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• WASHINGTON, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- George W. S. Abbey, former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, died Sunday, March 24, in Houston after an illness.
• During his tenure, the space shuttle flew more than 25 successful missions; the joint U.S. and Russian Shuttle-Mir Program was completed, providing important information for long-duration spaceflight," said Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA Johnson.
• Abbey had a long and storied career in human spaceflight that began with NASA in 1964 and continued beyond his retirement from the agency.
• He returned to Johnson in 1994, first as deputy director, then director, leading the development and launch of the space station.

• In 2022, it's estimated that more than 1 million Americans were forced from their homes for more than a month due to severe weather.
• And, according to NOAA , 2023 is already setting records for the most billion-dollar disasters in the first seven months of any year since 1980.
• GAF Community Matters first launched in 2020 and to date has helped repair roofs on over 3,500 homes.
• "Completing 500 roofs in the Gulf Region is a milestone for GAF Community Matters.

On April 20, 2023, a new SpaceX rocket called Starship exploded over the Gulf of Mexico three minutes into its first flight ever. SpaceX is calling the test launch a success, despite the fiery end result. As a space policy expert, I agree that the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – the term SpaceX uses when its rockets explode – was a very successful failure.

The most powerful rocket ever built

• Starship is the most powerful rocket ever developed and is designed to be fully reusable.
• The first stage is designed to get the rocket to about 40 miles (65 kilometers) above Earth.

An explosive first flight

• If it had been successful, once the first stage was spent, it would have separated from the upper stage and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
• Starship would then have continued on, eventually crashing 155 miles (250 kilometers) off of Hawaii.
• During the SpaceX livestream, the team stated that the primary goal of this mission was to get the rocket off the launch pad.
• All modern rockets have mechanisms built into them that allow engineers to safely destroy the rocket in flight if need be.

Success or failure?

• In the past two years, both South Korea and Japan have attempted to launch new rockets that also failed to reach orbit.
• Commercial companies such as Virgin Orbit and Relativity Space have also lost rockets recently.
• None of these were crewed missions, and in most of these failed launches, flight engineers purposefully destroyed the rockets after problems arose.

• The new Venom F5 Revolution Coupe is an apex predator on a racing circuit – it is the most powerful and visceral pure-combustion hypercar in the world.
• The Venom F5 Revolution Coupe is based on the Hennessey Venom F5 Coupe – the two share nearly identical DNA – yet distinguishing the Revolution Coupe from its sibling are its comprehensively reworked aerodynamics, suspension, engine cooling, and digital telemetry.
• From the outset, we designed the Venom F5 hypercar to be ultra-light and monstrously powerful, with dynamics to match.
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