Anonymous ID: f0bb61 Jan. 6, 2018, 12:53 p.m. No.7965   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8595

AREA 59 CREW DRAGON….FIRE AND FURY

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With 2018 just taking its initial steps SpaceX is already moving forward with plans for the new year. The company’s COO, Gwynne Shotwell, noted during a 2016 press conference, the “hell” they won’t fly crew before 2019. That year has come and, according to Florida Today’s James Dean, Crew Dragon is being readied for this mission via a recent agreement signed between SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force.

 

Area 59, a site previously used for the processing of satellites, will now be used to get the Crew Dragon spacecraft ready to send astronauts to the International Space Station under the space agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

 

This is just the latest location along Florida’s Space Coast to fall under SpaceX’s influence. Kicking off with Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, the NewSpace company has also gained the use of Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A and Space Launch Complex 13 (since renamed Landing Zone 1).

 

When coupled with Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4E (East) in California and its facilities at Boca Chica, Texas – SpaceX has expanded its launch and processing operations across the United States.

 

Like a number of facilities at CCAFS and KSC, Area 59 was tapped by the U.S. Air Force to be closed down and offered up to commercial entities like SpaceX in 2014. According to Florida Today’s report, the commander of the 45th Space Wing, Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, said that an estimated one million square feet had either been leased or licensed to the private sector as part of the Commercial Space Launch Act.

 

Also according to the report posted on Florida Today, SpaceX hopes to conduct its first (unmanned) Crew Dragon test flight in April with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner currently eyeing an August uncrewed launch date. Should everything with these flights go off without a hitch, crewed flights could take place as early as August and November (respectively).

 

The United States has lacked the ability to launch astronauts on its own since 2011 when the final space shuttle mission, STS-135, came to an end with Shuttle Atlantis touching down at the Shuttle Landing Facility’s runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since that time, NASA has relied on Russian Soyuz flights to get to and from the orbiting laboratory (each seat has been estimated at costing NASA $70 million).

 

Meanwhile, Florida’s finicky weather appears to be cooperating for this week’s planned launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 with the secret “Zuma” payload currently slated to take to the skies Thursday, Jan. 4. The launch window is scheduled to open at 8 p.m. EST and extends two hours.

 

Read more at http: //www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technologies/area-51-forget-terms-spacex-crew-dragon-area-59/#wDqUrUeh6ZbyYbpI.99

Anonymous ID: f0bb61 Jan. 6, 2018, 1:19 p.m. No.8225   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Gerrymandering districts and housing projects to keep black pop in slave districts. Urban development, water quality, air quality, food distribution. Targets low income black areas with depopulation tactics

Anonymous ID: f0bb61 Jan. 6, 2018, 1:25 p.m. No.8305   🗄️.is đź”—kun

The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548)[1] is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The Resolution was adopted in the form of a United States Congress joint resolution. It provides that the U.S. President can send U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, "statutory authorization," or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."

 

The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period, without a Congressional authorization for use of military force (AUMF) or a declaration of war by the United States. The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding the veto of the bill from President Nixon.

 

It has been alleged that the War Powers Resolution has been violated in the past – for example, by President Bill Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo. Congress has disapproved all such incidents, but none has resulted in any successful legal actions being taken against the president for alleged violations.[2]