Public · Art · Hosted by Lancaster Museum of Art and History – MOAH
September 18th at 2 pm in the Main Gallery for a special guest talk. Cam Martin from the NASA Armstrong Research Center hosted a special Curator’s Talk on the current exhibition of NASA Flight Research: Probing the Sky as part of Made in America.
By California High-Speed Rail Authority [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
“Antelope Valley residents told the Board of Supervisors Wednesday that the Palmdale-to-Burbank high-speed rail segment proposed to run through the Big Tujunga Wash in the Angeles National Forest would divide the community of Lake View Terrace, threaten wildlife and crush property values.
Supervisor Michael Antonovich recommended that the board send a letter opposing the plan — one of three alternatives set for environmental review — to county lobbyists and the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board.
“Throughout the environmental process, as alternatives have been added, refined, or deleted, we have consistently advocated for alternatives that are tunnel-oriented and less community-intrusive,” Antonovich said. “The Refined E-2 Alignment is not consistent with those principles, and should be removed.”
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said that such a letter might be interpreted as support for the remaining two alternatives and suggested a more detailed critique” (Read full article via mynewsla.com).
The fatal breakup and crash of Virgin Galactic’s first SpaceShipTwo space plane last year was caused by a co-pilot error, as well as the failure of the spacecraft’s builders to anticipate such a catastrophic mistake, federal safety investigators say.
SpaceShipTwo crashed in October when co-pilot Michael Alsbury unlocked the commercial space plane’s re-entry “feathering” system too early during a test flight over California’s Mojave Desert, investigators with the NationalTransportation Safety Board said in a hearing today (July 28). (via space.com)
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