Keep your eyes on the weather this weekend, if you are flying in the Northeast, as Hurricane Henri approaches the area. Henri was upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane on Saturday. The storm brings with it heavy winds, rain, and storm surge. The hurricane is likely to make landfall between Long Island and Southern New England Sunday. The National Weather Service reports the most likely time of arrival of tropical-storm-force winds for southern New England to be Sunday morning.
New Shepard’s next mission is gearing up for takeoff. NASA will be flying a lunar landing technology demonstration on the exterior of the booster, and there will be an art installation on the capsule’s exterior. You can watch live on BlueOrigin.com August 25th 13:35 UTC as the mission commences from Launch Site One in West Texas. This launch will be the 8th flight for this vehicle and the 17th New Shepard mission to date. The NS-17 flight will test a suite of lunar landing technologies under a partnership with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate for the second time. The first flight’s data provided information that is extremely valuable for future missions, with the poten
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