On Friday, 33 members of the US Senate sent a letter to Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Robert Sturgell
questioning the inadequate staffing levels of the FAA technical
workforce.
Space Adventures' vision is to open spaceflight and the space
frontier to private citizens. Over the next decade Space Adventures
will fly more people to space than have made the journey since the
dawn of the Space Age.
The outermost part of a planetary magnetosphere; the place where
the supersonic flow of the solar wind is slowed to subsonic speed
by the planetary magnetic field.
"It's absolutely about keeping EADS and Airbus from
manufacturing airplanes in the United States."
Source: EADS North America chief Ralph Crosby,
about continuing protests from Boeing and its supporters on Capitol
Hill regarding the selection of the Northrop Grumman/EADS KC-45A
for the US Air Force KC-X tanker contract.
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