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July 14, 2015

Airborne 07.14.15: Solar Impulse Delay, USN Pilot Betrayal, Wright Flyer at OSH15!

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Following the record breaking oceanic flight of 5 days and 5 nights in the solar powered airplane by André Borschberg, Solar Impulse will undergo maintenance repairs on the batteries. Despite having completed the longest and most difficult leg of the Round the World Solar Flight, the solar powered airplane has suffered battery damages due to overheating. The Solar Impulse team said in a news release that the damage to certain parts of the batteries is irreversible and will require repairs and replacements that will take several weeks to work through. A former Navy pilot and Top Gun graduate who is in prison on 31 charges of producing child pornography apparently

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Success!! NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Is At Pluto

Flew Within 8,000 Miles Of The Dwarf Planet Early Tuesday

After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface -- roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.

Operational And Maintenance Issues, International Partnership Among The Topics Discussed

The Subcommittee on Space held a hearing late last week to examine the current status of the International Space Station (ISS) and evaluate NASA' plans for dealing with operational and maintenance challenges. Witnesses at the hearing also discussed the status of the ISS partnership, how NASA is utilizing the ISS to enable future deep space exploration, and the Administration’s request to extend ISS operations to 2024.