While he was wishing "cheerio" to family and friends before
Monday’s SpaceShipOne flight, pilot Brian Bennie
inadvertently took on 12 ounces more weight than planned.
Billy T. Thornton had a very important job at NASA. He was a
quality assurance inspector in the space agency's shuttle program,
in charge of signing off on structural inspections throughout the
shuttle fleet. But in a 166-count federal indictment unsealed
Tuesday, the government says he often failed to make those
inspections and sometimes didn't even go aboard the spacecraft he
was supposed to be inspecting.
Rose Dorcey, President of the Board of Directors of the
Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame (WAHF), was the guest speaker in
Sparta Wisconsin for the Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bike
Museum's first tea time of the season, Bit of Wisconsin, September
30, 2004.
Scientists are optimistic that samples of the Sun that arrived
in Houston on Monday will provide important information on the
history and origin of the solar system.
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