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Pittsburgh native serves aboard Navy warship in Mayport
For Full Story: https://navyoutreach.blogspot.com/2024/05/pittsburgh-native-serves-aboard-navy.html By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tracey Bannister, Navy Office of Community Outreach MAYPORT, Fla. – Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Templin, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, serves aboard USS Lassen, a U.S. Navy warship operating out of Mayport, Florida. Templin graduated from Shaler Area High School in 2017.The skills and values needed to succeed in the…
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Pittsburgh native completes tour as commanding officer of Delbert D. Black
Cmdr. Jeremiah Chase relieved Cmdr. Adam Stein, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as commanding officer of USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) during a change of command ceremony held today, at Naval Station Mayport, Florida. The crew of the guided-missile destroyer welcomed a new commander as they prepare for another period of underway operations. The warship recently returned from a…
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Pittsburgh native serves at U.S. Navy Helicopter Squadron in Japan
For Full Story: https://navyoutreach.blogspot.com/2024/04/pittsburgh-native-serves-at-us-navy.html By Navy Office of Community Outreach NAVAL AIR FACILITY ATSUGI, Japan – Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathaniel Serkov, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, serves in the U.S. Navy as a member of a helicopter squadron forward deployed to Japan. Serkov graduated from Fox Chapel High School in 2020. The skills and values needed to succeed in the…
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Pittsburgh native serves in the South China Sea aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt
SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 8, 2024) U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Lyndon Schwartz, from Pittsburgh, secures helicopter blade storage containers in the hangar bay aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), March 8, 2024. Theodore Roosevelt, flagship of Carrier Strike Group Nine, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of…
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U. S. Steel Makes Strategic Investment in Pittsburgh-Based Autonomous Warehousing Pioneer — Freespace Robotics
-United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) (“U. S. Steel”) today announced a strategic investment in Pittsburgh-based Freespace Robotics, a pioneering manufacturer of robotic storage and retrieval systems that are in demand by warehouses worldwide. This investment will help Freespace hire and retain local talent as well as recruit others into the region. “Investing in Freespace Robotics is another way we’re…
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Blood Donors Urged to Spring into Action in March,
Nonprofit Vitalant is shining a light on the urgent need for blood donors with a special solar eclipse-themed thank-you gift to all who answer the call. Donors who come to give March 3-16 will receive an email to claim free solar eclipse glasses and an exclusive T-shirt while supplies last ahead of the April event, plus: Donors March 3-31 will be automatically entered…
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NASA Science, Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Concludes
The first flight of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery service carrying agency science and technology, as well as other customer payloads intended for the Moon, has come to an end. After 10 days and 13 hours in space, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One made a controlled re-entry on Earth over open water in the South Pacific at approximately 4:04 p.m. EST on…
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Peregrine’s First In-Space Photograph, with Updates
Update #5We’ve received the first image from Peregrine in space! The camera utilized is mounted atop a payload deck and shows Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) in the foreground. The disturbance of the MLI is the first visual clue that aligns with our telemetry data pointing to a propulsion system anomaly.Nonetheless, the spacecraft’s battery is now fully charged, and we are using…
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In a Pair of Firsts, Pittsburgh Heads to the Moon on a Brand New ULA Vulcan Rocket
Carrying NASA scientific instruments as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander launched on United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan rocket at 2:18 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Peregrine has about a 46-day journey to reach the lunar surface. Once on the Moon, NASA instruments will study the lunar exosphere,…
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Pittsburgh Travel Showcase™ Presented by AAA Travel
The Pittsburgh Travel Showcase™ returns this year, and it’s bigger and better than ever! There will be MORE exhibitors, MORE destinations, MORE savings, MORE presentations and MORE AAA Travel Advisors to get enthusiastic travelers started on their next big journey. It’s a global travel extravaganza spanning all seven continents unlike any other! The seventh annual Showcase, which is the Region’s…
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