Two or three weeks ago, the interns toured the SLOPE facility (something to do with Simulated Lunar O??? P??? Environment). It's where they test vehicles and, as you can see, tires for use on the moon and Mars or even Venus. The tire I'm behind on the left is an exact replica of the titanium Lunar Rover tire used 50 years ago on the moon. Besides not wanting to deal with pressurized tires in space, rubber would not be able to survive the radiation and extreme temperatures experienced in space. On the right is the next generation metallic spring tire being developed by Goodyear to support NASA's future missions. The room we are in contains large sand boxes containing dust, sand and rocks that perfectly imitate that seen on the moon and Mars for testing of these tires and designs of the next generation of vehicles.
At the NASA Glenn Research Center, we have a special interest in the Oscars on Sunday. The daughter of one of the researchers in the Materials and Structures Division has been nominated for an Oscar for the second time in Sound Editing. She was first nominated for The Dark Night a couple years ago and is up again for her work on Inception. See her bio at the internet movie database link here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386567/ She often does her work at George Lucas' Skywalker Sound. http://www.skysound.com/bio/lora_hirschberg.html
03/02/11
Note:
She did get the Oscar.
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