Major General Margaret H. Woodward

Major General Margaret H. Woodward

The first woman to command an air combat campaign, Major General Margaret H. Woodward, started off in the military as a combat instructor. After graduating from Arizona State University, she earned advanced degrees at the National War College in Washington and at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. When she entered the U.S. Air Force in 1983, women weren't allowed to fly. So instead, she trained other pilots after earning her own pilot wings.

Soon however, she moved on. After being a trainer, she worked on a KC-135 tanker, refueling other planes. She accumulated around 4,000 hours of flight time working as a refueler in the 1989 invasion of Panama, the 1999 in combat against Serbian forces in Kosovo and commanded the refueling missions during Iraq and Afghanistan.

For a time she was the Secretary of Defense, commanding the pilots of Air Force One. but anyhow, another topic for another day. Now she's the leading commander of the air strike force over Libya. In the 11 days after the she was positioned, U.S. aircraft in Libya have flown 1,400 sorties. They've only lost 1 plane to equipment issues, and they ejected and returned safely. For being the first woman to command an air strike force, she's doing spectacular.

oh and I got my information from here.

Space Having Dimmed Effects on Drugs?

So i read an article today about space and drugs (the legal kind) which you can read here.

Anyhow, So after reading this (being one of the very few articles that ever interest me) I thought about blogging about. so i did and here it is. So if you're to lazy to follow the link and read it, i'll sum it up for you. Basically what went down was that A research team (didn't say where it was from, so i'm going to assume it was from the Johnson Space Center) sent four boxes of drugs containing 35 different medications up to the ISS (International Space Station). They also kept four identical boxes of the same drugs at the Johnson Space Center. Then at periodic times, people on the ISS sent them back. One stayed only 13 days, another stayed for 28 months. That's 2 years! well. technically 2 years and 4 months, but whose counting? Anyway the peeps doing the research found that the drugs had a varying decrease in effectiveness. Most by the end didn't pass the potency requirement given by the US's Pharmaceutic group. But there is one upside to this. the drugs that are prone to oxidation, like adrenaline, vitamin c and vitamin a, would do well in the carbon dioxide rich environment. which i believe i failed to mention why the drugs were even degrading in the first place. So there are multiple reasons why these drugs are degrading as they are, varying from radiation to microgravity to changes in humidity and temperature. I hope you enjoyed this! if not then shenanigians.

~W

Racism and stuff like that

Hell it's a very broad topic. but i watched a video that got me thinking (check it out here), why is there racism. Just in general? I dunno but I thought the video was kinda funny... oh well. Until Next Time!

~W