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June 26, 2019

Airborne 06.26.19: H55 Zero-Emission E-Plane, Restored Apollo MCC, Skip Stewart

Also: Congressmen Call For Heli-Ban, Quality Sport Planes, $20B LEAP-1A Order, Allegiant Air Penalty

H55, a Solar Impulse technological spin off, has successfully flown a new electric airplane. Powered by H55’s electric propulsion system and manufactured by BRM Aero, the Bristell Energic is a 2-seater fully electric airplane to be used for pilot training and flight schools. H55 develops certified electric propulsion solutions to enable the next aviation revolution. The company focuses on the entire propulsion chain, to be certified CS 23, starting from the energy source and its management, through thrust and power, to pilot interface and control systems. Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston l

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NASA Set To Open Newly-Restored Apollo Mission Control Center

Ribbon Cutting Scheduled For June 28

Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on the Moon. To commemorate an accomplishment that forever changed the world, the Apollo Mission Control Center has been restored to appear as it did in that era just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) Will Demonstrate In Space For The First Time A New Non-Toxic Propellant

Aerojet Rocketdyne, along with NASA, Ball Aerospace and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is helping usher in a new era of small satellite propulsion through the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM). On June 24, a Ball Aerospace small satellite was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft will conduct a 13-month demonstration of a revolutionary “green” propellant developed by the AFRL, called AF-M315E.

Landed In Kazakhstan Tuesday Morning With Two Crewmates

NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two of her Expedition 59 crewmates returned to Earth from the International Space Station Monday, landing safely in Kazakhstan at 10:47 p.m. EDT (8:47 a.m. Tuesday, June 25, local time) after months of science and four spacewalks aboard the microgravity laboratory.

Clues Discovered In Ancient Comet Dust

Materials science researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have found a remnant of ancient dust from the early stages of the solar system inside a primitive meteorite, named La Paz Icefield 02342 after the location of its discovery in Antarctica.

First Night Launch For Largest SpaceX Rocket

NASA technology demonstrations, which one day could help the agency get astronauts to Mars, and science missions, which will look at the space environment around Earth and how it affects us, have launched into space on a Falcon Heavy rocket.