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January 21, 2005

Big Changes At Bombardier

Corporate Office Staff Reduction And Organizational Changes

Bombardier announced Friday a reorganization of its corporate office and the decentralization of certain functional responsibilities to Bombardier Aerospace and Bombardier Transportation. The reorganization follows the previously announced creation of the Office of the President that regroups strategic and executive management responsibilities around the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and the Presidents of the Corporation’s two main operating groups. A total of 60 corporate office positions will be eliminated.

Opportunity Scores Again; Scientists Very Pleased

If you go exploring the neighborhood, you never know what you'll find. Especially if you're NASA's incredible, overachieving Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. This week Opportunity, cruising the Meridiani Plain, poked around looking at,and photographing, one of the heat shields that it jettisoned on descent to the planet. Then it moved on to a basketball-sized rock that rover program scientists had been calling "Heat Shield Rock" for its proximity to the discarded shield. The conclusion: the rock was a meteorite, fallen from space, and made mostly of an alloy of iron and nickel.

The Most Advanced Photo-Voltaic Cells Available On Earth?

A state-of-the-art solar array is providing a unique opportunity to demonstrate the latest in high-efficiency solar cells available for terrestrial use at a demonstration site at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, CA.