Good morning.
Wednesday brings showers and thunderstorms to the Whippet City, mostly in the morning. We’ll have a high of eighty-four and light west winds at 5 to 10 mph.
It’s the twelfth anniversary of September 11th, and the New York Times website has an archive with the headline reporting on the attacks of that day.
Private space travel advances, and on
Sept. 5, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) “Enterprise” successfully carried out its second supersonic test flight, reaching a maximum altitude of 69,000 feet. The flight was notable as being the first test flight that included the entire flight profile, only at a lower altitude — in 2014, SS2 will launch fee-paying space tourists 360,000 ft (approx 68 miles) to the edge of space, an altitude known as the Kármán line. The flight appears to have been a complete success.
For Wednesday, here’s a Scientific American trivia question about prizes. (Clicking the question below takes you to the answer on the SciAm website.)