The saga of Santa Monica Airport in California continues as the NBAA has called into question new moves to diminish access to the airport. The Association’s latest statements about preserving airport access follows vote by the Santa Monica Airport Commission recommending that the city council move ahead to implement costly new leases for tenants, close a portion of the airport’s runway and enact a new emissions ordinance. If you have never seen an F-22 Raptor strut-Its-stuff, the Air Force is
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft continues on the agency’s journey to Mars as engineers analyze data from the spacecraft’s December flight test and make progress developing and building the spacecraft for its first mission atop NASA Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket. By the end of the year, engineers hope to have the primary structure for Orion’s next mission to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for processing. Meanwhile, every piece of data and each element of t
"I have dedicated the last 50 years of my life to this proposition and I do not intend to stop any time soon. I think there is broad agreement in the space community and the panelists you are hearing from today on this point. There is decidedly less agreement on how we should do this." Source: Prepared remarks by Buzz Aldrin at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Space.
Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC)
COMSTAC provides information, advice, and recommendations to the Administrator of the FAA within the Department of Transportation (DOT) on matters concerning the U.S. commercial space transportation industry.
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