Brian Feeney and his volunteer team has been working nonstop to
ready their Wild Fire Mk VI X-Prize contender for a scheduled
October 2 launch attempt, but they still have several key hardware
and administrative issues that need to be completed. On the
administrative side, insurance to cover launch liability has yet to
be secured and the Canadian Government has not granted permission
for the launch from Kindersley, Saskatchewan.
Landmark Building Damaged by Hurricane Frances: "Could be
worse."
by Kevin 'Hognose' O'Brien
A NASA landmark is battered but still standing after Hurricane
Frances threw her blustery best at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on
Cape Canaveral, the launch pad of the US manned spaceflight program
and many other American space ventures.
NASA's Genesis spacecraft crossed the orbit of the Moon early
Monday, on its way to the mission's dramatic finale over the skies
of west-central Utah Wednesday. Genesis, bringing back samples of
the solar wind, is NASA's first sample return mission since Apollo
17 returned the last of America's lunar samples to Earth in
December 1972.
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