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August 09, 2006

ANN Special Feature: CBS News Radio Correspondent Peter King at Kennedy Space Center 08.10.06

Today's the day NASA stages its big dress-rehearsal in advance of STS-115... the first mission for the shuttle Atlantis since the Columbia tragedy more than three years ago. At the Cape for this mi

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USAF: Bearing Assembly Failure Caused F-16 Crash In Utah

A bearing assembly failure caused an F-16 Fighting Falcon to crash in an unpopulated dry area close to Carrington Island in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, during a training mission March 30, according to an Air Force report released Aug. 7.

Two MV-22B “Ospreys,” belonging to Marine Tiltrotor Test and Evaluation Squadron 22, made history last month by completing the first-ever Tiltrotor Vertical Assault Aircraft trans-Atlantic flights Saturday, July 29. The “Ospreys” successfully flew from North Carolina to England and back.

Time flies -- and so does the Eurofighter Typhoon... The Eurofighter Typhoon fleet in the four partner air forces of Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom has surpassed the 10,000 flying hours in July 2006. Together with 4.550 flying hours of the test aircraft, the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet is approaching the 15,000 flying hours mark rapidly.