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This legendary ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ sneaker launch from Converse is about to drop: How to go forth and grab them before they’re gone

• Published: Apr. 10, 2024, 5:05 p.m.

Shop the new Converse x Dungeons & Dragons Collection when it launches on Thursday, April 11 at 10 a.m. Converse/Dungeons & Dragons/Canva

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Converse is celebrating the 50th anniversary of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ with a thematic, limited-edition collection of Chuck Taylors that can be described in just one word: fire.

The official Converse x Dungeons & Dragons launch kicks off on April 11 at 10 a.m. ET , at which time four unisex high tops , a little kids and toddler shoe and five custom “High Top by You” designs will available to shop at Converse.com, starting from $55.

According to the brand, the selection of Chuck Taylor All Star and Chuck 70s — both leather and canvas — gets into character for the world’s greatest role-playing game with “retro artwork from D&D sourcebooks, including monsters, evil wizards, and, of course, dragons.”

There are also recognizable emblems of the franchise featured throughout each silhouette, like a D20-inspired top eyelet, a Dungeons & Dragons license plate logo on the left foot and a D&D sockliner graphic with a 50th anniversary callout.

Along with the shoes, Converse will also be rolling out some apparel and accessories to complete every gamer’s head-to-toe look. You can find crewnecks , crystal ball tees , shorts and more, starting from $35.

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How the supersonic Concorde jet broke the record for the longest total solar eclipse in history

In 1973, scientists extended totality to 74 minutes by flying almost as fast as the moon's shadow was moving across Earth.

Record-breaking flight

Flying a plane into the moon's shadow during a total solar eclipse is a hot topic thanks to the upcoming solar eclipse . JSX has a dedicated eclipse flight over Dallas, and both United Airlines and Delta have long sold out tickets for scheduled flights through the path of totality on journeys from Texas to the Northeast. 

But none will come close to achieving what Concorde 001 did on June 30, 1973 , when it raced the moon's shadow along the Tropic of Cancer during a total solar eclipse . 

Flying at 55,000 feet (17,000 meters), the world's fastest supersonic jet extended the duration of totality from a maximum of 7 minutes, 4 seconds on the ground to a stunning 74 minutes.

Related: How fast will April's total solar eclipse travel?

For the seven observers from France, Britain and the U.S., the flight broke the record for the longest total solar eclipse in human history. With the supersonic jet long retired from service, Concorde's historic 1973 flight remains legendary for eclipse chasers. 

On June 30, 1973, Concorde took off from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in the Spanish Canary Islands.

The path of totality that day was about 156 miles (251 kilometers) wide where Concorde intercepted it, with the moon's shadow moving at about 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h). Concorde flew at 1,350 mph (2,200 km/h)  — Mach 2 — along the path of totality in the same direction as the moon's shadow, thereby keeping up with it as long as possible.

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The scientists on board came from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Paris Observatory, the Kitt Peak National Observatory, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Aberdeen, and the French National Center for Scientific Research. 

Concorde 001 was modified just for them, with rooftop portholes created for observation equipment. The extra-long totality allowed these scientists to study the sun's corona, its chromosphere and the intensity of the sun's light from above much of Earth's atmosphere .  

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"We intercepted the totality and stayed within it for 74 minutes before descending and landing in the African nation of Chad," Donald Liebenberg, a scientist from Los Alamos National Laboratory who was on board the flight, wrote for NBC News . "At 74 minutes, our group aboard the Concorde set a record for the amount of time spent in totality that has never been broken. It was an experience I will never forget."

Concorde took off at 1008 GMT and raced above Mauritania as the moon's shadow caught up with it. Over the next four minutes, it flew across the Sahara in Mali, Nigeria and Niger before the moon's shadow overtook it. It landed in Chad. 

In addition to experiencing the long totality, the scientists saw a seven-minute "first contact" and a 12-minute "third contact" — the beginning and end of the eclipse when viewers on the ground see a brief display of Baily's beads and the "diamond ring effect ." 

The 1973 flight wasn't the last time Concorde entered the moon's shadow during a total solar eclipse. Twenty-six years later, on Aug. 11, 1999 , three Concordes — one from France and two from the U.K. — entered the moon's shadow, carrying tourists, as documented by French eclipse expert Xavier Jubier . Each paid $2,400 ( $4,457 in today's dollars ), though totality lasted only four or five minutes, compared with about two minutes on the ground. However, the passengers had problems seeing totality for more than 30 seconds because of the small windows and the sun's height. 

It's a reminder that intercepting the moon's shadow in a plane isn't easy.

The 1999 trips were Concorde's last into the path of totality. After the fatal crash of Air France Flight 4590 on July 25, 2000, just after takeoff, a planned eclipse flight on June 21, 2001 , was canceled. 

The most successful eclipse flight in recent years was E-Flight 2019-MAX , which on July 2, 2019, doubled the totality duration from 4 minutes, 32 seconds to 9 minutes. On board the LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner were 43 eclipse chasers, each of whom had paid $6,750.

Eclipse flights continue to spark the imagination, but it will be a long time until it's possible to surpass Concorde 001's 1973 achievement. 

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What happens during a solar eclipse? Experts explain the awe-inspiring phenomena to expect on April 8

By David Pogue

Updated on: April 8, 2024 / 9:03 AM EDT / CBS News

Monday's total eclipse of the sun won't be just any old eclipse; it's being referred to as the Great American Eclipse, because it's going through some very populated areas of the United States. Solar eclipses actually occur every 18 months or so, but during most of them the spectacle is "wasted" on empty ocean. But this afternoon , the moon's shadow will leave 32 million Americans in 15 states briefly in the dark.

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Where is the best place to view the eclipse?

What exactly is a total eclipse?

Astronomy author and educator Ed Ting says that in a solar eclipse, the moon passes exactly between your eyes and the sun, and casts its shadow on the Earth. That shadow is only about 100 miles wide, so you have to be in a specific place to witness the solar eclipse in totality.

It's all the result of a freakish cosmic coincidence, when the moon and sun appear to be the exact same size in the sky. "The sun is 400 times bigger than the moon," said Ting. "But by happy coincidence, it is also 400 times further away. So, from our perspective they are the same size."

What can happen during a total solar eclipse?

But the thrill of an eclipse isn't just about what's overhead – it's what happens all around you as the sky darkens. "The wind sometimes starts to pick up," said Ting. "Animals get confused. The streetlights come on."

But it's not exactly like nighttime. "The sky takes on this sort of fish-scaly, shimmery quality, and you will freak out," Ting said. "You can understand why the ancients ascribe such spiritual or religious significance to eclipses, because you will feel very strange. Half of the people who see an eclipse for the first time will cry."

What preparations are being made?

If you live in the path of the eclipse, you may notice one more effect: A lot more traffic.

Cari White is the chairman of the Eclipse Oversight Committee for Jonesboro, Arkansas, where the moment of totality – complete blockage of the sun – will last 2 minutes and 17 seconds. And for that experience of totally, White said the town will briefly grow to twice its size: "One-hundred-sixty-thousand people might be in town for the eclipse, and we're very excited about it," she said. "Our police department, our fire department, city water and light, they've all been working for over a year to design a plan."

And Jonesboro is not alone: "Everywhere, all over the country, [people] are doing exactly what I've been doing. It's a big, big deal."

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How to safely view the eclipse

Looking directly at the sun can permanently damage your vision, which is why you need eye protection. Cari White's committee in Jonesboro ordered 75,000 pairs of special glasses. "We have been working for weeks to pass them out to all the schools, we've passed them out at all of the major businesses, the library, the city hall," she said. "If you don't have a pair of glasses and you live in Jonesboro, I don't know how to help ya'."

But here's something about the glasses you might not know: According to Ting, "Once totality hits, you can take the glasses off. Because there's not much light coming from the sun. Once the sun starts to come out again, you do need to remember to put your glasses back on!"

Cameras need protective filters, too. But Ting offers a classic piece of advice for would-be photographers: "See your first eclipse, photograph your second. I have seen this personally where there is an eclipse, and the person is not looking up; they're fiddling with their camera. And then, before you know it, the eclipse is gone, you never saw it – and you didn't get the picture."

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What about the weather?

Of course, all the precautions in the world won't help you if the conditions aren't right. Asked what she'll do if the weather is bad on Monday, White said, "I guess I'll cry. Don't talk to me about the bad stuff."

Fortunately, it's mostly good stuff.

"When you consider that this truly is the Great American Eclipse, because it goes through the center of the United States, it just puts you in awe," White said. "I just know that it's gonna be wonderful. And I'm gonna take it all in, every second of my two minutes, I'm gonna take it in and enjoy."

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          For more info:

• Visit Jonesboro Tourism & Visitor's Bureau website
• Follow  amateur astronomer Ed Ting on YouTube

         Story produced by Annie Iezzi. Editor: George Pozderec. 

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. He's also a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, and host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS. For 13 years, he wrote a New York Times tech column every week — and for 10 years, a Scientific American column every month.

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Women as an afterthought: Not anymore. Meet KSC's first female chief engineer

This is part of an occasional series about key space and rocket industry workers based on the Space Coast of Florida.

Near the beginning of Teresa Kinney’s career in the early 1980s, she was such a rarity as a female engineer that she recalled being out at NASA test facilities in Maryland and California and not being able to find a women's restroom.

“There just weren’t a lot of women in those roles, and it was funny – when you do some of these large tests, like large acoustic test, you find that the test facilities aren’t set up for women to be there,” said Kinney. “You say ‘I need to use the women’s room’ and they say 'We don’t have one. You can use the men’s room if you want, and we got a little sign you can hang up. Or you can just walk next door.'”

Women weren’t part of the initial building design.

A lot has changed since then for women engineering, for NASA and for Kinney.

Today, the 61-year-old is NASA’s Deep Space Logistics Team Chief Engineer — and her home base is right here at Kennedy Space Center. Out of all the chief engineers working on different NASA teams during KSC's history, Kinney is the Kennedy Space Center's first female chief engineer. To date, she is still the only female chief engineer at the facility.

Kinney oversees a team that’s 38 percent female. She might have lacked female engineering role models when she was starting out, but she didn’t lack the motivation to pave her own way. Today, she said, girls have both role models and inspiration, urging them to think differently about science and engineering.

"Originally I wasn't aiming to be a chief engineer. I thought that was a great job, but I just followed the challenging and exciting work," said Kinney.

Becoming an engineer: Kinney’s father ignited her passion for space

Kinney says her interest in space was fueled at a young age by her dad, a U.S. military man and space enthusiast. While her dad was stationed in Germany, Kinney vividly remembers her father waking her in the middle of the night to watch the Apollo 11 lunar landing on TV.

In 1975, when Kinney was in her early teens, her father brought her to Florida to see the Apollo-Soyuz mission launch from Kennedy Space Center. The mission was the first international collaboration in space — having a crewed Apollo capsule dock with a crewed Russian Soyuz.

“That inspired me. Seeing the hardware, seeing the people working on it.” Kinney said.

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Kinney on where to study engineering

When deciding on where to go to college, Kinney was given advice which she said helped her greatly: go to a school close to where you want to work. Doing so will give you a better opportunity at finding co-ops (cooperative education) in the field you are aiming to break into. Unlike internships, co-ops give students the ability to alternate between studying one semester and working a paid full-time opportunity the next.

At the time, her father just happened to be retiring to Huntsville, Alabama, the home of Marshall Space Flight Center. The stars aligned for Kinney, and she was accepted into University of Alabama, where she landed the opportunity to do co-ops with NASA in-between her studies.

Kinney graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and her years of hard work paid off when she received the opportunity to work full-time as a NASA contractor in 1984.

Starting her career as an engineer, Kinney became fascinated by how differently things behave in the environment of space.

“Once you get away from Earth, you can grow crystals in a matter of days, that will take years to grow on Earth … I can get really excited about this," Kinney said. "It’s hard, but it’s fun."

Kinney worked on the Solid Rocket Booster, Spacelab, and ISS programs as a payload analyst in the first decades of her career.

“So you say ‘okay, how can I do lots of tests on the ground, so I know what I’m going to see' and I can make sure everything’s going to hold together. I have mission success, good reliability, and safety,” Kinney said as she described her past work.

Kinney recalls her Space Shuttle work

Among Kinney's work was time spent on the space shuttle program.

FLORIDA TODAY asked Kinney about her most memorable shuttle mission, which she revealed to be STS-121, the return to flight after Columbia’s ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003 .

Space Shuttle Columbia tragically broke apart during reentry on Saturday, February 1, 2003, claiming the lives of all seven astronauts onboard. Foam from the external tank came loose and struck and damaged the underside of the shuttle's left wing during launch. When the shuttle made its fiery descent back to Earth, the heat penetrated through the damaged area.

During the accident investigation, Kinney worked on the impact debris analysis. Her team simulated the possibility of objects such as foam or metallic pieces striking the shuttle as part of an effort to understand exactly what caused the tear in the shuttle’s heat shield. The team at NASA needed to understand the sensitivity and all possible scenarios before returning the remaining shuttles to flight.

NASA’s space shuttle was retired after its last flight, STS-135, in July of 2011.

Kinney moved to Florida in 2005 to work as a NASA civil servant. She worked on the Launch Services program, served as an assistant Chief Engineer for Ares I-X Ground Systems, and supported the STS Chief Engineer in resolving technical, hardware and analysis issues during the final years of the shuttle program.

How Kinney became Kennedy Space Center's first female chief engineer

Kinney later received her master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2009, after having worked in engineering for three decades.

“I spent the first three decades doing cool, dynamic, load analysis, structural analysis, fracture related work," she said.

It was not until she was further into her career that Kinney decided on the goal of becoming a chief engineer. She had the job experience but needed to gain some additional systems engineering experience.

“I was so excited by the work, that I didn’t want to keep going to school ... it took me years to say ‘okay, stop and start doing a masters’,” said Kinney.

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Kinney reached the highlight of her career in 2023, when she landed the role as the Deep Space Logistics (DSL) Team's Chief Engineer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

It was quite the accomplishment, as of April 2024, Kinney, is still Kennedy Space Center's only female chief engineer in history.

Women at NASA over the years

According to an interview posted on the Johnson Space Center's history site, the number of women working at NASA during Kinney's school days were few. In the 2011 interview, Harriet G. Jenkins stated that in 1974, a little more than half a decade before Kinney entered the workforce, 17.1% of the agency's workforce consisted of women. Jenkins served as NASA's assistant administrator for equal opportunity programs from 1974 until 1992.

According to the 2023 statistics report from NASA's Office of Inspector General, that number grew to 35.2% in 2012. As of 2021, that percentage remained about stable at 35 %

Kinney now working on humanity’s return to moon

With the Artemis project well underway, Kinney's DSL team is working on a payload arm, similar to the space station's Canada Arm, for the Gateway project.

The NASA Gateway will be a space station and science outpost for Artemis astronauts which orbits the moon. When traveling to the moon on future Artemis missions, astronauts will dock the Orion crew capsule with the Gateway before boarding the ship which will take them to the lunar surface.

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“Arms are very complicated. People underestimate them. They’re big, long, lengthy thing with a lot of mechanisms. So, packaging them, making sure that they function properly, making sure you don’t overload them … it’s a tall order to get one of those up there and have it function properly,” Kinney said.

With Gateway not being occupied continuously, the arm will need to function remotely. Since previous space payload arms always had someone manually control them, this takes the designing process to a new level of complexity.

There will also be the threat of lunar dust flying up from the surface. Kinney explained that lunar dust is not anything like dust on Earth – it’s sharp, rocky debris.

Kinney's advice to young girls interested in space

Kinney believes everyone can do better at encouraging young girls in the field of engineering.

“Don’t be intimidated. Don’t look at things as too hard, but a challenge. Because you never know what opportunities are in front of you.” Kinney said.

She noted that many seasoned professionals in the space industry will one day retire.

“We’re going to go to Mars, and we’re going to need some really smart people,” adding that this next generation can and will go further.

“This is the best time to get into space. You guys cannot even imagine what’s coming,” said Kinney.

Brooke Edwards is a Space Reporter for Florida Today. Contact her at [email protected] or on X: @brookeofstars.