TYB
QUIET DOWN, COURT'S IN SESSION!
Be funny if he gave a rally-like testimony with the music and everything
Sierra Space completes first Dream Chaser
November 6, 2023
Sierra Space has completed assembly of its first Dream Chaser vehicle as it aims for a launch of that spacecraft to the International Space Station as soon as next spring.
The company announced Nov. 2 the completion of the first Dream Chaser, named Tenacity, at its facility in Louisville, Colorado. The vehicle will be shipped in the “coming weeks” to NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility, the former Plum Brook Facility, in Ohio for environmental testing.
In development in one form or another for well over a decade, Dream Chaser is intended to initially serve as a cargo transportation vehicle, ferrying supplies and experiments to and from the ISS. It will launch on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral and return to Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility runway at the Kennedy Space Center.
Once at NASA’s Armstrong facility, Dream Chaser will undergo environmental testing in that center’s large thermal vacuum chamber. Ken Shields, senior director business development of in-space R&D, manufacturing and emerging markets at Sierra Space, said at the American Astronautical Society’s von Braun Space Exploration Symposium Oct. 27 that he expected that those tests would be completed and Dream Chaser shipped to Cape Canaveral by the end of the year.
Sierra Space has not disclosed a target launch date for that first Dream Chaser mission, but Shields said that mission is currently planned for launch “some time in March.” That date will depend not only on the readiness of Dream Chaser itself but also the Vulcan launch vehicle. The launch will be the second flight of Vulcan, after an inaugural launch in late December of Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander.
Dream Chaser has a minimum of seven missions to the ISS under a Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract award in 2016. In addition to the cargo version of Dream Chaser, Sierra Space has plans for a crewed version, reviving the concept it previously worked on for NASA’s commercial crew program but was not selected by the agency for development in 2014. A separate version of the vehicle may also be developed for unspecified national security applications.
Dream Chaser is one of Sierra Space’s primary contributions, along with inflatable habitation modules, for the Orbital Reef commercial space station concept being developed with Blue Origin and other companies. Executives of both companies say they remain committed to work together on Orbital Reef despite reports of tensions between the two and Blue Origin shifting resources from Orbital Reef to other projects.
“Blue Origin has a heavy-lift vehicle in New Glenn. We have a transportation system for crew and cargo with Dream Chaser. We’re working together to build a space station,” Janet Kavandi, president and chief science officer of Sierra Space, said during a panel at AIAA’s ASCEND conference Oct. 24. “It’s a very complementary system. It works out really well, taking advantage of all those different capabilities.”
https://spacenews.com/sierra-space-completes-first-dream-chaser/
Tyson Recalls 30,000 Pounds of Chicken 'Fun Nuggets'
Monday, 06 November 2023 07:37 AM EST
Tyson Foods is recalling nearly 30,000 pounds (13,600 kilograms) of breaded chicken "Fun Nuggets'' after consumers complained of finding metal pieces in the dinosaur-shaped patties.
The nuggets, sold in 29-ounce bags, were produced on Sept. 5 by the Berryville, Arkansas, company. Tyson informed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service and said it recalled the nuggets voluntarily “out of an abundance of caution. USDA said that there had been only one report of a ”minor oral injury associated with consumption of this product.
The nuggets subject to the recall carry the number P7211 on the back of the package. They were shipped to distributors in Alabama, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin to be passed on to retailers.
The USDA urged consumers with the nuggets in their freezers to throw them out or return them to the place of purchase.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/tyson-foods-chicken-nuggets/2023/11/06/id/1141116/
I’m a UFC star – my grandparents were abducted by aliens who did experiments on them in their flying saucer
Updated: 15:40, 5 Nov 2023
FROM a UFO to the UFC, fighter Angela Hill is not the first famous member of her family.
The 38-year-old defeated Denise Gomes in the octagon last night as she extended her unbeaten career to 29 bouts.
But outside of the UFC, Hill has an interest in the extra-terrestrial.
And her passion stems from her grandparents' place in UFO legend.
Barney and Betty were everyday people, travelling back from a holiday at Niagara Falls in 1961 when their life was turned upside down.
En route to their house in New Hampshire, they claim they were abducted by aliens.
They claimed they saw a flying saucer hovering over the road and woke up three hours later unable to remember anything.
They were later hypnotised and told a psychiatrist they had been taken on to the flying saucer, where they taken in turns to an examination room.
The aliens removed their clothes and took samples of their hair, skin and finger nails.
They also inserted probes into their heads, arms, legs and spines.
Hill embraces her family history, telling BBC Sport: "It has always been a fact to us.
"We know something happened, even if it isn't exactly what has been put out there."
Hill also told the Hard Times podcast: "They got abducted and they didn’t remember what had happened, but they started having similar nightmares.
"They got Men in Black-ed.
"I went to Philly where all my dad’s family is and talked to all the close relatives about my grandfather.
"They kind of recall when it happened, they all believe it.”
After Barney and Betty told the press about their ordeal, it went on to become one of the most famous abduction stories in US history.
The tale was adapted into a best-selling book in 1966 called 'The Interrupted Journey' and was then turned into a TV film in 1975 named 'The UFO Incident'.
Barney was played by James Earl Jones in the movie, who later starred in the Lion King and voiced Star Wars character Darth Vader.
Meanwhile, Bonnie and Clyde actress Estelle Parsons was Betty.
Hill is proud of her grandparents' unusual fame, saying: "It's kind of a cool thing to be able to see on TV and relate to.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/24638147/angela-hill-ufc-grandparents-abducted-aliens-spaceship/
First episode is free on National Geographic.
Looks like the episodes can also be found on YT.
I don't see it on Rumble yet.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/jfk-one-day-in-america