Mon, Nov 10, 2014
A City-sponsored ballot initiative has passed in Santa Monica, California, leaving the future of Santa Monica Municipal Airport in the hands of the City Council that has been trying to close it.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield made quite a splash with his video rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" recorded while on orbit aboard the International Space Station. But when the original one-year agreement between Hadfield and Bowie expired, the video was pulled from YouTube. It’s reported that the astronaut, the Canadian Space Agency, David Bowie, and Bowie's publisher immediately went to work to create a new deal that would allow the video to live on. Moon Express, a privately-funded start-up with headquarters in Silicon Valley, hopes to begin flight testing of its lunar lander in a few days with an eye towards claiming the Google Lunar XPRIZE. All this... and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 11.07.14 is chock full of info in this news period ending Friday, November 7th, 2014...
Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- Santa Monica Airport Stays Under City Council Control
- Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' Cover Back On YouTube
- Moon Express Plans Lander Test Flights
- FAA Issues Final Rule Updating Aircraft Icing Standards
- Safari Helicopters To Offer Superior Air Parts XP-360 Engine
- Barnstorming: Sometimes, Especially When All The Facts Are Far From Known, Its Perfectly OK To Say, “I Don’t Know.”
- NASA Armstrong Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of LLRV First Flight
- U.S. Support For ISS To Continue Through 2024
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, in just a few days!
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