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July 06, 2015

Airborne 07.06.15: Solar Impulse In Hawaii, FAA Reauth Delayed, Airlines Investigated

Also: SpaceX Test, The G500, Senate Appropriations, TSA Causes Cash Confiscation, NASA v Thunderstorms, Virgin Atlantic Cuts, Bristow Scholarship

Even those of us who love flying will have to admit that being cramped into a single place cockpit for 5 days in an aircraft that is lucky to hit 50 miles per hour has got to be pushing the limits of having a good time. That’s exactly what Pilot Andre Borschberg had done when he landed the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 airplane at Kalaeloa Airport, Hawaii last Friday. The flight from Japan lasted 118 hours and covered about 5,144 miles across the Pacific Ocean. We had expected to see the draft FAA Reauthorization Bill release by now, but that isn’t going to happen. The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Prototype Airplane Could Lead To First To Fly On Mars

Prandtl-m Under Development At Armstrong Flight Center

When an aircraft makes its first flight on Mars in the 2020s, a NASA Armstrong innovation may have made it possible.

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Working Out In Artificial Gravity

MIT Researchers Find A Combination Of Exercise And Artificial Gravity May Lessen Negative Effects Of Weightlessness In Space

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have a number of exercise options, including a mechanical bicycle bolted to the floor, a weightlifting machine strapped to the wall, and a strap-down treadmill. They spend a significant portion of each day working out to ward off the long-term effects of weightlessness, but many still suffer bone loss, muscle atrophy, and issues with balance and their cardiovascular systems.

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First Instrument Delivered For NASA’s Upcoming Asteroid Sample Return Mission

Thermal Emission Spectrometer Will Map Mineral And Chemical Levels, Temperature On Asteroid Bennu

The first of five instruments for a spacecraft that will collect a sample from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth has arrived at Lockheed Martin for installation onto NASA’s Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx).

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LISA Pathfinder: The First Step Towards Observing Einstein’s Gravitational Waves

Airbus Defense and Space Has Now Delivered The LISA Technology Package For The Next ESA Scientific Mission

Complicated inner workings for a complicated proof: with the LISA Technology Package (LTP), Airbus Defense and Space has now delivered the heart of the LISA Pathfinder scientific space probe. LISA Pathfinder will enable the test of advanced technology with which the gravitational waves described by Einstein can be observed from space.

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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Stays The Course To Pluto

Given Green Light For July 14 Flyby Of The Dwarf Planet

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is getting a final “all clear” as it speeds closer to its historic July 14 flyby of Pluto and the dwarf planet’s five moons.

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Senate Appropriations Committee Supports FAA’s Space Efforts

Commercial Space Federation Applauds Funding For Agency's Office Of Space Transportation

Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2016 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Bill. The Bill provides $17.425 million for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, $2 million for Commercial Space Transportation Safety, and $2 million for Facilities and Equipment to better integrate Commercial Space Traffic with the National Airspace System.

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Aero-TV: An Intro To Quad-Copters – Horizon Hobby Explains A Model Revolution

The Quadcopter Revolution Is In Full Swing... Here's Info On How To Join In!

While at eFest 2015, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, talks with a company known as Horizon Hobby to find out what’s going on in the rapidly changing world of remote control (RC) aircraft. In this interview, Jim talks with James Haley, the multirotor category manager for Horizon Hobby, about the new world of RC quadcopters.

SpaceX Plans Downrange Abort Test From Kennedy Space Center

Relocated From Vandenberg AFB In California

A planned in-flight abort test for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has been moved from Vandenberg AFB in California to Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral in Florida ... and has been delayed until further notice.

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