Shape to rest the balloon and the gondola in. They were looking for a bowl area, not only to spread out the balloon on the ground, but also that natural bowl shape protects the gondola the first couple thousand feet as it goes up. They scoured all of north america for a place. They had a couple of different decisions that they could have made, places they could have chosen. And essentially they chose rapid city because of how kind the people were, because of how welcoming we are. The perfect shape of the bowl was nice, too, but it did come down to the people of the area. That was the reasoning behind choosing it. The first attempt happened in 1934. There were three men on the first flight. It was captain Orval Anderson, major william kepner, and captain albert stevens. What happened was they got into the gondola and they went up and they hit about 60,000 feet. And they think the friction between the metal and the canvas of the balloon ignited the hydrogen that was inside the balloon. A
The First Time Since 2011, we take you to the Glenn Research center in cleveland. Nasa glenn is primarily a research and technology center. We are not really the Mission Center. We work with the Mission Center in goddard, maryland, which does science missions. We work with jpl, which is done in california for the deep space mission, as well as the Johnson Space center in texas, which does man missions. We provide some of the systems that will fit into that mission, but we are not the Overall Mission providers. We are at nasas john Glenn Research center in cleveland, ohio. We are the third oldest of the nasa centers. We broke ground on january 3, 1941. We predate nasa by a little under 18 years. Naca, which extends for the National Advisory committee for aeronautics, was founded in 1915, in the infancy of aviation in this country to study this new technology and figure out how we can harness it for economic, military use. But prior to this center, they had really only focused on general
Explosion of a small propane tank at 415 in the morning. We heard an explosion in the fire just burst out of the building. All i heard was a big bang. And it was just, it made it loud because of the warehouse echo. Mayor sylvia zahn had just arrived at work. She helped to evacuate other workers at nearby buildings. It was scary but i had to act fast and call 911. Workers say what was a small fire quickly spread and in less than five minutes engulfed the building with thick black smoke. Shooting out of the roof, it was big and it was hot. Really up in my face. Felt the heat. Flames shut up about 100 feet into the sky. Right now we are dealing with surround and ground, we are getting this from all sides, it is too dangerous for our members to be in there. Two fire votes is water to prevent the flames from jumping to the ss Jeremiah Obrien Floating Museum which is docked next to the warehouse. It is my professional opinion that without the fire we would have lost the Jeremiah Obrien. 4 re
We work with the Mission Center in goddard, maryland, which does science missions. We work with jpl, which is done in california for the deep space mission, as well as the Johnson Space center in texas, which does man missions. We provide some of the systems that will fit into that mission, but we are not the Overall Mission providers. We are at nasas John Glenn Research Center in cleveland, ohio. We are the third oldest of the nasa centers. We broke ground on january 3, 1941. We predate nasa by a little under 18 years. Naca, which extends for the National Advisory committee for aeronautics, was founded in 1915, in the infancy of aviation in this country to study this new technology and figure out how we can harness it for economic, military use. But prior to this center, they had really only focused on general aeronautics. They had not really done anything with aircraft engines. They had been seeing what they were doing in europe and found that they were way ahead of us when it came t
That goes beyond the culture of the area. We are talking about the strata owl and theatob stratoballoon flight. Rapid city area is the home of the first spaceflight. What the National Geographic and u. S. Army air corps did is Work Together to make this happen and they wanted to find a natural shape to wrap the balloon and gondola in. They were looking for an area to spread out the balloon on the ground and also the natural bowl shaped to protect the gondola for the first couple thousand. Eet as it goes up they scoured all of north america and they had a couple different decisions. They chose rapid city because of how kind the people were and how welcoming we are. Nice butct shape was it did come down to the people of the area. That was the reasoning behind choosing it. In 1934. Happened there were three men on that first flight. Captain orville anderson, major william, and captor out captain albert stevens. And got into the gondola went up 60,000 feet. They think that the friction bet