Scuttling Shuttle: Big Challenges for NASA's New Spaceship

News  |  www.space.com | Sep 23, 2008

NASA is facing big challenges to replace the shuttle and keep astronauts aloft.

http://www.space.com/news/080923-nasa50-shuttletransition.html

Weather forces delay of US shuttle rescue exercise in Portugal

Strong winds forced the postponement Friday of a test of the US military's capacity to save a downed space shuttle crew which was to take place on Portugal's Azores islands, the Lusa news agency reported.

http://www.spacedaily.com/2004/040130160956.dp4r76qc.html

Missiles and Space flight. . . of the crew of observers can be modified or completely changed to...

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Missiles and Space flight. . . of the crew of observers can be modified or completely changed to accomplish new or additional missions. Such an observatory should have provisions for the addition or replacement of equipment simply and quickly in order to respond to new knowledge or new requirements.

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Photo Release -- California Teachers Get a Lesson in Weightlessness Through Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery (GlobeNewswire)

News  |  biz.yahoo.com | Sep 19, 2008

Photo Release -- California Teachers Get a Lesson in Weightlessness Through Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery. - SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 19, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC - News) Foundation launched 53 California teachers into weightlessness

http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/080919/150719.html

Delta II Rocket Launches Second Italian COSMO-SkyMed Satellite

Lift-off occurred at 6:31 p.m. Pacific time from Pad SLC-2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. A Delta II 7420-10 configuration launch vehicle procured from United Launch Alliance deployed the COSMO-SkyMed spacecraft to low-Earth orbit approximately 58 minutes after liftoff.

http://www.deagel.com/news/Delta-II-Rocket-Launches-Second-Italian-COSMO-SkyMed-Satellite_n000003270.aspx

QinetiQ delivers successful first test of penetrator for future planetary research: Defence technology holds the key to alternative to manned space-flight

News  |  www.skycontrol.net | Jun 6, 2008

The first three test firings of small missile-like probes that will allow scientific measurements to be taken from the far side of the Moon have been successfully completed at MOD Pendine in South Wales in May 2008 using the long test track facility which is operated and managed by QinetiQ. ...

http://www.skycontrol.net/industry/qinetiq-delivers-successful-first-test-of-penetrator-for-future-planetary-research-defence-technology-holds-the-key-to-alternative-to-manned-space-flight/

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And Then There Were Three

News  |  www.nasawatch.com | Sep 25, 2008

Space Inspires Passion And Practicality in China, Washington Post"Space experts outside China are

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/09/and_then_there.html

AIA | Election 2008 Issues

Hurricane evacuations are possible because of advanced warnings from space. Without early warning, the tragedy of Katrina would have been many times greater, rivaling the estimated death toll of 6,000 people in the Galveston hurricane of 1900.

http://www.aia-aerospace.org/issues/election2008/space-3.cfm

Pentagon official, three others charged with spying for China (AFP)

News  |  news.yahoo.com | Feb 12, 2008

A US defense official, an ex-Boeing engineer and two others were charged Monday with spying for China involving sensitive military and aerospace secrets, including on the space shuttle.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080212/ts_alt_afp/uschinaespionagearrest

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