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March 05, 2009

NASA Moves Closer To Clearing STS-119 For Launch

Tentative Launch Date Now March 11

After four weeks of delays stemming from a persistent issue with fuel control valves, NASA appears nearly ready to launch the space shuttle Discovery less than one week from now.

Flexing Blades Could Make Helos More Efficient

Helicopters today are considered a loud, bumpy and inefficient mode for day-to-day domestic travel... best reserved for medical emergencies, traffic reporting and hovering over celebrity weddings. But NASA research into rotor blades made with shape-changing materials could change that view.

Will Slash 750 Positions By Mid-June

The firm created by the merger of the El Segundo and Redondo Beach operations of aerospace manufacturer Northrop Grumman plans to cut up to 750 jobs in Southern California over the next three months, the latest casualties of increasing consolidation in the military and defense sectors.

World's Biggest Space Party Comes To Hampton Roads

The world's biggest space party is coming to Hampton Roads. Partygoers will join 198 cities, in 51 countries, for Yuri's Night, a celebration of space exploration, April 4, 2009, from 7 pm to midnight at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton.

The SkyCatchers Are Coming... Soon!

It won't be long now... before brand new Cessna LSAs start taking to the sky to help a new generation of aviators take wing. At the 2009 US Sport Aviation Expo, ANN's Jim Campbell caught up with the Cessna folks to get an update on the SkyCatcher program.

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NASA Names More Members Of OCO Mishap Board

Will Investigate What Went Wrong With Orbiting Carbon Observatory Launch

NASA has selected all the members of the board that will investigate the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on February 24. Rick Obenschain, deputy director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, will lead the mishap investigation board.

ERAU Says It's Gaining Support For Space Transportation Institute

Multi-University Entity Would Boost R&D, Promote Spaceport Competitiveness

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University said it is gaining support for a multi-university Space Transportation Research & Development Institute (STRDI) as space industry leaders gather in Tallahassee for Florida Space Day on Wednesday.

Developing Wireless Bus For USAF Research Laboratory

Radios are wireless. Telephones are wireless. Computers are wireless. And in the next step forward in space systems, satellite equipment could become wireless too.