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January 24, 2014

NASA Set For A Big Year In Earth Science With Five New Missions

Spacecraft Will Turn Their Gaze To Earth To Monitor The Planet

For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth science missions will be launched into space in the same year, opening new and improved remote eyes to monitor our changing planet.

Also: Pocket Drone, Tuskegee's James Bowman, 40 TBM in '13, Roadable Aircraft,

As we were preparing this webcast of Airborne, ANN’s Jim Campbell got some very much unwanted news... one of the grand gentlemen of aviation, NASAO CEO and president Henry Ogrodzinski, passed away after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Is cash flow a concern at Bombardier? The company just announced that it will lay off about 1,700 workers in its aerospace division shortly after saying the entry into service of the CSeries aircraft will be delayed until sometime in 2015. Specially modified aircraft originally created for Alaskan bush-pilot necessity, turned into one of the world's most unique aviation competitions. The "Valdez STOL" (short takeoff and landing) compaction held in Alask