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May 08, 2007

Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Tuesday 05.08.07

How To Run A Spaceport, With Spaceport America's Rick Homans

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 05.08.07 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 05.08.07 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- All About Spaceport America: 05.08.07 (ANN Special Feature, with Rick Homans, newly-appointed Executive Director of Spaceport America.)

Has A Longer Trip Scheduled For August

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took a little trip Monday, crossing the US from Colorado to Florida's Kennedy Space Center onboard a USAF C-17 cargo plane. The probe will undertake a much longer journey in August, when NASA is scheduled to send the oft-delayed spacecraft to the Red Planet.

Agency Seeks Reliable Backup Options

NASA announced Friday it selected The Boeing Company and Textron Systems to develop alternate heat shield materials for the Orion crew exploration spacecraft.