NASA will honor the life and pioneering achievements of original
Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
during a memorial service at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 15, at the
Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston (TX).
As SpaceShipOne rocketed over the Mojave Desert on October 4 to
claim the famed Ansari XPrize, a team of engineers at Edwards Air
Force Base collected data about the spacecraft’s trajectory
thanks to the spaceport arrival and departure safety system.
NASA and AeroVironment, Inc., are joining forces again to
conduct a new series of research flights by the solar-electric
Pathfinder-Plus flying wing this fall at NASA's Dryden Flight
Research Center.
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