Hampton VA union members honor colleagues, veterans lost to COVID-19
and last updated 2021-04-28 22:58:59-04
HAMPTON, Va. - Hundreds of Department of Veterans Affairs union members from the American Federation of Government Employeesâ National VA Council, the union representing over 265,000 VA workers joined together on Wednesday afternoon for the annual Workers Memorial Day.
Workers in cities across the country, including AFGE Local 2828, assembled to honor the lives of VA workers and veterans lost to COVID-19, fight for better workplace protections and demand fair contracts. This is not the first rally and it will not be the last. We re out here for life, said Registered Nurse at the Hampton VA Medical Center, Stephanie Vick.
European Rotors and Vertical Flight Society announce partnership European Rotors Press Release | April 27, 2021
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European Rotors The VTOL Show and Safety Conference is further expanding its network. Recently announced cooperation with the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) is a major milestone as it will add additional high-level technical and scientific sessions on vertical flight technology to the conference program of the new show.
VFS will support the new show format for the rotorcraft industry, which will take place in Cologne, Germany, Nov. 16-18, 2021. It is on course to provide the industry with the long-awaited opportunity to meet in person again.
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ESA to live tweet asteroid impact exercise
For almost a decade, world asteroid experts have been meeting every two years at the Planetary Defense Conference and pretending an asteroid impact is imminent. Why? To prepare for the unlikely – but plausible – scenario in which this comes true.
For the second time in the conference s history, this major international asteroid impact exercise will be covered live via ESA social media, primarily via the @esaoperations in Twitter, highlighting the actions that might be taken by scientists, space agencies and civil protection organisations.
Planetary Defense Conference goes digital
This year’s conference is hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, UNOOSA, in cooperation with ESA and under the umbrella of the International Academy of Aeronautics (IAA). Many other space agencies and organisations are also involved, including NASA, the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and the Space Mission Planning Advis
Posted by Deborah Byrd in Human World | Space |
April 26, 2021
Follow the action as asteroid scientists, space agencies and civil protection organizations participate in a drill – simulating an asteroid impact about to happen – during this week’s virtual Planetary Defense Conference.
Fictional “potential impact hemisphere” of make-believe asteroid, 2021 PDC, via ESA/ CNEOS.
ESA said on April 26, 2021 that it will be live tweeting the asteroid impact exercise being discussed at this week’s Planetary Defense Conference, which is held virtually April 26 through 30. It looks as if NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (@AsteroidWatch) will also be following the action, and no doubt many others will be as well. This is the 7th of these conferences, which are held every two years, and it’s the second time ESA has live tweeted the conference’s primary exercise – a drill, if you will, simulating an asteroid impact about to happen – as it is unfol