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December 12, 2008

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes Prime Mission

73 Terabits Of Data Sent From Above Red Planet

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments.

Plant May Support Expansion Into Commercial Aerospace Sector

The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) Business Development Board met this week, and approved an Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF) incentive for a new ATK manufacturing facility.

Will Implement Conditioning Regime For Tourinauts

At a conference held earlier this month at the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, FL, Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp, Space Florida President Steve Kohler and Dr. Joe Story, president of The Andrews-Paulos Research & Education Institute, announced the formation of a Personal Spaceflight Medical Program, among the first of its kind for commercial space tourists.

Red Bull Gives You... Rotors?

So what makes pilot Charles "Chuck" Aaron's airshow act so special? Well, all you had to do was watch his HELI-AEROBATIC act at Oshkosh to know that something SERIOUSLY DIFFERENT had come to Wittman Field. The Red Bull BO-105 CBS, made by Eurocopter/Messerschmitt Boelkow Blohm (MBB), blew everyone away with a routine rarely seen anywhere, much less at world-class airshow like Oshkosh.

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Report: Griffin Clashes With Transition Team

NASA Administrator Desperate To Save Constellation

Petulant, or passionate? The search for a new NASA administrator may have just kicked into high gear, as current agency chief Michael Griffin is reportedly making things quite difficult for members of the Obama transition team.

Canadian Telecom Satellite Was Sixth Launch For 2008

International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the Ciel II satellite into space for the Ciel Satellite Group of Canada Wednesday onboard a Russian Proton Breeze M heavy-lift launch vehicle.