July 5 (NAP) -- The CH-53K King Super Stallion has completed its first phase of test flights from West Palm Beach, Fla. to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD. as it transitions to its next test phase, Lockheed Martin announced on Wednesday. The flight was over 800 miles with a total flight time of six hours and is the first of a planned series of long-range flight tests … [Read more...]
Florida man tries to update registration sticker with marker
The Florida Highway Patrol shared a photo of a man's crude attempt to update his vehicle registration sticker manually using a permanent marker. The tweet from the FHP Orlando account shows a license plate tag sticker where someone had used a permanent marker to try to change the expiration date from "02-17" to "02-18." Trooper Steve Montiero, who made the traffic stop, … [Read more...]
NASA launches OSIRIS Rex Rocket with success!
Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA on Thursday evening launched a space probe called OSIRIS-Rex to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid and -- in a US space first -- bring the sample back to Earth. "NASA did it again!" Jim Green, Planetary Science Division director at NASA, said at a post-launch … [Read more...]