Posted on 11/26/2010 3:05:12 PM PST by Nachum
They might be best known for space travel, but the folks at NASA are determined to shape the future of commercial aviation.
The agency says airliners need to be quieter, greener and more fuel-efficient.
To attain those goals, NASA handed out nearly $6 million in contracts this week to two defense industry giants: Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp.
NASAs goal is to develop technology that would enable future aircraft to burn 50% less fuel than current models, cut harmful emissions in half and shrink the geographic areas affected by obnoxious airport noise by 83%.
The agency hopes to develop concepts for airliners that could go into service by 2025.
Engineers from Lockheeds famed-Skunkworks defense enclave in Palmdale won about $3 million to develop the concept. Northrop engineers, working out of the companys space park in El Segundo, were given $2.65 million.
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And built by mooslimbs.
This is NASA’s most important mission. Aside from Muslim outreach of course...
Once proud agency reduced to doing the green hustle.
That’s going to take one huge rubber band or a bunch of solar panels.
No surprise here. Just one more of Obama’s henchmen at work. Quieter jet engines so we can better hear when the Muslim fanatics blow up their bombs on board.
Push NASA for green rockets! No CO2 output!
Good Lord save us from these Nitwits!
I’ve asked the same thing: they’re in FREAKIN OUTER SPACE, YOU MORONS! Maybe Odumbo cutting funding for NASA was a good thing after all.
As of January 5, 2009, the NASA mission statement is
“To explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.”
July 2010 NASA Administrator Charles Bolden stated that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_purpose_of_NASA
Just as an aside, I was reading an article that suggest that China's mega-size windmill farms are causing climate change by taking out significant kinetic atmospheric energy from the ecosystem.
In this case mega-size means 200,000 square Kilometers of land covered with windmills.
These amateurs are dangerous and insane, since the propagate policy without any established technological and/or valid, outcome neutral scientific authority!
What did they do with the real NASA people?
Fired them. :(
“harmful emissions”?
Now there’s a centrally-mandated presmise, if ever I saw one.
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