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Monday, June 05, 2006

A brief post

It was Spaceman Axdahl’s first day at the Advanced Engineering Environments branch located at NASA’s mother location, Langley Research Center.

My head a-splode.

They stressed that they’re willing to give us an all expense paid trip to Club Fed if we “export” any privileged information, but I’m sure I can at least tell you what my group is doing for the next ten weeks.  

  1. Develop a test bed that involves one aircraft autonomously following another at close range, which has implications for the automated refueling (e.g. an automated tanker fueling an automated aircraft).

  1. Deal with the radiation hazards of space, for example an optimal balance between a module’s shielding coverage with weight.

  1. Develop an explanation for pectoris excavatum (see Google)…for the children.

4 Comments:

Kalani said...

All the hot nerds are in Langley... time for a road trip.

6/06/2006 3:57 AM  
Kristen said...

Sounds like a blast!

6/06/2006 3:47 PM  
Andrew said...

Kalani, you live in Hawaii right? I know you guys have the H1, H2, and H3, and even recently got the H4 (ferry I think, right). However, these are not interstates and it would be pretty tough to get to the Mainland in a car, unless they build a super H5 that goes from Hawaii across the Pacific!! Maybe one of Erik's engineering buddies could conjure something like that.

Erik, sounds like a fun project, when you going to be back in Minnesota??

6/06/2006 6:49 PM  
Kalani said...

You mean Langley isn't in Hawaii?!?

6/06/2006 8:35 PM  

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