Up until now, SpaceX rockets have always landed by deploying legs around the rocket as it returned to earth. If new remarks from Elon Musk are accurate, the company wants to get rid of that method to save weight. Future spacecraft may not sport legs at all.
The Super Heavy launch vehicle is the first-stage launcher for the second-stage craft known as Starship. Super Heavy will still use its engines to control its descent, similar to the current Falcon 9, but it will use its grid fins to control orientation in flight.
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Most Interesting People 2021: Marla Perez-Davis
Why She’s Interesting: Perez-Davis is a pioneer. Named the director of NASA Glenn Research Center last January, she oversees as many as 3,300 employees between Cleveland’s Lewis Field station and Plum Brook Station in Sandusky. Since taking on the position, she has been involved in nearly every step of the Artemis program, which will send the first woman to the moon in 2024.
Encyclopedic Inspiration: Perez-Davis grew up in Adjuntas, a small mountainside coffee-farming municipality in Puerto Rico. Around the age of 13, Perez-Davis looked up “engineer” in an encyclopedia and the definition captivated her. “At that point in time, engineering was not seen as a woman’s job, but that’s what I really wanted.”
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KYOTO -- Battery makers worldwide are fighting for a piece of the pie in the lucrative electric vehicle market, spending huge sums on factories.
But GS Yuasa, a Japanese battery manufacturer that goes back more than a century, is going its own way. The Kyoto-based company develops power cells that can withstand extreme environments, from under the ocean to outer space.
Betting on a coming era of ubiquitous battery power, GS Yuasa has gone back to its creed: "Performance is the source of competitiveness."
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New Woodstock, NY Free Library presents Turtle Dance Music
The New Woodstock Free Library will offer a free six-week series of virtual concerts for children beginning Friday, Jan. 15 in partnership with Turtle Dance Music. These shows will be presented at 3 p.m. on Zoom and will feature a different educational theme each week.
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Space! The Cosmos For Kids is a fun "Carl-Sagan-dance-party." Each song includes dancing, music technology and information about our solar system to a thumping beat. Audience members will meet aliens from outer space, travel through black holes, discover the different characteristics of the eight planets, sing karaoke, participate in a rap battle about the sun and learn about the differences between revolution and rotation.
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Space tourism: Virgin space plane to fly above new base - BBC News
.css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;} Virgin Galactic is set to carry out a milestone test flight of its rocket-powered tourist plane on Saturday.
This will be the first crewed flight of its reusable Unity vehicle to take off from the purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico, US.
Already, more than 600 paying customers - including Justin Bieber and Leonardo DiCaprio - are booked to take a ride on the plane.
Saturday's flight will be the first of three final demonstration flights before that commercial service begins.
History channel: Said 2020 to 2021: I am the year that is leaving dangerously
Chidanand Rajghatta is The Times of India's US-based Foreign Editor, long-time Washington DC scribe and sutradhar, and author of The Horse That Flew: How India's Silicon G urus Spread Their Wings. LESS ... MORE
"Really? I thought you got rid of a rank narcissist, saw through the election of the oldest US president and the first female vice-president ever, there were quite a few peace accords on your watch, space travel ticked up with renewed interest in exploration, there were great medical advances, and the stock market did very well after a momentary dip, among other things," said 2021, mystified about why 2020 was leaving so unhappy after he was heralded with rah-rah previews.
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