Williams Downloads Video Tour Of Station For Successor
Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer
Oleg Kotov prepared last week for two spacewalks while Flight
Engineer Suni Williams prepared for her return to Earth.
It surely came as a blow to Sikorsky's collective ego when,
after decades of faithful service toting around the commander in
chief, the Navy selected Lockheed Martin as the
new supplier for Marine One, the presidential
helicopter, for 2009.
The fact that he's now a professional poker player should come
as a surprise to no one that knows him. Mathias Rust started
gambling and taking risks pretty early on in his rather unorthodox
and turbulent life.
Aero-News has learned the founder of the Balloon Federation of
America -- a man called "the father of the modern-day hot air
balloon" -- passed away Sunday. Paul "Ed" Yost reportedly collapsed
while doing yardwork outside his New Mexico home.
Disagreement As To Number of Survivors In Thursday's
Accident
Peruvian police recovered the remains of 13 people killed in a
plane crash Thursday, including the three-man crew, in the
country's northeastern jungle, a regional official said.
Even thought the first Airbus A380 has yet to be delivered, the
debate has begun on the pay for the pilots of the double-decker
super jumbo jet that can carry up to 853 passengers.
Aerospace companies, especially large ones, are not
typically known for building production complexes in developing
nations as they are for the industrialized world.
Following a two-day ministerial (a meeting of ministers
from different nations) on air transport in Ethiopia, Africa's
transport authorities failed to reach a common position on an offer
from the European Union (EU) to develop and implement one
reciprocal agreement for the skies above both continents.
It was back in 1970 that Roy Brett's plane was believed to have
been caught in a storm and disappeared. Nothing was heard from or
found of Brett or his plane for 37 years, until now, reported the
Mission Record.
Three people, including two physicians, died Saturday when their
2006 olumbia 350 bounced on landing at a private mountain
airstrip, hit two other planes and all three caught fire, the FAA
said.
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"It's very realistic. It's as good as anything I've
trained on. It's spectacular."
Source: Four-time space shuttle astronaut
Charlie Bolden, commenting on the $60 million, 44,000-square foot,
privately-funded adventure ride that opened to the public Friday at
Kennedy Space Center.