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The big day is nearly here for the team behind NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity, who've spent six years developing the first aircraft to fly on the Red Planet. On Monday (April 19), the ultra-lightweight robot will try taking off into the Martian sky and if it succeeds, this maneuver will be the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity is scheduled to take off at 3:30 a.m. EDT (0730 GMT) on Monday, but its flight controllers are wary. If Ingenuity makes it off the Martian ground, NASA will broadcast a livestream of the first test flight data as it...

Perseverance's Left Navcam Views Ingenuity During its Third Flight: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen hovering during its third flight on April 25, 2021, as seen by the left Navigation Camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›The craft’s April 25 flight was conducted at speeds and distances beyond what had ever been previously demonstrated, even in testing on Earth.NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter continues to set records, flying faster and farther on Sunday, April 25, 2021 than in any tests it went through on Earth. The helicopter took off at 1:31 a.m. EDT (4:31...

:15 a.m. — Coverage of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight 7:40 a.m. – ISS Expedition 65 In-Flight Event for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency with JAXA Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi (on the NASA TV Public-Education channel with English interpretation; on the NASA TV Media Channel in native language) 1 p.m. - Media telecon on the science of NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission. NASA Image Library album on Crew-2 science. 2 p.m. — Briefing following flight of Ingenuity Mars helicopter

Friends, It doesn’t look like Ginny Brown-Waite made a wise decision by stepping down on the last day of the filing deadline thus denying other potential GOP contenders the courtesy of running. It also looks like Richard Nugent is tainted for going along with the scheme and was given a prior heads-up to his “selection”. In the first day or two the Tea Party blogosphere exposed the Ginny/Nugent scam. Now the local main-stream media is exposing the same thing (see below). This isn’t good for Richard Nugent. It is my hope that everyone distances themselves from the tainted candidacy of...

We recently learned that our Congresswoman fell ill and is not going to seek re-election. The entire Sager for Congress campaign family continues to pray for her and her family in what is sure to be a difficult time in all of their lives.We must clarify some of the misreporting in the media over the past several days. Mrs. Brown-Waite is NOT retiring. She will complete her term through January of 2011. To say that she is “retiring” is to assume that she would have automatically won her re-election bid this election year. There are two people in particular who...

Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite tarnished her legacy and cheated her constituents and political party last week with an underhanded move that deprives Republican voters of the right to choose her successor from a strong field of candidates. The Brooksville-area Republican, who was elected to Congress in 2002, announced her retirement, citing health reasons, Friday, but only after she had secured the candidacy of her handpicked choice and he had qualified for the August primary. <snip> Such stealth maneuvering is one reason why so many people no longer trust politicians. This one is all the more insulting because it robbed voters in...

Friends, Jason Sager started up the 9-12 group in our county and has been extremely active in all of the Tea Parties of the area. Jason decided to run for Congress because he is tired of the establishment deals and because he loves the Constitution. Jason is a Navy veteran. He also has signed the 10th Amendment Center Pledge and joined the Freshmen 50. Jason qualified for the ballot back on March 23rd, yet Ginny still refused to endorse Jason when she recently stepped down. Only about 2 months ago did Ginny Brown-Waite, the liberal Republican from Brooksville, say that...

BROOKSVILLE - Jason Sager burst onto the local scene early this year when he formed a nonprofit group dedicated to the traditional values of the Founding Fathers and a strict adherence to the Constitution. Now, he plans to take his mission on a much bigger stage. On Thursday, Republican Sager announced he would run against U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville and try to capture her District 5 seat in the 2010 primary. He admits it will be a challenge but "he's in it to win it." "She has fantastic name recognition," Sager said. "I have respect for her (but) I...

He's been kicked off MySpace three times. He's got a mouth as filthy as Andrew Dice Clay's. He's cuter than the Gotti boys. And he charges upwards of $5,000 for a gig. He's not even a teenager yet. Meet Gino the Ginny, a little rascal from Arthur Avenue in The Bronx, who was bored during the blizzard of 2005 and convinced his NYU filmmaker cousin to videotape him making fun of Guidos and meatheads at nightclubs. Within four days, the controversial and somewhat offensive five-minute video of him dancing to the techno hit "Satisfaction" - titled "Gino the Ginny Hits...