A futuristic vessel soars like an aircraft across the electric blue Pacific at more than 100 knots, carrying 25 exhilarated Sailors to a destination in the fraction of the time of any other boat in the fleet. Of course this currently isn’t possible, however, researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are working on the…
USS George Washington Travels 52,000 Miles
Aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) departed Japan, May 18, and will complete a 52,064-mile, seven-month voyage to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Dec. 17, after serving seven years as the U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier in Yokosuka, Japan. Washington will return to Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va., in 2017 for a mid-life…
NASA ‘Touches-Down’ on USS Theodore Roosevelt
Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), along with a distinguished visitor from NASA, answered a long-distance phone call from the International Space Station (ISS), Jan. 26. READ: Naval EXPO Coming to Washington D.C. NASA astronauts Navy Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, Air Force Col. Eric Boe, U.S. Marine Corps Col. Randy Bresnik,…
USS Anchorage Completes NASA Orion Mission
San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) successfully completed recovery operations of the NASA Orion crew module, forward bay cover, and parachutes, Dec 5. VIEW: Photos of the Day: Navy Retrieves Orion Spacecraft from Sea The Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) recovery is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to…
Navy closer to landing UAV on aircraft carrier
USS HARRY S. TRUMAN, At Sea (NNS) — A team from the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System program office tested communication software for the Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) program aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during its sea trials, July 7-10. The UCAS-D program, based at the Naval…