The site also has the benefit of being publicly accessible. The Monitor's View An invisible force in the Israel-Hamas war What better way to say "SpaceX is here" than a 156-foot-tall (47.5 m) rocket stage standing vertically on its four landing legs? The one-story building is somewhat nondescript from the outside. SpaceX's Mission Control is in California (see below), but its control center, where the Falcon 9 launch and landing was monitored and where Musk was present on that day, is located just outside the gate to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia, where it could be on display beside NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery.īut as the National Air and Space Museum displays the history of flight, a case could be made that the first orbital-class rocket to demonstrate vertical takeoff and landing would fit among the other aerospace artifacts it curates. And there is the matter of "space" - the museum's main building on the National Mall is already rather full, so even if it wanted it, the stage might have to go to the institution's extension, the Steven F. The Smithsonian does have an acquisition process and so it is not known if the institution would accept the stage, if offered by SpaceX. So it would almost mimic the history made this month, returning to the "launch site," if the landed Falcon 9 stage was donated to the National Collection. and parked it outside the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. When Musk unveiled his very first rocket, the Falcon 1, in December 2003, he trucked the seven-story-tall booster to Washington, D.C. Is anywhere safe? The National Collection Safety ‘The ground is shaking’ in southern Gaza. SpaceX is leasing the pad- the former site of Apollo and space shuttle launches - to begin flying astronauts aboard its Falcon 9 rockets topped with Dragon capsules to the International Space Station, as well as its commercial Falcon Heavy boosters. Three days after it touched down on SpaceX's "Landing Zone 1," a converted Air Force launch pad, the stage was lowered onto its side and loaded onto a multi-wheeled flatbed for the short trip to NASA's Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. It is the first one we brought back," explained Musk in a call with reporters. "I think we will probably keep this one on the ground, just because it is kind of unique. īut according to Elon Musk, SpaceX's billionaire CEO and chief technology officer, that's not the plan for this, its first-ever recovered stage. SpaceX intends to refurbish and re-fly its stages, ultimately getting to when it can simply refuel and launch them again, significantly reducing the cost of access to space. The commercial spaceflight company's recovery of the first stage, after launching 11 communication satellites to orbit, demonstrated the first part of its future plans for reusability. 21 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. That's a question that SpaceX now faces given the historic landing of its Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on Dec. What do you do with a 15-story-tall space artifact? An official for a Cleveland-area school district recently told the Monitor that “taking the time to actually listen and absorb and immerse ourselves into different cultures … has been really exciting.” In our greatest challenges are often our greatest opportunities for growth, if we are inclined to accept them. And we wrote here about a “Friendsgiving” among Jews and Muslims at Carnegie Mellon University. Today’s editorial looks at how to reset the free speech conversation on campus. And from the increasingly liberal orthodoxy of many universities to conservative book-banning, the bedrock American commitment to free speech is under threat.Yet there is another way. Cancel culture reigns, aiming to punish rather than to understand. Her comments were seen as too soft in condemning calls for a genocide against Jews. Schools and universities are facing an incredibly difficult situation, as we’ve written. It went so badly that the president of the University of Pennsylvania resigned this weekend. university presidents about antisemitism on campus. Some of you might have heard about the recent congressional hearing with top U.S.
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