Tag Archives: Aviation/Space

NASA taps 3-D printer firm for ‘Star Trek’-style food replicator

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“U.S. space agency NASA has tapped 3-D printer firm Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC) to create the first-ever ‘Star Trek’-style food replicator using 3-D printing technology.  According to Quartz, NASA gave the company a six month, $125,000 grant contract to focus on developing 3-D printers that use cartridges full of carbohydrates, protein powders and oils that can be combined in layers to produce food.
Grocery stores could be gradually transformed to ultra-cheap cartridge retailers while non-nutrient edible products are phased out by market forces.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/21/nasa-taps-3-d-printer-firm-for-star-trek-style-food-replicator/

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In-Flight Thieves Targeting Airline Travelers’ Carry-On Bags

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“Travel experts such as Hobica say theft on planes is a growing problem, with bags getting swiped, valuables stolen and pockets picked. Jewelry, money and medications are often the sought-after prizes. One of the reasons in-flight thefts are rising is because more travelers are trying to avoid checking their bags these days. ‘People don’t want to pay the check-bag fee,’ Hobica said, adding, ‘They also know there can be a lot of theft from baggage handlers.’  More passengers carrying on luggage means overhead bins are packed. Travelers often cannot use an overhead bin near their seats, putting their valuables out of sight.”

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/19/thieves-targeting-airline-travelers-carry-on-bags/

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$625K in gold stolen at Miami International Airport

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“A box containing $625,000 in gold arrived in Miami but disappeared about an hour and a half later, Miami-Dade police say. An American Airlines plane arrived at Miami International Airport from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and docked at Gate D3 at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday, according to a Miami-Dade Police Department incident report. A tug arrived at the plane from Gate D6, according to the report. It then drove away with the cart holding the plane’s cargo at 5:22 a.m. Surveillance video showed the tug continue to D37 before it entered an alley and disappeared from the video.  The cart was found in front of Gate D19 at 6:20 a.m. but without the box containing the gold.”

http://www.local10.com/news/625k-in-gold-stolen-at-miami-international-airport/-/1717324/20161968/-/xt3ywvz/-/index.html

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First-ever music video filmed in space is David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’

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First-ever music video filmed in space is David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’

“In an amazing video published Sunday by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, he bids farewell to the International Space Station with the most epic cover of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ perhaps ever, in footage that will go down as the first music video filmed in space.  The ISS commander has made a habit of publishing YouTube videos from far above Earth showing the amazing properties of zero gravity living and the difficulties it presents astronauts in doing common tasks like clipping their fingernails or wringing out a wet rag. Hadfield and two other astronauts are set to leave the ISS on May 14, after spending six months at the station.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/12/first-ever-music-video-filmed-in-space-is-david-bowies-space-oddity/

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Richard Branson: Space tourism won’t hurt environment

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“More than 500 people have already reserved seats — and paid deposits on the $200,000 ticket price — for a minutes-long suborbital flight on the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) set to begin by the end of this year. ‘We have reduced the (carbon emission) cost of somebody going into space from something like two weeks of New York’s electricity supply… to less than the cost of a economy round-trip from Singapore to London,’ Branson told reporters in Singapore.  The SS2′s lightweight carbon-fibre body will also ‘reduce fuel burn dramatically’, he said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/13/space-tourism-wont-hurt-environment-richard-branson/

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Tesla’s Elon Musk Is No Dummy

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“You have to be pretty smart to create an online payment company, an electric car company and a space exploration company in quick succession. Indeed, Elon Musk, who founded or co-founded PayPal, Tesla Motors  and SpaceX, has degrees in economics and physics. He started a PhD at Stanford in applied physics and materials science, but dropped out to become an entrepreneur.  Smart move. Today, Musk is worth an estimated $4.3 billion after strong gains in Tesla shares, along with Solar City, where he is chairman and owns 28 percent.  Proceeds from share sales will be used to pay off Tesla’s taxpayer loan under a Department of Energy program.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/05/16/teslas-elon-musk-is-no-dummy/

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Airliner diverted as secure cockpit door locks pilot out mid-flight

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“An Air India flight to Bangalore was diverted to another city after the pilot returned from a toilet break and found the door to the cockpit jammed shut, the state-run carrier says. The flight left Delhi but the plane had to be diverted to Bhopal in central India when the pilot realised he could not get back to the controls. ‘The commander of the flight had left the cockpit for a short while to visit the toilet and on returning to the cockpit found the door locked,’ Air India said in statement. It said that ‘all efforts to open the door, even from inside by the co-pilot, failed’. The co-pilot was forced to diverted the flight to Bhopal where the door was repaired.”

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/india-flight-diverted-as-cockpit-door-jams/story-fnhrvfwz-1226642605771

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TSA issued $1.8 million in airport firearms fines last year

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“There were 1,549 firearms discovered at TSA checkpoints nationwide in 2012. TSA has found 10 guns at Memphis International Airport this year and six at McGhee Tyson.  Weapons — included guns — are not permitted in carry-on baggage. Passengers are responsible for the contents of bags they bring to the security checkpoint.  Passengers who bring firearms to a checkpoint face a civil penalty from TSA, which last year assessed more than $1.8 million in civil penalties for firearms discovered in passenger carry-on bags.”

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/may/15/tsa-finds-loaded-pistol-in-carry-on-luggage-at/

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Flying the Government Skies

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“The sequester cuts about $637 million from the FAA, which is less than 4% of its $15.9 billion 2012 budget, and it limits the agency to what it spent in 2010. The White House decided to translate this 4% cut that it has the legal discretion to avoid into a 10% cut for air traffic controllers. Though controllers will be furloughed for one of every 10 working days, four of every 10 flights won’t arrive on time.  The FAA projects the delays will rob one out of every three travellers of up to four hours of their lives waiting at the major hubs. Congress passed a law in 2009 that makes such delays illegal — if they are the responsibility of an airline.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323735604578440981119902460.html

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Mars One has 78,000 applicants so far—sort of

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“Mars One, the private venture with the audacious goal of sending humans to Mars—permanently—as early as 2023 made a splash earlier this week when it announced that more than 78,000 people had applied for its ‘astronaut selection program’  just two weeks after starting to accept applications. Lansdorp is very pleased with the public response to the campagn, the first step in a long process to select the first four-person crew that Mars One plans to launch in 2022.”

http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/05/09/mars-one-has-78000-applicants-so-far-sort-of/

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