Yesterday our team completed a huge milestone by successfully firing what can be considered the most complex solid rocket motor ever built. Congratulations to everyone on the team and good luck on the work ahead.
Advocates of a switch from NASA's Ares I crew launch vehicle to a human-rated commercial launcher for post-shuttle missions to the International Space Station found little comfort in testimony before a key House subcommittee Dec. 2.
Raytheon has adapted the heat-seeking AIM-9X to strike moving targets on the ground or in the water, adding another new capability for the formerly air-to-air-only missile.
World Cup draws haven't been kind to the United States, and Friday's in Cape Town could go a long way to determining whether the Americans get out of the first round next June in South Africa or make a quick exit as they did in 2006.
The long-delayed Angara rocket family, a modular system designed to replace a range of Russian boosters, has finished a series of ground tests and could be put in commercial service to replace the Proton rocket by the middle of the next decade.
US aerospace giant Boeing said Wednesday it had fueled its new 787 Dreamliner in preparation for a first test flight planned this month. "We've already put the fuel into the airplane," Boeing spokeswoman Yvonne Leach told AFP, adding that the operation occurred in recent days.
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