Aero-News learned Tuesday that Donald S. Lopez, 84, deputy
director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, died
of a heart attack on March 3. Lopez had been with the Smithsonian
Institution since 1972, when he became part of the team led by
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins responsible for planning the
construction and opening of the National Air and Space Museum.
On Track For First Falcon 9 Delivery By End Of Year
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced Monday
its newly revised mission manifest, listing 12 flights of its
Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.
NASA tells ANN its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or
GLAST, arrived Tuesday at the Astrotech payload processing facility
near the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for
launch. Liftoff of GLAST aboard a Delta II rocket is currently
targeted for 1145 EDT on May 16.
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