Robert Lightfoot Will Serve As Acting Director For Now
David King, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, AL is retiring from the agency to accept a position as
executive vice president of Dynetics in Huntsville, effective
immediately. Robert M. Lightfoot, Marshall's deputy center
director, will serve as acting director until a successor is
named.
One Of The Seven Wonders Of The Aeronautical World
Ask ANN's Jim Campbell, a guy who may have flown more unique aircraft types than anybody on Planet Earth, what some of his favorite airplanes are and one name, in particular, will come up quickly -- The Lockwood AirCam.
Discovery To Land Saturday; Atlantis Moves To Launch Pad
Tuesday
Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad
39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, March
31... three days after its sister ship Discovery is scheduled to
land at KSC following completion of its STS-119 mission to the
International Space Station.
Constellation Program To Conduct Ocean Tests In April
A full-scale mockup of NASA's Orion crew module is being tested
in water under simulated and real landing weather conditions.
Beginning March 23, a Navy-built, 18,000-pound Orion mockup will be
placed in a test pool at the Naval Surface Warfare Center's
Carderock Division in West Bethesda, MD. Ocean testing will begin
April 6 off the coast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in
Florida.
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