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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale. Mass), Amherst.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In Beginning in the mid-1960s, the USDA had worked with NASA and labs at Purdue University and the University of Michigan to develop new ways to identify crops from high-altitude aircraft and satellites.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The event is Thursday, June 29th at 7:00pm at Town Lake Center , 721 Barton Springs Road. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,