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.
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
A date is set to launch astronauts into space from American soil again. Fox’s Carmen Roberts reports. You can watch the launch May 27th at 4:32 PM Eastern time on NASA TV
It’s been nearly a decade since the last rocket blasted Americans into space from their home soil, but that long drought may finally be over. NASA and SpaceX announcing they will resume the tradition on May 27.
This is the final test for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Spacecraft before it begins carrying astronauts to the International Space Station on a regular basis.
The new era of human spaceflight beings next month as astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken blast off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Carmen Roberts Fox News