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In This Issue: Landing on the Moon | Cisco Meraki MX64 Security Appliance | How to Repair Cut Fiber | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Landing on the Moon
Greetings and Happy Monday!
Hopefully this week NASA’s Artemis 1 should be launching and headed toward the moon. This will be the first moon mission that will have occurred in my lifetime (the last one I believe was Apollo 17 in 1972). Back in elementary school, the teachers showed clips of the moon landing and also John F. Kennedy’s “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space effort from 1962“. I keep ruminating on a phrase in that address “We choose to go to the Moon”. The whole speech is inspiring, but the ending was very impactful –
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.”
This first unmanned Artemis mission is essentially a test run for the other Artemis. Artemis 2 will send people around the moon similar to today’s launch and in 2024 and hopefully, if all goes well Artemis 3 will have people (including the first woman) landing on the lunar surface in 2025.
I think I’m more excited for my children in the prospect of landing on the moon. I want my daughters to see that with enough energy and effort the seemingly insurmountable can be overcome. I look at my daughters and hope that they will be inspired by the launches (whether that inspiration leads them to science or art, or whatever endeavor they choose) – and that they are inspired by the possibilities.
Cris
Product Spotlights & Updates
The Meraki MX64-HW security device is an excellent solution for small branch locations with support for up to 50 users, 250 Mbps of stateful firewall throughput, and 200 Mbps of advanced security throughput. The MX is 100% cloud-managed, so installation and remote management is truly zero-touch, making it ideal for distributed branches, campuses, and data center locations.
Learning Center Article – How to Repair Cut Fiber
As we all know, fiber optic lines are complicated, powerful, and delicate. They provide incredibly powerful communication signals with high bandwidths and great reliability. But, because they are so delicate, they can be damaged.
When damage occurs, you can either repair it or replace it, and the former option is much cheaper. Here are the steps to repair a cut fiber cable.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- NASA delayed the debut of its towering moon rocket Monday after issues emerged during countdown, postponing the launch from the Kennedy Space Center.
- The Biden administration will end its giveaway of Covid-19 at-home tests on Friday because of insufficient congressional funding.
- A Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant in Lansing, Michigan, became the chain’s first location to vote to unionize.
- He may not be playing football for Detroit anymore, but quarterback Matthew Stafford is still on Detroit’s pizza team. The Super Bowl-winning Los Angeles Rams player will appear in a commercial for Little Caesars. The ad, which airs Monday, is set at a training camp with employees and football fans trying to secure a Little Caesars pizza.