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Rodney checked his watch again, frowning, then suddenly realized how bad that looked and moved to scratch his arm like that was all he was doing. Just scratching an itch, not looking at his watch for what felt like the dozenth time. He put his hand back on the table and drummed his middle finger nervously. He realized how bad that looked and quickly distracted his hand by grabbing his glass and taking another sip of water. He felt his eyes being drawn down to his wrist again, but quickly suppressed the urge, beginning to heave a heavy sigh which he quickly covered in a light cough. His waitress appeared at the table, refilling his glass with a sympathetic smile. This cycle had been going on for a while, and he’d gone through several glasses already.

Rodney looked across the restaurant towards the door, hoping against all hope to see a blonde bun come bustling through. He realized he was looking desperate, again, and pretended to simply be scanning the dining area absentmindedly. This allowed him to take stock of the glances being sent his way, some pitying, some amused. His eyes shot back down to his table, retracing the floral engravings at the base of his silverware. That wasn’t helping.

He felt eyes boring into him and turned to find a young blonde woman sitting in one of the booths along the wall staring at him sympathetically. Her boyfriend didn’t appear to notice her diverted attention, continuing to talk rather frantically, something about turtles. She ducked her head slightly and shot him an apologetic smile, assuredly some attempt at solidarity. Rodney’s spine straightened and he raised his chin, turning back to look straight ahead at a fixed point on the wall, eyes flickering as he considered his options.

He contemplated pulling out his cell and faking a phone call. Something about feeling sick, or her dog getting out, or maybe, her brother is, uh, in jail. Rodney calculated how pitifully transparent that would look and then how utterly pathetic he would look, and was well on his way to working out the pros and cons of faking an allergic reaction when suddenly a man slid into the seat across from him, already talking, loudly.

“Aw man, sorry I’m late, traffic is insane out there. Have you ordered yet?” Rodney stared at him, bug eyed, mouth hanging open slightly, when the man continued in a much quieter tone of voice, “Hey, name’s John, just roll with it okay buddy? They’re not worth it anyway.”

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The James Webb Space Telescope is launching on December 22, 2021. Webb’s revolutionary technology will explore every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, to everything in between. Postdoctoral Research Associate Naomi Rowe-Gurney will be taking your questions about Webb and Webb science in an Answer Time session on Tuesday, December 14 from noon to 1 p.m EST here on our Tumblr!

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Dr. Naomi Rowe-Gurney recently completed her PhD at the University of Leicester and is now working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a postdoc through Howard University. As a planetary scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, she’s an expert on the atmospheres of the ice giants in our solar system — Uranus and Neptune — and how the Webb telescope will be able to learn more about them.

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From advanced wing designs, through the hypersonic frontier, and onward into the era of composite structures, electronic flight controls, and energy efficient flight, our engineers and researchers have led the way in virtually every aeronautic development. And since 2011, aeronautical innovators from around the country have been working on our Unmanned Aircraft Systems integration in the National Airspace System, or UAS in the NAS, project.  

This project was a new type of undertaking that worked to identify, develop, and test the technologies and procedures that will make it possible for unmanned aircraft systems to have routine access to airspace occupied by human piloted aircraft. Since the start, the goal of this unified team was to provide vital research findings through simulations and flight tests to support the development and validation of detect and avoid and command and control technologies necessary for integrating UAS into the NAS.  

That interest moved into full-scale testing and evaluation to determine how to best integrate unmanned vehicles into the national airspace and how to come up with standards moving forward. Normally, 44,000 flights safely take off and land here in the U.S., totaling more than 16 million flights per year. With the inclusion of millions of new types of unmanned aircraft, this integration needs to be seamless in order to keep the flying public safe.

Working hand-in-hand, teams collaborated to better understand how these UAS’s would travel in the national airspace by using NASA-developed software in combination with flight tests. Much of this work is centered squarely on technology called detect and avoid.  One of the primary safety concerns with these new systems is the inability of remote operators to see and avoid other aircraft.  Because unmanned aircraft literally do not have a pilot on board, we have developed concepts allowing safe operation within the national airspace.  

In order to better understand how all the systems work together, our team flew a series of tests to gather data to inform the development of minimum operational performance standards for detect and avoid alerting guidance. Over the course of this testing, we gathered an enormous amount of data allowing safe integration for unmanned aircraft into the national airspace. As unmanned aircraft are becoming more ubiquitous in our world - safety, reliability, and proven research must coexist.

Every day new use case scenarios and research opportunities arise based around the hard work accomplished by this incredible workforce. Only time will tell how these new technologies and innovations will shape our world.

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Young French Polynesian Girl Feeding Sharks Leftovers Of Her Lunch (Fish And Rice)

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