D.S. Brown's Runway Seals Used at New Spaceport America Facility in New Mexico
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
When Virgin Galactic's first tourist flight blasts off from the new Spaceport America facility in New Mexico, The D.S. Brown Company said it will have played a small but important part in enabling the next generation of space travel. In a release, D.S.
Engineers were in the early stages of drilling an escape route Tuesday for 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground, but officials warned their ordeal may last until Christmas.
Canadian airport security screening staff have been informed there will be future cutbacks in their area as the travel industry copes with a downturn in passengers through many of the country's terminals.
Your comments invited on vintage images NASA is inviting the public to peruse some of of its best snaps on Flickr archive photo section The Commons, and has posted a few choice examples, including the first space shuttle launch back in 1981:...
Questioning continues of detained plane passengers in the Netherlands
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Authorities continued Tuesday to question two men held in the Netherlands after landing on a flight from Chicago, Illinois, Dutch prosecutors told CNN.
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Beijing, Aug 31 : Families and relatives of the people who died in the Aug 24 plane crash in Yichun city will receive 960,000 yuan (141,100 dollars) in compensation for each death.
NASA's new chatty robot astronaut is a regular on Facebook and Twitter
Monday, 30 August 2010
Melbourne, Aug 31 : NASA's latest nut-and-bolt invention Robonaut 2 is quite a piece of work - the first humanoid robot set to blast into space is a regular on Facebook and Twitter, keeping his fans updated about his space journey.
Terror plot feared as Dutch detain two on US plane
Monday, 30 August 2010
Two US residents of Yemeni descent have been arrested in Amsterdam after flying in from Chicago and staging what officials fear may have been a dry run for a terror attack.