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 Washington (AFP) Sept 15, 2009 
A group of US lawmakers on Tuesday slammed a report by aerospace experts tasked to review NASA's human space flight program that proposed ditching plans to return to the Moon. "When it was announced that you were going to be leading an independent review of the human space flight program, I thought you were going to take a hard, cold, sobering look at the Constellation program," Democratic ... read more
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2009Fifty years ago in 1959, test pilot Scott Crossfield threw the switch to ignite the twin XLR-11 engines of his North American Aviation X-15 rocket plane and begin the storied test program's first powered flight. It was a real kick in the pants. "The drop from the B-52 carrier aircraft was pretty abrupt, and then when you lit that rocket a second or two later you definitely felt it," said ... more
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 16, 2009Russia will launch a Proton-M carrier rocket on September 25 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to orbit three Glonass navigation satellites, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2009Today, Norman Augustine, the Chair of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, testifies to the U.S. Congress to present the summary of their final report to the Obama Administration. The Committee made a number of important conclusions and suggestions for changes in Constellation, the currently planned U.S. human spaceflight program. "The Planetary Society agrees with their principal ... more  
Dulles VA (SPX) Sep 16, 2009Dulles VA (SPX) Sep 16, 2009 Orbital Sciences Corporation has announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) recently ordered the first Minotaur V launch vehicle under the company's Orbital/Suborbital Program-2 (OSP-2) contract. The Minotaur V rocket will propel NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) probe on a trajectory to enable it to ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 16, 2009Raytheon began developmental testing of the U.S. Air Force's newest variant of the laser-guided Maverick missile, the AGM-65E2. The laser-guided Maverick missile is a direct-attack, air-to-ground precision munition used extensively by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps in current combat operations. The AGM-65E2 employs the latest in digital semi-active laser sensor technology, which ... more  
Onna, Italy (AFP) Sept 15, 2009Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday handed over the keys of the first permanent houses for those left homeless by a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds of people. More than five months after the massive quake rocked the central Abruzzo region, Berlusconi arrived with great fanfare in the shattered village of Onna, outside the main town of L'Aquila, to deliver 94 new ... more  
London (UPI) Sep 15, 2009 Despite recent moves toward rearmament and anti-U.S. rhetoric from longtime critics like Venezuela, Latin America is moving towards more pragmatic policies that will facilitate the Obama administration's re-engagement with the continent, the annual strategic survey from the International Institute for Strategic Studies said Tuesday. The IISS Strategic Survey 2009 coincides with large ... more |
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