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Hard. not only did we lose the test pilot, in 2014 but in 2007 three employees of scale composites died when a rocket blew up on a test stand in mohave. so there is a lot of risk involved in space. any time you go to space and achieve speeds approaching 3,000 miles an hour as sir richard will do on sunday if all goes well, youre taking a risk. >> and miles, im thinking about this from a historical perspective, the first space raceushing in a new era of scientificenoyvation. how does this new com...

NASAs George C. Marshall Space Flight Center has more than six decades of history designing, building and testing a storied series of rockets, rocket engines and instruments to fly in space. The center’s accomplishments include the Redstone rocket used to launch Project Mercury, the Saturn rockets for the Apollo program, the Skylab space station, and the Hubble Space Telescope. Marshall is located on the grounds of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a city in northern Alabama about...

NASA, Boeing looking to begin SLS Exploration Upper Stage manufacturing in 2021 March 4, 2021 Manufacturing and assembly development work for the Space Launch System (SLS) Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) is starting to ramp up at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans. NASA’s SLS Program and EUS prime contractor Boeing are preparing to begin construction of the test and flight articles that will be needed to certify and fly the new upper stage’s first launch. A structural test art...

(Courtesy photo) Dec. 12, 1955: First prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell. A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the hull, or air cushion, that is slightly above atmospheric pressure. The pressure difference between the higher pressure air below the hull and lower pressure ambie...

International arms control eaties and so forth. >> its actually even less specific. >> its less. now, the presidents bet is that none of that matters. m that they builtis that the up some trust and that hes doing this from the t down now and that all previous presidents who tried to do it from the bottom up. maybe hes right. we dont know, but that means that mike pompeo, the secretary of state is now about to go down the line that john kerry spent two or three years doing with the iranians, whic...

>> this is not quid pro quo or anything else. >> we want people to respect the national anthem and test stand. >> i stand on the shoulders of heroin, who never fought public acclaim. >> i can attest that one can be chief justice without being a big wheel of any kind. >> even tattoos. at >> but you feel compelled to say, mr. president, you have to change your phone, its a security risk. when you at least do that for america? >> i had to jump a wall to be here. >> if you cant beat them, join them....