Astronauts Steve Swanson and Joseph Acaba ended the second
spacewalk of the STS-119 mission to the International Space Station
at 7:21 pm EDT Saturday. They prepared a worksite so the STS-127
spacewalkers can more easily change out the Port 6 truss batteries
later this year.
Among the most notable highlights coming to this year's AERO
Friedrichshafen expo in Germany is the inaugural "e-flight-expo" --
an event highlighting environmentally-friendly alternatives to
traditional gas-and-kerosene-fueled aircraft engines. At that
event, an ultralight aircraft by French company Helite will take to
the air exclusively propelled by hydrogen energy... without
supplementary energy supplied by batteries.
Suborbital Jaunts From New Mexico To Start In 2011, One Year
Later From Sweden
Last week Virgin Galactic announced the names of the five travel
companies who will train to become "Accredited Space Agents" - ASAs
- the first agents in Scandinavia allowed to reserve seats aboard
suborbital space flights from Spaceport Sweden, slated to begin in
2012.
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