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On the next night there's a clear sky overhead, look up. That's what Roy Lee Cooke, Jimmy Carroll, Quentin Wilson, Sherman Siers, Billy Rose, and Homer Hickam Jr. did in the late ?0s and it put some of them straight on the path to successful careers at NASA. This 1995 Air & Space story by aforementioned Hickam eventually became the ?0s hit movie October Sky and it charts the trajectory of a few high school boys in coal country during the beginning of the Space Race. While their peers spent time chasing cheerleaders, this ragtag crew would build rockets when they weren't in class. You'll have to read the piece to see if their garage propulsion experiments took off.
?Cole Pennington, Editor
The 737 Built Southwest, And The 737 Max Could Be Its Undoing ?The Verge
Greetings from LAX! If you spend a lot of time on airplanes, it's tough not to get a little nerdy about them. But this week I'm not here to bore you with the latest miles-and-points nonsense. No, this is much more fascinating. One of the ways that Southwest Airlines has made itself a profitable, low-cost behemoth is by streamlining as much as it can. But what happens when you go all-in on a bad bet? Bad things. Here The Verge takes a look at how the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max airplane is affecting the American carrier and what the future might hold.
?Stephen Pulvirent, Managing Editor
De Niro and Pacino Have Always Connected. Just Rarely Onscreen ?NY Times
It's 1995. Heat just hit the screens. De Niro. Pacino. That scene with the two of them in the diner meeting for the first time. If you've seen the movie, I know you remember. It was two titans at the height of their careers converging in what's normally a mundane scene ?eating at a diner ?and yet, extracting every fiber of respect, spontaneity, humor, tension, threat, and impending casualty that only a world class actor can bring to a scene. I don't care who you are, everyone needs to fake watch a gangster movie sometimes. The genre is synonymous with Deniro and Pacino. With the new movie, the Irishman, you add Martin Scorsese to the mix and now you've got a recipe for a banger. This November, Netflix comes out with Scorsese's highest budget film to date and reunites the legendary actors, alongside Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel as well. The NY Times goes into an in-depth history of De Niro and Pacino and how their current roles are generating all the Oscar buzz.
?David Aujero, Video Producer
The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive - The Atlantic
The "Millennial Lifestyle Sponsorship" is not a term I had heard before. But as a New York resident, its something I have noticed for years now. How in the heck does WeWork make money? (we now know they don't - and in a big way). Why does Uber keep offering me all these discounts? I'm certainly not upset about it, but I know this gravy train has to end eventually... (if the person at Uber who controls this sort of thing is reading my note now, please keep it coming). Check out this excellent article from Derek Thompson at The Atlantic to find out more about how profitability may require users to spend more for high-cost conveniences.
?Frank Roda, Director of Business Development
Inside Skunkworks Podcast?Lockheed Martin
Following in my general goal of getting something Blackbird-adjacent in any roundup possible, point your preferred podcast aggregator towards Lockheed Martin's in-house podcast Inside Skunkworks. This is no nerd-chat about Lockheed's famously private prototype development wing, but rather a highly produced look at various aspects of the Skunkworks from those who created it, the pilots that flew the planes, and many personalities responsible for the successes of Lockheed's most noteworthy experimental projects. If you're into advanced aviation, I dare you to press pause on this incredible podcast series, I was hooked from the first episode and cannot wait for the chance to dig into the second season.
-James Stacey, Senior Writer
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