Aero-News: Aerospace

ANN Special Feature: Tim Bailey on the Future of Commercial Spaceflight - 10.21.09

editor@aero-news.net — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:24:36 EST

ANN Editor-in-Chief Jim Campbell talks about the future of commercial space travel with Tim Bailey, 2009 Chairman of the International Space Development Conference.

FMI: www.nss.org

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ANN Special Feature: Eric Anderson, Space Adventures 04.08.09

editor@aero-news.net — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:09:13 EST

Eric Anderson, co-founder, president and CEO of Space Adventures, welcomes home space tourist Charles Simonyi, and discusses his company's plans for the future.

FMI: www.spaceadventures.com ; www.charlesinspace.com

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ANN Special Feature: XCOR Lynx Begins Ticket Sales II - 12.04.08

editor@aero-news.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:14:21 EST

RocketShip Tours founder and CEO Jules Klar introduces the first paying passenger for commercial flights of the XCOR Lynx suborbital spacecraft, Danish investment banker and adventurer Per Wimmer. Also, Retired USAF Col. and former NASA astronaut Rick Searfoss discusses his role as pilot for Lynx flights.

FMI: www.rocketshiptours.com

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ANN Special Feature: XCOR Lynx Begins Ticket Sales I - 12.03.08

editor@aero-news.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:13:13 EST

XCOR Aerospace CEO Jeff Greason announces the firm's partnership with RocketShip Tours, a new company founded by veteran travel industry executive Jules Klar specifically to market suborbital flights on XCOR's Lynx spacecraft; Klar outlines his background and business plan.

FMI: www.rocketshiptours.com

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ANN Special Feature: Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX - 11.05.08

editor@aero-news.net — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:15:46 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Gwynne Shotwell, VP of Business Development at Space Exploration Technologies, about the company and the rapidly growing commercial space industry.

FMI: www.spacex.com

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ANN Special Feature: Evergreen Space Museum - 05.30.08

editor@aero-news.net — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:46:36 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Nicole Wahlberg of McMinnville, Oregon's Evergreen Aviation & Space museum about its June 6 grand opening of a 120,000-square-foot space exhibit, with attractions including a simulated Titan missle launch.

FMI: www.sprucegoose.org ; www.yamhillvalley.org

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ANN Special Feature: Sally Crossfield Farley - 04.17.08

editor@aero-news.net — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:41:04 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with with Sally Crossfield Farley, daughter of the late Scott Crossfield, about the award for teachers which bears his name, and how you can submit a nomination.

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ANN Special Feature: Bob Richards, Odyssey Moon - 12.07.07

editor@aero-news.net — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:16:43 EST

Odyssey Moon Thursday became the first team to complete registration for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE. ANN's Paul Plack talks with founder Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards about the group's plans to compete with a unique small robotic lander designed to deliver scientific, exploration and commercial payloads to the surface of the Moon.

FMI: www.odysseymoon.com

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ANN Special Feature: Mike Adamson, AEA - 11.07.07

editor@aero-news.net — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:22:05 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Mike Adamson, director of training and education for the Aircraft Electronics Association.

AEA just announced its list of annual scholarships has grown to 40 for the 2008-2009 academic year. Mike offers details on what the job of avionics technician involves, how one trains for the field, and some of the challenges faced by the industry.

FMI: www.aea.net/scholarship/

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ANN Special Feature: Mike Melvill, Brian Binnie, SpaceShipOne - 09.19.07

editor@aero-news.net — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:18:57 EST

Today... you can hear the story of the X-Prize winning flights of SpaceShipOne three years ago, as told to an audience at AirVenture by Mike Melvill, Brian Binnie and Burt Rutan.

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ANN Special Feature: Ben Shelef, CEO, Spaceward - 09.14.07

editor@aero-news.net — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:26:09 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Ben Shelef, CEO of the Spaceward Foundation, which will hold a competition in Utah next month for experimenters working on tether-climbing spacecraft.

FMI: www.spaceward.org

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ANN Special Feature: Jeff Greason, XCOR Aerospace - 08.31.07

editor@aero-news.net — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:55:02 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Jeff Greason who, along with some friends who were looking for work in the aerospace industry, started a kitchen table business called XCOR Aerospace in 1999. In June of this year, the company made Inc Magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing companies.

FMI: www.xcor.com

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ANN Special Feature: Dr. David Dinges, Psychomotor Testing - 08.30.07

editor@aero-news.net — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:42:25 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with David F. Dinges, Ph.D., team leader of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Factors Team. Dr. Dinges has developed something called the "Psychomotor Vigilance Test," to determine the physiological and mental fitness of astronauts for critical tasks. The test may also have civilian applications, some of them controversial.

FMI: www.nsbri.org

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ANN Special Feature: Earl Renaud, TGV Rockets, Inc. - 06.15.07

editor@aero-news.net — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:50:09 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Earl Renaud, Chief Operating Officer of TGV Rockets, Inc. The company has successfully demonstrated a throttleable kerosene rocket engine which may make possible a spacecraft which can land vertically.

FMI: www.tgv-rockets.com

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ANN Special Feature: Scott Redmond, Personal Flight Systems - 06.11.07

editor@aero-news.net — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:30:22 EST

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Scott Redmond, who recently received a patent for an improved way to use
new electrically charged, polarized, proprietary alloys to create thrust to lift small aircraft without the
need for a propeller, jet, balloon or rockets.

FMI: www.personalflightsystems.com
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