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GenCorp. announces leadership for newly formed rocket company
Aerospace and technology firm GenCorp Inc. of Rancho Cordova, Calif. has closed the acquisition deal of rocket engine maker Rocketdyne and named executives to head the new company. GenCorp also owns Aerojet, the Sacramento aerospace firm founded in...
Tags: Technology, NASA, Science and Technology, SpaceX
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Partnership for cruise line The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), founded nearly 200 years ago to advance geographical science, is to...Tags: Silversea Cruises, U.S. Coast Guard, Epic (movie), Petroleum Industry, Daytona International Speedway
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Official: Shuttle-hauling Tundra finds permanent home in science exhibit
Autoblog.comFiled under: Truck, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Toyota The idea of lifting a full-size pickup truck completely off the ground by hand might seem as likely as, say, said pickup truck towing a 150,000-pound space shuttle, but... hurray, physics! The same... -
Space plane arrives at NASA facility for flight testing
A white-and-black space plane, very much resembling the now-retired space shuttle, was trucked to a NASA flight center in the Mojave Desert to begin a round of testing to see if it has the right stuff to carry astronauts one day. Tucked under a white...
Tags: Satellite Technology, Technology, Boeing Co., NASA, Science
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Central Florida theme parks roll out new attractions for 2013
Special CorrespondentThe number “13” is considered unlucky by some, but certainly not for travelers heading for Central Florida in summer of 2013, as this year holds unprecedented expansions at theme parks, accommodations and dining in Orlando and surroundings....Tags: Antarctica, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Personal Service, Universal Studios Orlando, Amusement and Theme Parks
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Retired astronaut encourages Western Heights students to follow dreams
julieg@herald-mail.comRetired NASA astronaut Don Thomas encouraged Western Heights Middle School eighth-graders to follow their dreams and to persevere, as he did. “If you forget everything else I told you here today, the one thing I want you to remember is to never...Tags: Students, NASA, Science, Frederick County (Maryland), Towson
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SpaceX signs lease agreement at spaceport to test reusable rocket
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.SpaceX, the Hawthorne rocket maker, has found a new home for flight testing on its reusable rocket. The company has signed a three-year agreement to lease land and facilities at Spaceport America, the state-owned commercial launch site located 55...Tags: Richard Branson, Virgin Group, Ltd., Satellite Technology, Technology, NASA
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Space station crew 'shed some tears' over shuttle deaths
From Wire ReportsWASHINGTON - Crew members living on the International Space Station said yesterday that they were stunned by the loss of friends aboard the shuttle Columbia, and that they had withdrawn to the recesses of the large ship to cry after learning there were no...Tags: Weather, Defense, Florida, NASA, Louisiana
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Congress' probe to go beyond catastrophe
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - As investigators sort through the wreckage of the space shuttle Columbia, Congress is preparing a major re-evaluation of the space program's budget, its mission and its future course. Key lawmakers are seeking a detailed account of what...Tags: California, Satellite Technology, Budgets and Budgeting, Laws, Florida
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Russia unites with America in grief
Sun Foreign StaffKOROLYOV, Russia - Some appeared red-eyed and anguished, others stoic and somber. They spoke different languages and saluted different flags. But the Russian and American space explorers who gathered at Russia's Mission Control Center here yesterday were...Tags: NASA, Diplomacy, Disasters, Russia, Space Programs
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Lessons in risk and reality
On Feb. 11, 1986, as the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident was plowing through testimony on that January's shuttle disaster, a commission member asked for a glass of ice water. Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist and...Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Florida, NASA, Kennedy Space Center
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Engineer becomes NASA's human face
Sun National StaffHOUSTON - When veteran NASA engineer George Studor tuned in to watch his boss announce the loss of the space shuttle Columbia, he said yesterday, he saw a man he'd never seen before. Studor and millions around the world listened as Ronald W. Dittemore,...Tags: Satellite Technology, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Health and Safety at School, NASA, Disasters
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