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Boeing to Consolidate Delta Launch Vehicle Manufacturing and Assembly![]() Boeing will consolidate all Delta launch vehicle manufacturing and assembly in Decatur, Ala. Beginning this summer, Delta launch vehicle assembly now done at its Pueblo, Colo., facility will transfer to the company's Decatur facility where Delta IV production and testing is done. Shenzhou's Changing Face ![]() As China reinforces its goal of launching its first astronauts before the end of the year, it's time to look at another mystery surrounding China's Shenzhou spacecraft. |
Kitty Hawk To Galileo: A Century Spent Soaring Cloud Nine![]() The flight team for NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft will cease operations on Friday, Feb. 28 after a final playback of scientific data from the robotic explorer's tape recorder. Saturday Morning Space Bubbles ![]() Space station science officer Don Pettit always looks forward to Saturday mornings. Like the other members of the International Space Station's 3-person crew, he's busy most of the week doing research and building the ISS, where he's been living for the past three months. |
![]() Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices, Inc. (EDD), a business unit of The Boeing Company, has completed the development of a lightweight, high efficiency, C-Band traveling wave tube (TWT) for satellite downlink applications. Discovery May Counter Bioterrorists ![]() A compound developed by British scientists early in World War II as a treatment against chemical weapons has value against today's threat of bioterrorism, according to Indiana University School of Medicine researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. |
Is The Space Shuttle Critically Flawed![]() The Columbia inquiry is far from its final conclusion, but many questions have arisen about the safety of the Space Shuttle system. Even if the cause of the fatal accident is found directly in the Shuttle spacecraft itself, the root of its problem could be in the Shuttle's basic design philosophy which has a primary influence on safety and performance. This article discusses the main problems with the Shuttle's design and considers what alternatives were possible during the main system design. Nemesis Follows Hubris, DIY or Not ![]() It was while rock-climbing one summer, high in the mountains of Southern California, that I had the most curious kind of epiphany: the kind you never want to have again. |
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