Hale vowed to write NASA boss Sean O’Keefe that the screen-savers were sending the wrong message by stressing flight deadlines and putting pressure on everyone. Finally, after 10 minutes, mission director Tim Crain called out that the lander was sending a faint signal back to Earth. The U.S. and Soviet space programs dueled throughout the decade, launching various satellites (military, communications, environmental) and sending their men (and eventually, women) on increasingly ambitious missions. Those initial series and comic strips portrayed space travel like a Western, with white, male pioneers venturing into the new frontier, not so unlike the white settlers of the Americas, “discovering” new terrains already occupied by Indigenous populations. But he said there were so many variables that the final resting place of the US$165 million lander might never be known, unless the Mars Global Surveyor satellite, which has been mapping the Red Planet since 1997 and is photographing the landing site, can find its long white parachute — the largest single object with the tiny craft. The final trials took place at Shreveport Regional Airport, Louisiana, which has a large insect population. VAMP is designed to drift through the clouds like a blimp, collecting atmospheric data and samples for further study back on Earth.

Yet our latest global study at BlessingWhite revealed that just 30 per cent of European em-ployees are fully engaged. Time to face the facts: I’m useless and my dreams are dead. It includes Docs, Sheets and Slides which are Google’s version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, although nowhere near as powerful. In addition to the initial trio, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, today, Microsoft Office also includes Access, Publisher, OneNote and Outlook – all of which seamlessly integrate with each other. The certification process includes a test flight to send at least one NASA astronaut to the space station. Stores everywhere were chaos as usual this Friday, but space has got us beat for epicness. Hey, it might be too late to create something for this year that can compete with NASA’s, but maybe now you’ve got some inspiration for next year’s pumpkin. When a planned return to Earth got delayed twice in a row, crew were woken by “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” – it was early July. It launched in 1990, just a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it was deployed by the crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery. According to Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, these astronauts will “nearly double the scientific research potential” on the Space Station.

Images of the Earth from space radically changed the way we saw it, giving us our first glimpses of our world as a single, connected system, unbroken by national borders. Since the time of the writing of Carper’s first articles starting in 2003 (a prelude to the book) there have been four supposed major and highly visible “impacts” that have not matched the signature of what we saw with the SL-9 impacts of 1994, or a signature that was even plausible given all of the parameters (a reminder that Shoemaker-Levy-9 comet impacts generated heat that was orders of magnitude LESS than what the proposed LWRHU fission/fusion reaction would generate). Of the 600-plus people who have gone to space so far, only 75 have been women, and 18 have been Black, five of whom were Black women, led by Mae Jemison. Just a year prior, Russia had launched Sputnik, kickstarting a decades-long space race between the US and Soviet Union. Companies will have 30 days to respond, and NASA said it will pick a new winner by early next year. The trouble is, scientists have had few opportunities to try to answer these questions.

SpaceX has lofty goals of eventually launching a variety of payloads every few days. Duolingo: This language learning app offers free lessons in a variety of languages, with interactive activities and gamification to make learning fun. For kids, dish TV really helps in learning a lot, will also enjoy the earlier species survived in and the general knowledge about the planet will get increased. The two-party system will never change, so long as people keep voting for one of those two parties. On Friday Wired News profiled a “lonely” former astronaut, Rusty Schweickart, who is leading a campaign to protect the earth from the possibility of an asteroid crashing into Earth and killing millions of people. It was initially introduced to modest reviews because the interface was vastly different from the former leading word processor, WordPerfect. However Nasa, along with Boeing, is trying to tackle a rather less dramatic but no less important problem: drag caused by the carcasses of insects splattered on aircraft wings during takeoff and landing. An aircraft needs laminar flow — the uninterrupted flow of air over the wings — to maintain stable flight.