Retired Brigadier General Chuck Yeager was a 24-year-old Captain on that day decades ago.
Captain Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager made history flying an X-1 jet on October 14, 1947.
USAF: “With all four rockets firing Yeager flies to 56,000 feet in less than two minutes.”
The US Air Force documenting the flight of the legendary pilot.
USAF: “And he does it. The first human to crack the sound barrier.”
Yeager died last night at 97. Carmen Roberts Fox News
Japanese spacecraft delivers asteroid dust from 180 million miles away in space.
Hayabusa2 Swings by Earth to Deliver Asteroid Samples
After spending 6 years in space, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth and delivered precious samples from a distant asteroid. Pieces of dust and soil that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth. On board a capsule launched from the spacecraft are the world’s first subsurface samples from an asteroid. These came from Ryugu about 180-million miles and one year away. Hayabusa2’s work won’t end today. The spacecraft’s already on its way to another distant asteroid. A journey that will take 10 years – one way. Carmen Roberts Fox News.
The December skies will be filled with lots of shows including the Geminid meteor shower
which starts the night of December 4.
The Geminids will peak overnight between December 13 and 14.
Look up tonight and you may see the annual Geminid meteor shower which will last through the 17th. NASA says this year’s show in space will be brighter because it coincides with a nearly new moon, making the skies even darker.
The Geminids arrives each year as the Earth plows through the debris left in the orbit of an asteroid known as Phaethon or what NASA says could actually be a burnt-out comet. For the best view find a spot away from bright city lights and then just look up. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.
You can catch another show on December 21 when Jupiter and Saturn appear so close they will seem to be “one” in the night sky. They won’t make this great conjunction again until 2080.
Nicolas Cage plays a mentor to young warrior.
“I can fly too.” You’ll see Nicolas Cage flying a lot in his new martial arts movie “Jiu Jitsu” and it won’t always be a stunt double because Cage really knows how to fight. The film’s director Dimitri Logothetis tells the New York Post that Cage is trained in jiujitsu and that in his words, “He knew an awful lot and did a lot of moves on-camera.” But he adds, “We didn’t let him do the dangerous stuff.”
“He’s crazy like me.” You can see just how crazy good Cage is on Friday when the film hits theaters. Carmen Roberts. Fox News
A scientific study produces what may be alarming news about global warming.
Polar bears have less ice for hunting as temperatures rise.
The authors of the study say, “The world is already past a point of no return for global warming,” that even if human-caused greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced to zero temperatures may continue to rise for centuries. The study published in the British journal, Scientific Reports, says the only way to stop global warming now is to extract enormous amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Several other climate scientists are criticizing the study though, and the authors admit their computer model study is small, so they hope others will use bigger ones to explore their discoveries. Carmen Roberts. Fox News