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Stone Aerospace : ウィキペディア英語版 | Stone Aerospace Stone Aerospace is an aerospace engineering firm founded by engineer and explorer Bill Stone, located in Del Valle, a suburb of Austin, Texas.〔(Stone Aerospace History ). Stone Aerospace. Retrieved: 6 March 2012.〕 == History ==
Bill Stone began Stone Aerospace as a part-time consulting business in 1999, at which time he was working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. At the time, Stone already had an extensive background in underground and underwater exploration, which had led him to develop several technologies to further human exploration capabilities. This background, and in particular the success of the Wakulla II Project in Wakulla Springs, Florida, which employed Stone's human-navigated digital wall mapper, lead to inquiries as to whether it would be possible to design an autonomous underwater vehicle, which could explore on its own, making exploration possible where it was not safe or possible for human divers to go. After submitting several proposals to NASA, in 2003 DEPTHX was funded.〔 Shortly thereafter Stone's Piedra-Sombra Corporation began doing business as Stone Aerospace in Del Valle, Texas. After the successful autonomous exploration by DEPTHX of several cenotes in Mexico,〔(NASA Robot Completes Test Drive of Exploration Capabilities ) PR Newswire. 31 May 2007〕 NASA then funded the ENDURANCE Project, which spent two seasons exploring frozen-over lakes in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.〔(Antarctic diving robot practices for Europa ). MSNBC Today Tech. 9 April 2010.〕 Project VALKYRIE was awarded NASA funding in 2010, and is currently in the early stages of development.〔(Stone Aerospace wins Phase 2 funding for Project VALKYRIE ). Stone Aerospace. 18 October 2011.〕
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