22 million horsepower solid rocket engine test
For the impatient. skip to the 1:40 mark.
NASA and industry partners lit up the Utah sky on Sept. 10, 2009, with the initial full scale, full-duration test firing of the first motor for the Ares I rocket. ATK Space Systems conducted the successful stationary firing of the five-segment solid development motor 1, or DM-1. ATK Space Systems, a division of Alliant Techsystems of Brigham City, Utah, is the prime contractor for the Ares I first stage. Engineers will use the measurements gathered from the test to evaluate thrust, roll control, acoustics and motor vibrations. This data will provide valuable information as NASA develops the Ares I and Ares V vehicles. Another ground test is planned for summer 2010.
Flockdraw B&P
J-Walk has posted some Flockdraw Tips. Go there and read over the tips. Below is a an embedded Flockdraw example.
Here is a static Flockdraw page for B&P readers. The mouse wheel works fine there.
Be creative!
Man creates his own wanted poster – sort of
Man in stolen cell phone pic turns himself in
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia teenager who authorities say used a stolen cell phone to snap a photo of himself that automatically got sent to the victim has turned himself in.
Eighteen-year-old Kadeem Cook turned himself in around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
Cook is the main suspect in an armed robbery on Oct. 7.
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The victim’s cell phone was taken during the robbery. The 20-year-old woman had programmed her phone so that it would automatically send photos to her home computer.
Some time after the robbery, she received a photo of a young man holding a large handgun to his head.
After the photo was released, the gunman was identified as Cook and an arrest warrant was issued.
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