Legendary Test Pilot, Engineer Found In Wrecked Plane
Scott Crossfield was a name that every boy in the fifties and
sixties knew. He was one of several legendary test pilots who
regularly swapped positions as the fastest men alive during that
period of technological upheaval. But while obituaries and
encomiums today will polish the legend of "Scott Crossfield, Test
Pilot," he wasn't just a test pilot.
NASA has bumped the launch of the CloudSat and Calipso
satellites by 24 hours while scientists work to determine why
communications were lost between the Mission Director Center at
Vandenberg Air Force Base and the Centre National d'Etudes
Spatiales (CNES) Space Command in Toulouse, France, just 48 seconds
before Friday's planned launch.
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