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California Science Center Announces Details for Mission 26: The Big Endeavour

Transport Route Established. Arrival Date And Grand Opening In Los Angeles Set For This Fall

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Inglewood Mayor James Butts and California Science Center President Jeffrey Rudolph today announced details of Mission 26: The Big Endeavour, Endeavour's journey from Kennedy Space Center to its new home at the Science Center.

Airborne 08.10.12: Via Exits Glasair, Andrew Leaves EAA, NASA On Mars!

Also: FAA Suspends Reverse Ops, NTSB's 787 Investigation, Barnstorming, ABX Pilot Firing, Armstrong Recovering

Following a flight of just over eight months, Curiosity landed on Mars in the very early morning hours -- Eastern time --- Monday near the foot of a mountain three miles tall and 96 miles in diameter inside Gale Crater. During a nearly two-year prime mission, the rover will investigate whether the region ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life. "The Seven Minutes of Terror has turned into the Seven Minutes of Triumph," said NASA Associate Administrator for Science John Grunsfeld. After 26 years of continuous service on the E

Klyde Morris 08.10.2012

Lineboy Poetry For Our Economic Times

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (08.10.12)

"We've been very fortunate that the green laser incidents haven't yet resulted in tragedy. But every time we send our aircrews to the Grand Strand, we're telling them to fly into the equivalent of a storm, where it's almost guaranteed they'll be hit." Source: Cmdr. Gregory Fuller, commanding officer at Air Station Savannah.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (08.10.12): Vertical Separation

Separation between aircraft expressed in units of vertical distance.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (08.10.12)

Misty Blues All-Women Skydiving Team

A few interesting facts about this all women's skydiving team: It's the only all women's skydiving demonstration team in the world which has been performing all around the world for over 20 years.