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Weatherford Stafford Airport Celebrates New Terminal, Weatherford Daily News Nov 2022

Weatherford Stafford Airport Celebrates New Terminal, Weatherford Daily News

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The City of Weatherford and Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission will host a special public celebration and ribbon cutting of the new Weatherford Stafford Airport Terminal.


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Astronaut Snoopy’S 50-Plus Year History With Nasa, Weatherford Daily News Nov 2022

Astronaut Snoopy’S 50-Plus Year History With Nasa, Weatherford Daily News

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"Unknown to many, Snoopy has been working with NASA since the late 1950s"


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Stafford Highlights - Famed Astronaut Returns For 40th Anniversary Of Apollo Mission, Weatherford Daily News Nov 2022

Stafford Highlights - Famed Astronaut Returns For 40th Anniversary Of Apollo Mission, Weatherford Daily News

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Above, Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford speaks during the anniversary event in Weatherford December 7, 2012, of Apollo 17.

At top right, Michael, Thomas and Stas Stafford are pictured with Cosmonaut Valery Kubasov during the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 17 December 7, 2012.


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Local Astronaut May Command U.S.-Russian Flight (Reprint From 1972), Weatherford Daily News Nov 2022

Local Astronaut May Command U.S.-Russian Flight (Reprint From 1972), Weatherford Daily News

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EDITOR’S NOTE: this story first appeared in the November 2, 1972, edition of the Weatherford Daily News, 50 years ago today, about Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford’s chance to commence a U.S.-Russian space flight.


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Advancements Of Autonomous Applications, Jessica Massey, Jeremy Evert Apr 2022

Advancements Of Autonomous Applications, Jessica Massey, Jeremy Evert

Student Research

This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant Agreement No. 80NSSC20M0114 issued through Oklahoma Space Grant Consortium. This research is in support of the Fire Dawgs competition team for this year’s SpeedFest competition at Oklahoma State University. This NASA OK Space Grant Consortium funded competition team will compete in the Charlie Class, where an autonomous vehicle will navigate a course and put out a fire.

Robots and self-driving vehicles are useful, especially for hazardous jobs, such as firefighting. The use of high-tech sensing technology is a small part of how self-driving vehicles …


Understanding The Nonlinear Dynamics Governing Vertical-Lift Vehicles With Variable-Speed, Fixed Rotors, Stephanie Vavra, Micah Busboom, Aleea Stanford, Keegan Moore Apr 2022

Understanding The Nonlinear Dynamics Governing Vertical-Lift Vehicles With Variable-Speed, Fixed Rotors, Stephanie Vavra, Micah Busboom, Aleea Stanford, Keegan Moore

UNL Student Research Days Posters, Undergraduate

Problem: Traffic significantly limits travel in urban areas. • The NASA Urban Air Mobility Project is developing an air taxi as an alternative mean of transportation (Fig. 1).

Challenge: Operating rotors at different frequencies may cause the cabin to vibrate at high amplitudes. Such effects are currently unknown.

Objective: Understand the effect of variable speed rotors on passenger comfort.

From the reduced-order modeling simulations, it can be assumed that counteracting the rotor speed in-balances can reduce the displacement and vibrations experienced at the center of the wing. In other words, should a rotor not maintain its optimal operation speed, reducing …