Daily Newsletter: NASA and SpaceX are Now Targeting Mid-May for Historic Crew Launch

Interesting Engineering is a cutting edge, leading community designed for all lovers of engineering, technology, and science. [Interesting Engineering]() Saturday, 21 Mar 2020 [The Radio Network that Allowed Communication with Submarines]( [The Radio Network that Allowed Communication with Submarines]( [Science]( What do you do when you need to communicate with a crew of 50 sailors submerged in a submarine in an undisclosed location across the world's oceans? That was a difficult question to answer for Navy leaders in WWII.[Read More]( [Stress Eating is Causing People to Put On The "COVID 19 Pounds"]( [Stress Eating is Causing People to Put On The "COVID 19 Pounds"]( [Health]( Have you heard the expression, "Freshman 15"? It refers to the 15 pounds (7 kilograms) of weight college freshmen typically gain from stress eating during their first year of college.[Read More]( [Google Collaborates with WHO to Get Assistant to Sing People Through Washing Their Hands Properly]( [Google Collaborates with WHO to Get Assistant to Sing People Through Washing Their Hands Properly]( [News]( In light of the coronavirus outbreak, Google has collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) to release a new assistant command that sings people through washing their hands properly. This is an exciting and fun development, as hand washing is one of the most effective and crucial measures we have to take in order to stop the virus from spreading.[Read More]( [NASA and SpaceX are Now Targeting Mid-May for Historic Crew Launch]( [NASA and SpaceX are Now Targeting Mid-May for Historic Crew Launch]( [Space]( NASA and SpaceX are now targeting mid-May for the first crewed orbital launch from American soil in a mission called Demo-2. "SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch Crew Dragon, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the spacecraft, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.[Read More]( [Automated Trucks Are Coming Much Sooner Than You Think]( [Automated Trucks Are Coming Much Sooner Than You Think]( [Automotive]( Autonomous trucks are coming soon and they will be costing people thousands of jobs according to a new report by 60 minutes. It all may start with Starsky Robotics, a tech startup, that delivered 35,000 pounds of steel with nobody behind the wheel.[Read More]( [The Birth of the Atomic Age: 7 Nuclear Test Sites Abandoned Today]( [The Birth of the Atomic Age: 7 Nuclear Test Sites Abandoned Today]( [Energy & Environment]( The Atomic Age began in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, when the Manhattan Project carried out its first successful test detonation of a nuclear weapon. Only one month later, atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, devastating Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and leading to the end of World War II.[Read More]( [Tech from Nuclear Power Speeds-Up Coronavirus Detection, but Not Vice-Versa]( [Tech from Nuclear Power Speeds-Up Coronavirus Detection, but Not Vice-Versa]( [Industry]( Nuclear power. The idea conjures unsettling thoughts of annihilation, cold-war era proliferation of warheads, pernicious environmental disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi, and the ever-haunting images of radiation exposure and fallout from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[Read More]( [Interesting Engineering] [Unsubscribe]( | [Display on interestingengineering.com](