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letsdothis3 ago

12 minutes from the Transwestern Road Bridge is United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station

The United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS), is an astronomical observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. It is the national dark-sky observing facility under the United States Naval Observatory (USNO).[1] NOFS and USNO combine as the Celestial Reference Frame[2] manager for the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

The United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station celebrated its 50th anniversary of the move there from Washington, D.C. in late 2005.[6] Dr. John Hall, Director of the Naval Observatory's Equatorial Division from 1947, founded NOFS. Dr. Art Hoag became its first director in 1955 (until 1965); both later were to also become directors of nearby Lowell Observatory.[7] NOFS has had 6 directors since 1955; its current and 6th director is Dr. Paul Shankland.

Lowell Observatory History

Optical Interferometer underground at Lowell https://imgur.com/a/sqR8vUY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Observatory

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States, with a primary mission[1] to produce Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)[2] for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense. Located in Northwest Washington, D.C. at the Northwestern end of Embassy Row, it is one of the pre-1900 astronomical observatories located in an urban area; at the time of its construction, it was far from the light pollution thrown off by the (then-smaller) city center. Former USNO director Gernot M. R. Winkler initiated the "Master Clock" service that the USNO still operates,[3] and which provides precise time to the GPS satellite constellation run by the United States Air Force. The USNO performs radio VLBI-based positions of quasars with numerous global collaborators, in order to produce Earth Orientation parameters.

Aside from its scientific mission, a house located within the Naval Observatory complex serves as the official residence of the Vice President of the United States.

President John Quincy Adams, who in 1825 signed the bill for the creation of a national observatory just before leaving presidential office, had intended for it to be called the National Observatory.

USNO continues to maintain its dark-sky observatory, NOFS, near Flagstaff, Arizona, which also now oversees the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer.[25] The Alternate Master Clock, mentioned above, also continues to operate at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.

Schriever Air Force Base (Schriever AFB) is a base of the United States Air Force located approximately 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado

This Air Force Base is named in honor of General Bernard Adolph Schriever, who pioneered in the development of the American ballistic missile programs. It is the home of the 50th Space Wing of the Air Force Space Command, and this base provides command and control for over 170[1] Department of Defense warning, navigational, and communications satellites. Also housed at Schriever AFB are the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center and the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center.

Bernard Adolph Schriever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Adolph_Schriever

In 2004, the Space Foundation awarded General Schriever its highest honor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Foundation

Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Space Foundation's headquarters houses Space Foundation team offices, the Ackerman Conference Center and the Space Foundation Discovery Center, which comprises the Northrop Grumman Science Center featuring Science On a Sphere, the El Pomar Space Gallery and the Lockheed Martin Space Education Center. The Space Foundation also has an office in Washington, D.C., and representatives in Texas and Florida.

The Space Foundation delivers PreK-20 student programs in laboratory, classroom and after-school settings. Programs include STEM, social studies, history, the arts and literature and are available to individual classes, school districts, public and private school, colleges and universities offering education curriculum and homeschool organizations.

The Space Foundation annually presents the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award ..in 2013, that award went to Bill Nye the Science Guy and chief executive officer of the Planetary Society

Planetary Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planetary_Society

The Planetary Society is an American internationally active, non-governmental, nonprofit foundation. It is involved in research, public outreach, and political advocacy for engineering projects related to astronomy, planetary science, and space exploration. It was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman,[1] and has about 60,000 members from more than 100 countries around the world.

..In addition to public outreach, The Planetary Society also sponsors projects that will "seed" further exploration. Two of the highest profile programs are Lightsail and LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment). Lightsail is a series of three solar sail experiments.[4] LightSail-1 is expected to piggyback on a future NASA mission.[5] In June 2005, the Society launched the Cosmos 1 craft to test the feasibility of solar sailing, but the rocket failed shortly after liftoff

Key people: Louis Friedman, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Bill Nye.. Remember this?

My Sex Junk - Rachel Bloom - Bill Nye Saves The World