SpaceX private spacewalk crew returns to Earth
16 Sep
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SpaceX private spacewalk crew returns to Earth

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NASA Space Technology NewsA billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has travelled since NASA's moonwalkers.Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman became the 264th person to perform a spacewalkThe Associated Press · Posted: Sep 15, 2024 5:38 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 15In this image taken from video, tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, centre, is seen following his return with his crew after the SpaceX capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida's Dry Tortugas early Sunday. (SpaceX/The Associated Press)A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has travelled since NASA's moonwalkers.SpaceX's capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida's Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness,...
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NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge
16 Sep
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NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge

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NASA Space Technology Sarah DouglasSep 13, 2024The Digital Information Platform (DIP) Sub-Project of Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) is seeking to make available in the National Airspace System a variety of live data feeds and services built on that data. The goal is to allow external partners to build advanced, data-driven services using this data and to make these services available to flight operators, who will use these capabilities to save fuel and avoid delays. Different wind directions, weather conditions at or near the airport, inoperative runway, etc., affects the runway configurations to be used and impacts the overall arrival throughputs. Knowing the arrival runway and its congestion level ahead of time will enable aviation operators to perform better flight planning and improve the flight efficiency. This competition seeks to make better predictions of...
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NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training
16 Sep
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NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training

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NASA Space Technology Credits: NASA/Trevor Graff/Robert MarkowitzBlack and gray sediment stretches as far as the eye can see. Boulders sit on top of ground devoid of vegetation. Humans appear almost miniature in scale against a swath of shadowy mountains. At first glance, it seems a perfect scene from an excursion on the Moon’s surface … except the people are in hiking gear, not spacesuits.Iceland has served as a lunar stand-in for training NASA astronauts since the days of the Apollo missions, and this summer the Artemis II crew took its place in that long history. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, along with their backups, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas and CSA astronaut Jenni Gibbons, joined geology experts for field training on the Nordic island.“Apollo astronauts...
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