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Snow this evening will taper off to light snow late. Low 18F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 100%. 3 to 5 inches of snow expected. Updated: April 19, 2021 @ 9:58 am
Historic Mars helicopter mission, supported by Colorado companies, earns praise after successful flight
The helicopter reached a height of just 10 feet, but managed to hover in the thin atmosphere for 30 seconds before landing. Author: Tom Roeder (Denver Gazette) Published: 1:12 PM MDT April 19, 2021 Updated: 1:12 PM MDT April 19, 2021
COLORADO, USA The first flight of an aircraft on Mars was praised Monday morning by the Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a drone managed by NASA crews on Earth that completed its mission thanks to work from a pair of Colorado companies, took off at 4:46 a.m. for a brief hop from the Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars on Feb. 18. The drone used the rover as a communications relay to convey data to Earth during its flight.
Gazette staff My mind was just full of chaos, Megyeri said. Everyone, all of our employees were super scared. We were scared. We didn t know what doing business during a pandemic looked like. We literally took it day by day. And everyday we were just trying to solve a series of dilemmas. It was rough. It was super rough. I had the feeling of the unknown. And being super scared.
As a successful restaurant owner for 40 years, Megyeri said she missed the people the loyal customers who dined daily at their businesses. That was the hardest part, is not having customers sit at our tables, she said. I just remembered putting the chairs up on the tables, going, oh my gosh, this is so ugly. How can we make this work better? What are we going to do with all these tables and chairs? I missed our customers being able to sit in our dining room.
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Overcast. A few flurries or snow showers possible. Low 28F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Updated: April 12, 2021 @ 4:43 pm
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Guests read about the history of Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station as they tour the tunnel leading into the bunker during the 50th anniversary celebration of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The Air Force station, owned and operated by Air Force Space Command, began operating Feb. 6, 1967, as the NORAD Combat Operations Center.