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In a rush to get to the Oregon coast, we often overlook the journey itself. Those of us who drive to the ocean via Oregon 18, the highway that runs from Dundee to Lincoln City, have a wealth of options for side-of-the-road shops and attractions that get missed in our hurry to get to where we’re going. These are more than just places to stretch your legs – they’re local farms and vineyards, ...

Type keyword(s) to search The Engineering History of Human Flight For more than a century, humans have soared through the skies—heres how we did it. By Walter J. Boyne and Alex Hollings May 23, 2021 Keith Ferris When Orville and Wilbur Wright flew at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, they ignited the aeronautical equivalent of the Big Bang. Although it was not apparent at the time, their awkward-looking Flyer contained all of the elements of modern flight—including the wi...

Perhaps we’re overly cautious, but that ominous-sounding tuba’s two-note E, F oscillation can mean only one thing: The Great White COVID is still lurking in the shallows.

Signed Apollo 17 lunar surface manifest to touch down at Heritage Auctions Apollo 17 Lunar Module Flown and Used "Lunar Surface Manifest" for the Moon Rocks Gathered on the Mission. DALLAS, TX .- A signed Lunar Surface Manifest detailing the collection of moon rocks, one of which now sits on the desk of President Joe Biden, will touch down in a new collection when it is sold in Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction May 21-22. An Apollo 17 Lunar Module Flown and Used "Lunar Surface Manifes...

AP Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to fly in a powered plane in 1910, after he had left office. In the century since then, the presidential aircraft has evolved into one of the sophisticated planes in the air. The commander-in-chief is more than just an American leader, the office is of global importance. As the "Leader of the Free World," the American president has to be able to travel all over the US and around the world — safely. So of course, th...

May 11, 2021 NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS via AP In this image taken by the Mars Perseverance rover and made available by NASA, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, top right near the horizon, flies over the surface of the planet on Friday, April 30, 2021. Ingenuity made its fourth flight Friday afternoon, traveling 872 feet (266 meter) at a height of 16 feet (5 meters) for two minutes — considerably farther and longer than before. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — First came the amazing pictures, the...

5 for 50: 5 Polymers that are out of this world NASA image From the Mercury Program to Mars, Apollo to Artemis, the Space Shuttle to SpaceX, elastomers, in all their earthly iterations, have found a home in air and space. Even the 19th-century origins of rubber, where vulcanization finds its etymology in the term Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, demonstrate that the compound perhaps always had aspirations beyond terra firma. Indeed, rubber, plastics, silicones and every polymer in between have ma...

TravelAwaits May.10.2021 It might seem implausible today, but Cold War dramas played out all across the hot desert of Arizona in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. And the stakes couldn’t have been higher. For the United States Air Force personnel who manned top-secret sites like the Titan II missile site near Green Valley, Arizona, nuclear war was a possible outcome. Of course, it never came to that, and the disarmed nuclear missile site south of Tucson now serves as a museum and National Historic...

First came the amazing pictures, then the video. Now NASA is sharing sounds of its little helicopter humming ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — First came the amazing pictures, then the video. Now NASA is sharing sounds of its little helicopter humming through the thin Martian air. - The National Herald