The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
Welcome to the 2020 National Book festival. And our conversation with two distinguished guests who join us in honor of the centennial celebrations of american author and space age visionary rate bradberry a master storyteller whose legacy exemplifies the festivals theme of american ingenuity. I am john, director of the center for bradberry studies at Indiana University school of liberal arts. Red berries encouragement led to the creation of the center will re preserve his entire home office, a lifetime of words and mementos of the papers correspondence and working library that remained in his home at the time of his passing in 2012 part his remarkable career spans seven decades. He grew up in the great depression. His family, his father had to take the family all the way from illinois to los angeles to find work in rate bradberry was never able to go to college. He developed a great style, his own unique lyric, metaphor rich style. In his own kind of subjects writing fantasy, weird tal
Warning. Really watching the gusty northerly to northeasterly winds throughout the entire workweek. Looking at the daytime highs in to the mid80ss. Low 09s for concord and the mid to upper 70s to low 80s for around the bay and looking at mid to upper 60s along the coast. Hour by hour on future cast as we go through the week tracking those winds coming up in just a few minutes. For now lets check in with traffic. I havent got the confirmation that the meters lights are uno you but we are seeing brake lights as we work westbound into San Francisco. The bulk of the delay around that 880 overpass and up the incline. A slow ride as you head westbound into San Francisco this morning. We have a slow ride on the westbound side of 580 out of tracy in to the pass with your travel times now 40 minutes to go from 205 toward 680. Im tracking brake light as long the freeway southbound near oak port as you head there. We had a trouble spot off to the side and looks like traffic is slow in that area.
Is still a string night sky is an ever rarest sight for most people on the planet the night looks more like this. We hear means can shield us selves from too much artificial light. The clones and animals especially insects are defenseless against Light Pollution we meet someone whos trying to help them the 1st night Protection Officer in a german city. On this autumn evening Sabrina Frank goes out looking for sources of Light Pollution in her home studio folder in central germany she discovers a brightly illuminated plane tree on the university campus. This gets me reading annoyed people forget that trees have a biological rhythm to. The one in the light still has all its leaves while the one next to it is bad some call that. Too much artificial light has convinced the tree its still summer pronk is germanys 1st socalled night Protection Officer she goes around with a light meter measuring and recording the outdoor illumination 5 locks as the minimum intensity required here for squares
And beethoven is for. Beethoven is for everyone. Beethoven 2022 the 50th anniversary here on d w. Its the worlds 3rd largest industry but that was before the cove in 1000 pandemic brought tourism to a screeching halt. Thats been especially hard for europe the worlds number one travel destination in years past tourism brought regular surpluses to european budgets. Border shutdowns or restrictions have shown just how many jobs are dependent on foreign visitors and its not Just Airlines and Tourism Companies but also hotels cafes and businesses all dependent on bustling travel. But with the full coffers of the past also growing tensions across europe higher living costs gentrification and frustrations for locals in many cities like here in barcelona but also venice and amsterdam. Ever bounce back to its pretend to make highs and could this extended offseason be an opportunity to rethink travel for the future. Hello and welcome to. M c. Its good to have you with us. Maybe a double edged sw