student, will sing the national anthem before Duffy’s talk.
Duffy is Orbital ATK’s vice president of Johnson Space Center exploration programs. Before that, he was in leadership roles at Lockheed Martin. He had a 16-year career with NASA, and was mission commander on two of his four space shuttle missions, logging in more than 977 hours in space. He has logged in about 5,000 hours of flight time in more than 25 different aircraft.
In other events, Creekside students will learn about drones around 11:30-1 p.m. on Monday, April 20. Volunteers from the Hill Aerospace Museum will visit with students from about 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 to talk about the science behind flight.
Creekside will also hold its rocket launch, weather permitting, at 9:15 a.m. Friday, April 24.
In addition, students are being challenged to build a robot with 15 household items or less. Robots will be on display Friday.
For more information, contact Trease at 801-402-3650.


There is no age limit to achieving your dreams! No matter how big or small, you are the master of your destiny! When it comes to changing the face of pilots, 17-year-old high school student Christopher Ballinger is doing that. He is among the youngest Black pilots in the country, thanks to an Air Force JROTC Flight Academy Program.
According to Fox 5, Chris confirmed he’s licensed to fly any single-engine land plane, which is the first step in becoming a pilot. Christopher participated in an eight-week Flight Academy program at Walla Walla University in Washington State. According to the university’s website, they offer three aviation degree options. In the program, students will learn how to fly, operate safely, and interact in the world of professional aviation.
In addition, students will be at the controls and learn firsthand the challenges and rewards of operating aircraft. Christopher, a rising senior at Sidwell Friends School, has a bright future. The teen plans to apply to the Air Force Academy after graduation. He offered some advice for younger students interested in following in his footsteps, saying to keep an open mind about all opportunities that present themselves!
Black people in the airline industry have been all over the news lately. As we previously reported, an American Airlines flight recently made history while celebrating the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license. For the first time in the airline carrier’s 96-year existence, everyone involved, from the ramp to the gate, the cockpit, and the cabin, were all Black women!
The great-niece of Bessie Coleman, Gigi Coleman, spoke about her aunt’s legacy explaining, “My great-aunt received her license two years before Amelia Earhart. She wasn’t in the history books. No one knew about her.”
Well, everyone knows about Bessie now!
Roommates never stop dreaming and reaching for the stars!


Drones are becoming the next big thing in filmmaking, allowing filmmakers to get access to never before charted territories. But before you run out and by a drone make sure you know the laws and regulations that come along with operating a drone.
Just a few months ago the FAA instated new regulations for operating “unmanned aircraft systems”. Among the updates, regulations include flying a drone within 5 miles of an airport or over a sporting event in prohibited and fines for breaking these laws can add up to $250,000 and 3 years in prison!
So if you are a drone cinematographer keep in mind these simple tips to make sure you are complying with the latest laws and regulations.
Federal Aviation Administration Requirements
- All drone owners must be registered with the FAA before they can fly, registrants must provide their name, home address and email address.
- Flying unregistered is subject to civil penalties of up to $27,500 and criminal penalties of up to $250,000 and 3 years in prison.
- Each drone must display its unique registration number issued by the FAA
- You drone cannot weigh more than 55 pounds
Where you cannot fly
- National parks
- Military bases
- Stadiums & sporting events
- Emergency response efforts
- Airspace higher than 400 feet
- Within 25 feet of another person
- Within 5 miles of airport
Special Rules for Professional Videographers
- Must apply for a 333 exemption with the FAA & register yourself as a drone operator
- File this exemption 120 days prior to filming


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Robert’s no stranger to planes: for 40 years, he’s restored old aircraft at his local museum and is building a replica Spitfire fuselage in his garage. He had always wanted to fly, but it was only when nearing retirement that he had the time and money to learn. Unfortunately, he found that the older you are, the longer it takes; but he’s now qualified to fly 2,000 feet over Scotland’s fantastic landscape -making sure to avoid airliners and military aircraft! Like most Brits, he’s fascinated by the weather, but flying makes him more keenly aware of wind speed and direction -which we think is a very useful skill for launching paper airplanes too. His next goal is to fly to Orkney to see the town of his birth from the air.


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Apollo moon landing hoax!
20 June 2007
Was it an accident? Did they realize what they were doing? Or are some NASA employees getting tired of supporting the lies?
|The image above is at the NASA site, Astronomy Picture of the Day,
for tomorrow, 21 June 2007:
It is a drawing of what the Earth's sky would look like during the daytime if the atmosphere did not scatter sunlight.
NASA admits that even with the sun shining, the stars would be visible.
|Eric Hufschmid's Science Challenge asked if Apollo astronauts
would be able to see stars while they were on the moon:
And would astronauts see stars as they traveled to and from the moon? Would astronauts in the space shuttle be able to see stars?
NASA has been claiming for decades that it is nearly impossible for astronauts to see stars, but now the Astronomy Picture of the Day admits that without an atmosphere, we would see stars even when the sun was shining.
Have you seen the Apollo press conference when Neil Armstrong and Mike
Collins said they didn't see stars? The video is on this page:
What is going on?
The man who drew the picture is Jerry Lodriguss. He is a professional
photographer, and his website is full of photographs of the universe:
In Hufschmid's more detailed PDF file about the Apollo moon landing
hoax, he mentioned this particular man on page 15:
Hufschmid sent him an e-mail a couple years ago to "Get a clue!" Has Jerry Lodriguss finally figured out that the Apollo moon landing was a hoax? Or has he known it was a hoax for many years?
Why would NASA put this on their website and admit that stars would be seen during daytime when there is no atmosphere to scatter the sunlight?
Is it possible that people are starting to rebel against the corruption? Is it possible that people are tired of maintaining the Apollo moon landing hoax? Are American men finally behaving like men rather than frightened children?
Or didn't NASA realize what they were doing when they put this page
on their site? Will this particular page be deleted as soon as they realize
what they just did? Will they frantically struggle to devise a flimsy excuse
to explain this page?
NASA to crash a probe into moon in 2008
They call it LCROSS. NASA wants to analyze the moon to
see if there is water on it. Why don't
they just analyze the hundreds of kilograms
that they claim the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon? NASA's
excuse is that the astronauts only took samples near the surface! KQED
has a video describing the LCROSS program:
Colaprete is the LCROSS "Principal Investigator". Does he and other people
at NASA actually believe that they sent people to the moon? Or do they
all realize that NASA is just a big hoax?
What has NASA done in their decades of existence besides lie to us and
waste our money? Are the two Mars rovers really on Mars? Or are they in
an Australian desert?
Who wants to become an astronaut?
A lot of people might like to be an astronaut, but it requires keeping secret about NASA's many crimes. For example, have you noticed that none of the astronauts in the space station ever mention what the stars look like? Or what Mars looks like?
How about this report that claims the son of astronaut Virgil Grissom
accuses NASA of murdering his father:
NASA cannot let an honest person become an astronaut. The only people they allow to be astronauts are people with psychotic obsessions to become astronauts. These mentally ill people will keep the secrets because they desperately want to be an astronaut.
In other words, the astronauts are lunatics. This is why they exhibit so much psychotic behavior.


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Read this book! Tremendous writing by a truly remarkable man. Scott Kelly spent 342 consecutive days in space onboard the International Space Station. This book really gives the reader a sense of how hard it is to be an astronaut. The title captures it all. I could only imagine how amazing it would be to look at the earth from space. What an experience!
With the data collected from this amount of time in space, we hope to have a better understanding of what future astronauts will face on a mission to Mars. With Scott Kelly’s twin brother here on earth, scientists were able to compare the two men and the effect of space on the human body.
Fantastic book for the person like me with a fascination for space. At 365 pages, the chapters alternate between his past and becoming an astronaut and his time on the International Space Station. With vivid and humorous storytelling abilities, you will quickly find yourself becoming immersed in the story.
This book makes you really appreciate what these brave men & women go through in order to advance our knowledge of the Cosmos. It is a true testament to the spirit, drive and unrelenting human condition to push ourselves past our comfort zone.
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Microbe Talk: June 2016
Posted on June 20, 2016 by Benjamin Thompson
On 6 July, the spacecraft Soyuz MS-01 is scheduled to blast-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, heading for the International Space Station (ISS). On board, will be Dr Kate Rubins, who, along with Anatoli Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi, will be part of the 48th expedition to the ISS, due to return in November this year.
Does a pipette work in space? with NASA Astronaut DR Kate Rubins
Before training with NASA, Kate worked as a microbiologist, most recently at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where she worked on emerging viruses such as the Ebola and Lassa viruses.
For this month’s podcast, we caught up with Kate as she prepared for her mission, and chatted about the experiments she’ll be undertaking in space, what it’s like to train to be an astronaut, and whether a pipette works in microgravity…
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