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Boeing | December 03, 2019

The Boeing Co. this week is sending industry stakeholders to Seattle to provide an update on its work to return the 737 MAX to service. Boeing spokesperson Paul Bergman says the event, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, will provide invited guests with a two-day review of 737 MAX software upgrades, training and the certification process. “This is a further element in our outreach across the industry, with more than 20 global conferences, and a series of briefings and simulator sessions that in all have reached more than 1,600 participants and over 300 organizations,” Bergman said in an emailed response to the WBJ. “The goal is to provide industry stakeholders a firm foundation of knowledge in the technical and training updates for the 737 MAX at the appropriate point in the certification process. The visit will help them understand how the MAX software update and training will prevent an MCAS-related accident from ever happening again and the changes Boeing has made as a result of the accidents.”

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Nationaldefense | May 31, 2019

Austin, texas to better understand new technologies and scientific efforts that could aid warfighters, the army is connecting with industry and academia through its “mad scientist” initiative. the service is asking itself where the military challenges and opportunities are moving forward, lee grubbs, mad scientist director, said in an interview with national defense on the sidelines of the program’s annual conference. we translate that into real-person speak civilian speak. we look at where analogies of that exist in the commercial world.as the service has shifted focus from counterinsurgency to large-scale operations, the army decided the time was right to bring back the mad scientist program a few years ago, grubbs said. the 2018 national defense strategy puts a renewed focus on countering great power adversaries such as russia and china.

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Astronomy | May 31, 2019

North American's Moon lander was ugly and "buglike," but Neil Armstrong and five additional missions used it to safely touch down on the surface. When NASA began working out the details of how to land on the Moon, the mission involved one spacecraft, not two. But when the agency changed its approach in July 1962, committing instead to Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, a new plan emerged. Now, one astronaut would stay aboard the heavy mothership in lunar orbit, while his two crewmates would descend to the surface. What they would descend in was unclear. No one knew how to land on another world, much less how to build something that could land on the Moon, so NASA asked interested contractors to submit bids to build the Lunar Excursion Module.

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