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Airline passengers who buy a pre-approved security pass could have their credit histories and property records examined as part of the government s plan to turn over the Registered Traveler program to private companies, federal officials say.The Regis
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stanley cup he program s details, which were being announced Friday. The program will begin June 20.Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley has said the program s benefits could include passengers not having to take their shoes or coats off or removing their laptops from their cases.The program is intended to let frequent air passengers avoid delays and to free up security screeners to focus on other travelers.The TSA already has tested Registered Traveler at five airports beginning in the summer of 2004 through September 2005. Now it wants private companies to run the program, which was popular with frequent travelers. Before the companies are allowed to sell Registered Traveler cards, they have to demonstrate that they can somehow figure out whether applicants are members of terrorist sleeper cells by plowing through bank records, insurance data and other personal information available commercially mdash; or by
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Last week a Russian rocket called Proton-M exploded over a spaceport in Kazakhstan just seconds after it launched. Turns out, we can blame some dumb humans for the blast鈥攊nvestigators found t
stanley cup hat the rocket angular velocity sensors had been installed upside down.
https://gizmodo/a-russian-rocket-just-exploded-over-kazakhstan-as-it-l-643668107 According to a report, when sifting through the wreckage, investigators discovered that
stanley water bottle these key parts鈥攃alled DUS鈥攚ere put into place incorrectly, even though they had arrows on them showing which way was up and which was down. The result The flight control system was getting the wrong information about the rocket position, and when it tried to correct, it swung out of control and exploded. Apparently, the person culpable for the debacle was an inexperienced technician, and his work hadn ;t been double-checked, the report said. And even if it had launched successfully, there probably would have been more problems because the wonky DUS still haven ;t explained what appeared to be an engine fire when the rocket took off. Fortunately, the only casualties were three navigation satellites; no humans on the ground were injured. But it not th
stanley vaso e first time a Proton-M rocket has malfunctioned鈥攊t happened once in 2007 and again in 2010. So while we can ;t be sure if we won ;t see an accident again, at least one engineer has probably learned a very embarrassing lesson. [RussianSpaceWeb via AmericasSpace]
