Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp, Selection Committee, Space Florida
Board Unanimous In Decision
During a one-topic Board of Director's teleconference Thursday,
Florida Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp and the Space Florida Board of
Directors unanimously voted to name Frank DiBello as the permanent
President and CEO of Space Florida, the state's agency for
aerospace economic development.
Committee Chair Says Alternatives "Look Like Cartoons"
At a hearing before the House Science and Technology Committee
Tuesday, Human Space Flight Commission Chair Norman Augustine found
himself defending the committees' recommendations to scrap a
planned return to the moon given NASA's budget constraints.
Rocket To Launch NASAs Lunar Spacecraft From Wallops Island,
Virginia
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced Tuesday 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.
First Powered X-15 Flight Was Fifty Years Ago September 17th
Fifty 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.
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