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Students get out-of-this-world experience at Challenger Learning Center – Belleville News

The flight vests were one-size-fits-all. The view outside the spacecraft during launch was a video of a rocket taking off. But to fourth-graders from Greenville and Sorento, it was the beginning of an out-of-this-world mission they had spent a month … Continue reading

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Track Star Alexi Pappas Chases Olympic Dreams In Her New Feature Film

This is a big weekend for Alexi Pappas. Tracktown — the feature film she co-wrote, co-directed and stars in — is premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The film follows a young runner named Plumb Marigold as she chases … Continue reading

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Aging aerospace workforce seeks young talent in Aurora

By BRANDON JOHANSSON, Aurora Sentinel AURORA, Colo. — On the far end of the Cherry Creek Schools Institute of Science and Technology sits a room that would appear more at home inside an airplane hangar. Flight simulators that mimic a … Continue reading

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Engineering to Science: “You Complete Me”

“Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jiggling and wiggling of atoms.” the Feynman Lectures, 1963 It was always about science, says Bernard Charles, CEO of Dassault Systèmes (DS) to the audience of  the national conference of  Abaqus users recently held in Orlando. He … Continue reading

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Master Airscrew released New Series of Factory Pre-Balanced Propellers for Model Airplanes and UAVs

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For Joint Strike Fighter Engine Workers And Supporters, A Chance To Sit In The Cockpit

EASTFORD — The pilot kept a steady right thumb on the red button as his target grew larger on the cockpit screen. “We’re 30 miles away, everything is still under control,” his guide said. It was a tiny building, but … Continue reading

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Technique could help climate models sweat the small stuff

A new statistical technique that puts the fine details back into computer simulations of large-scale phenomena might prove useful in capturing the influence of cloud formation, a significant source of uncertainty in current climate models. Credit: Brad Marston A team … Continue reading

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