Posts Tagged ‘NASA’
 

 

Photos: Hey, Remember When the Space Shuttle Flew Over New York Last Week? That Was Cool!

We've finally recovered from our Space Shuttle Enterprise-arrival hangovers to publish some of our favorite photos of the arrivals and flyovers.
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On This Day in Aviation History: October 1st

Concorde breaks the sound barrier, West Coast Airlines Flight 956 becomes the first fatal DC-9 crash, NASA is born, and the F-86 and XP-59 take their first flights.
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Video: NASA Launches New Weather Satellite Aboard Delta II Rocket

Early Friday morning, a Delta II rocket carrying a climate research and weather forecasting satellite took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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Emergency meeting at the UN about the situation in Syria brought some special visitors to JFK on Monday, including this IL-96 carrying the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.

Final Call: Did Irish Government Try to Dump Aer Lingus on JetBlue?

Ireland denies that it tried to sell its Aer Lingus stock to JetBlue, a New Jersey gets caught with daggers in his carry-on, Airbus and European airlines are warning the EU over its emissions trading plan, and more...
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On This Day in Aviation History: September 23rd

The country's first air mail delivery takes place in New York, Qantas experiences the worst accident in their history, NASA announces it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter, and more...
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