NASA’s New Heat Shield Could Get Humans On Mars
By Katie Mohr, Associate Editor
Wed, 10/07/2015 – 2:18pm
NASA is one step closer to sending man to Mars with its latest heat-shield concept, named ADEPT, or Adaptive Deployable Entry and Placement Technology.
To put it in NASA terms, “The objective of ADEPT is to develop a semi-rigid low ballistic coefficient aeroshell entry system concept to perform and entry descent landing (EDL) functions for planetary missions.”
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Alabama may be winning a ‘new War Between the States’
By Erin Edgemon
on October 03, 2015 at 11:53 AM, updated October 03, 2015 at 9:53 PM
In recruitment of new industry, Alabama appears to be winning a “new War Between the States,” according to a Hearst newspapers report.
The Heart of Dixie and “other development-minded states” are winning this new war because of low sales and income taxes and right-to-work laws that hinder the formation of labor unions.
Alabama was ranked No. 2 by Business Facilities in auto manufacturing and workforce development.
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Daimler’s Self-Driving Truck Hits the Highway in Germany
Agence France-Presse
Oct 2, 2015
BERLIN-German automaker Daimler said it trialed a self-driving truck under real traffic conditions for the first time Friday, on a motorway in southern Germany.
The truck has smart systems including radar, cameras and active speed regulators and works without a human driver–although someone has to be in the driver’s seat and take the wheel if necessary.
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