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August 11, 2016

Airborne 08.11.16: CAP's 75th!, Frontier Pilot Demands, Space Virtual Reality

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More than 700 Civil Air Patrol members will convene at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center this week for the organization’s 2016 National Conference. The conference will devote several days to training, networking and focusing on the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary’s historic past as well as its promising future. Airline labor strife seems to be in the offing at Frontier Airlines as The Air Line Pilots Association has filed a grievance that will lead to arbitration. ALPA is demanding that the company negotiate new pay rates under an agreement reached in 2011 where Frontier pilots sacrificed $55 million in p

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Plans Announced For For First Commercial Interplanetary Mining Mission

Deep Space Industries' Prospector-1 Spacecraft Will Rendezvous With A Near-Earth Asteroid

Deep Space Industries has announced its plans to fly the world's first commercial interplanetary mining mission. Prospector-1 will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, and investigate the object to determine its value as a source of space resources. This mission is an important step in the company’s plans to harvest and supply in-space resources to support the growing space economy.

Will Evaluate New Hardware For NASA's CRS-2 Program

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Dream Chaser full-scale, flight test vehicle is ready for transportation to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in California where Phase Two flight tests will be conducted in coordination with Edwards Air Force Base (AFB).