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NASA Orion Splashdown Tests Ensure Safe Landings For Astronauts
HAMPTON, Va. — The 18,000-pound test article that mimics the size and weight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft crew module recently completed a final series of water impact tests in the Hydro Impact Basin at the agency’s Langley Research Center in… Continue reading
Space Station crew landed in Kazakhstan
A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday, mission control said.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers have spent… Continue reading
US F-15 crashes in Mideast, crew ejects safely
The U.S. Air Force says one of its F-15E fighter jets has crashed on a routine training mission in the Middle East. Both crew members ejected safely.
The Air Force says the crash happened late Thursday morning in southwest Asia,… Continue reading
Safe skies on satellite’s return
It didn’t happen – but it might have: the Network Management Directorate was on stand-by for the possible uncontrolled re-entry of the Russian satellite, Phobos Grunt, into Europe’s busy airspace.
Phobos Grunt, a satellite aiming to collect soil samples from… Continue reading
First Operational US Navy Growler Squadron ‘Safe for Flight’
From Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Public Affairs
NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. (NNS) — Electronic Attack (VAQ) 132 received the official notification in a Sept. 22 Navy message from Capt. Tom Slais, Commander Electronic Attack Wing, U.S. Pacific… Continue reading