Cologne Bonn to play host to NASA’s SOFIA as it begins science observations
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5th February 2021
Conducted over a six week period, researchers hope to find the answers to fundamental questions in astronomy
SOFIA – NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – is set to conduct its very first series of science observations from Germany between February and March of this year.
The specially modified Boeing 747SP touched down at the airport yesterday (February 4) from Hamburg where it had been undergoing a heavy maintenance C check at Lufthansa Technik’s facility in Hamburg, since September last year.
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Video Featuring Neil Armstrong Explains Process Of Landing And Taking First Step On Moon
A recent YouTube video featuring Neil Armstrong, 1st man to land on the moon, explained the process of landing and taking the first step on the lunar surface.
A recent YouTube video featuring Neil Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon, explained the process of landing and taking the first step on the lunar surface. YouTuber and American engineer Destin Sandlin, who runs the channel ‘Smart Every Day’, explained how NASA trained its astronauts to land on the Moon when it sent its Apollo missions that landed a total twelve astronauts from 1969 to 1972 in a series of Apollo missions numbering up to Apollo 17. The clip uploaded on January 31 also features a lecture delivered by Neil Armstrong back in 2007 in front of Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
NASA Faces $1.9 Billion Bill to Clean up Contaminated Sites Across the U.S.
On 1/21/21 at 10:50 AM EST
NASA faces a bill of about $1.9 billion to clean up its sites across the U.S, a report by government auditors has found.
The space agency faces soaring costs for the restoration of former sites, with the potential costs having increased by 45 percent since 2014, according to the Government Accountability Office report published last Friday.
Environmental cleanups could cost $1.9 billion as of fiscal year 2020, a rise of about $180 million from 2019 and a rise of $724 million from 2014.
The bulk of those predicted costs, or environmental liabilities, comes from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory located about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles that played a key role in the Apollo and space shuttle programs.
By Josie Garthwaite
Record-setting wildfires torched huge swaths of western states in 2020. They blotted out the sun, produced hazardous air pollution in cities far from the blazes and sent toxic smoke wafting clear across the country and beyond. Such far-reaching effects are no longer aberrations, Stanford scholars write in research published Jan. 12 in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Wildfire smoke shrouded the San Francisco Bay Area and blocked sunlight on Sept. 9, 2020. (Image credit: Aaron Maizlish / Flickr Creative Commons)
The number of homes at direct risk from wildfires – and the investment in firefighting resources to protect them – is on the rise. Nearly 50 million homes in the U.S. now sit in the wildland-urban interface where houses are close to forests and highly combustible vegetation, according to the authors, led by Marshall Burke, an associate professor of Earth system science in Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Nasa s all-electric and supersonic planes aiming to take flight in 2021
6 Jan 20216 January 2021
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Not only has Nasa been busy announcing its space projects for the year ahead, but has updated us on progress of its projects for use here on Earth.
Due to its space adventures, Nasa is involved in some pretty hi-tech engineering designing kit for rockets, satellites and space stations but it also works with other companies on similar design breakthroughs.
Two of the many areas it works in are making electric planes a more common reality and building supersonic aircraft to make journeys faster.