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...wasn’t just the glamour—I wanted to go to Romania to see where my parents grew up. But the reality of the trip didn’t hit me until I found myself aboard the good ship Delta, noshing on the absurd amount of snacks that my obscenely over-prepared mother had brought...
...that whole mess. Rather than rely on common combustible fuel, it uses xenon gas, a comparatively light 937 lbs. (425 kg) of it loaded into a compact 72-gal. (273 L) tank. A jolt of electricity energizes the gas, causing xenon ions to shoot out the back of the ship at 77,000 m.p.h. (124,000 km/h). A stream of charged atoms has somewhat less oomph than a burst of fire--less force than the weight of a single piece of paper, in fact--but over time it adds up. "It's acceleration with patience," says Rayman. "In the four...
...matter what the ship eventually reveals about Vesta and Ceres, NASA believes a successful mission could help establish ion technology as the propulsion system of choice for any mission in which the need for fuel is high and the need for speed is low. "Because of ion propulsion," says Rayman, "Dawn can explore the last unexplored worlds in the solar system." Not bad on a single small tank...
...show is also stark and up front about the cost of years of war--starker, in a way, because the focus is on the families left behind. Pamela (Brigid Brannagh)--whose husband is about to ship off for duty--becomes a surrogate mother to keep the family afloat (a reminder of how stretched military families often are). Roland (Sterling K. Brown) deals with his returned-vet wife's drinking and post-traumatic stress disorder. Denise (Catherine Bell) waits anxiously after her husband's Blackhawk crashes in Iraq. Only one spouse goes to war, the show says, but the whole family...
When it comes to making business decisions, you want to be surrounded by people you can trust. My mom always said to trust your gut, and my ship is definitely going in the right direction...