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Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
West Virginia Wesleyan's Space Club to launch probe into space
BUCKHANNON, W. Va. (WBOY) — Students at West Virginia Wesleyan will soon get to see their work fly among the stars as part of NASA's GHOST (Grand CHallenge MesOsphere Student RockeT) rocket launch in Andoya, Norway this November. West Virginia Wesleyan College's Space Club is helping build a probe that will be sent into space during the launch. Colleges throughout West Virginia are contributing to the rocket's payload with Wesleyan's contribution being a Spectrometer and Langmuir Probe that they will use to measure the region's aurora borealis. Big Timber releasing limited time 'Thic Mint' beer Wesleyan has participated with other West Virginia schools in similar projects in the past, but this is the first time the launch will be in Norway. 'As you know, not just the President of Space Club, but someone who just loves learning about space and understanding it, I think that this project is huge, especially considering Wesleyan is such a small school,' Wesleyan Space Club President Jacob Dawson said. When Space Club isn't doing engineering and research, they also enjoy encouraging interest in science in the community. To that end, Space Club will also be hosting a Space Day for the public to have fun learning about science on March 30. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
14-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Olympic rower Jacob Dawson to become on-call firefighter
Olympic rower Jacob Dawson has said he is taking a step back from the sport to fulfil his "childhood dream" of becoming a 31-year-old, from Henley, Oxfordshire, won gold at Paris 2024 and although he hopes to remain involved in rowing, he is set to become an on-call firefighter."It has been a childhood dream of mine to be a firefighter," he said, adding his grandfather had also been in the fire service. He said suffering a blot clot on the lung in 2022, as a result of Covid-19, had given him "perspective" and it was now "someone else's turn" to compete at the top. "Before the games I'd inquired about becoming an on-call firefighter and it transpired that I wasn't going to be able to meet certain dates for pre-testing and stuff," he said."I genuinely thought, going into the games, that I wanted to carry on and keep rowing."He put his firefighter application on hold and went back to the Leander Club but once there he realised he no longer had "the fight" that some of the younger rowers had, he said. 'Never too late' Mr Dawson, who also won bronze in the Men's Eight at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics and is also a tree surgeon, said the training to be a firefighter was "different" to rowing and "probably not as demanding" as a lot of people might encouraged anyone who was thinking about becoming an on-call firefighter to give it a go. "I'm fortunate enough that my lifelong dream is a way that I can contribute to the community," he said."It's never too late." You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
