Finland-based company buys Aviation Systems Maintenance - Bizjournals.com
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Vehicle Makers Work on Weight Reduction
51 minutes ago
Less weight but more sustainability and maneuverability seen as key goals for next wave of military ground vehicles.
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Sikorsky Aerospace Services Announces $4M Contract to Provide ... - PR Newswire (press release)
1 hour 54 minutes ago
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NASA Moves On Moon-Rocket Procurement
2 hours 54 minutes ago
Action comes just before Obama inauguration; support for 'Moon, Mars and Beyond' program unknown in new House, Senate
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Research and Markets: Global Military Aerospace Products ... - Business Wire (press release)
3 hours 52 minutes ago
The IBISWorld Global Military
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Israel's Gaza operation highlights limitations of air power - Flight International
4 hours 1 minute ago
Television coverage showed Israel
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Airlines Sue FAA Over Crew Rest Changes
5 hours 50 minutes ago
FAA used flawed process for ultra-long range flight rules, carriers say. But pilots applaud rules as a good first step.
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Range, Payload Still Key In Choosing CSAR-X
6 hours 23 minutes ago
This time it appears the Air Force is looking to make its decision as protest-proof as possible, sources
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Ahead of the Bell: Aerospace & defense companies - Forbes
6 hours 33 minutes ago
AP , 01.06.09, 09:12 AM EST Commercial
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Vice Premier: Aviation sector needs to deepen reform - China Daily
6 hours 51 minutes ago
BEIJING - China's civil
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Taiwan-Japan aviation talks to be held in late Feb. in Tokyo - eTaiwan News
6 hours 59 minutes ago
6 (CNA) Taiwan-Japan
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F-22 provides credible deterrent for US - United Press International
7 hours 25 minutes ago
Stevens told a defense and
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Microsemi Announces DSCC Qualification On Diode Arrays for Defense ... - MarketWatch (press release)
7 hours 25 minutes ago
This rugged construction is particularly well suited for defense and
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Morgan Crucible to take majority stake in NP Aerospace - Proactive Investors UK
7 hours 40 minutes ago
The Morgan Crucible Co PLC said it is increasing its equity stake in NP
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No injuries in back-to-back American incidents
16 hours 7 minutes ago
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Continental Airlines traffic plummets 12.1%
16 hours 27 minutes ago
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Frontier Pilots Ratify Long-Term Pay Cut
16 hours 30 minutes ago
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United Airlines Traffic Down 11.5% Year Over Year
17 hours 30 minutes ago
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General Dynamics closes on AxleTech buy
20 hours 15 minutes ago
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Traffic To Fall For First Time Since 1991
22 hours 25 minutes ago
IATA's projection for 2009 airline traffic is far worse than previously forecast; recovery should start by 2011.
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JetBlue pays discrimination settlement
23 hours 32 minutes ago
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Alitalia Expected To Pick Partner This Week
1 day 35 minutes ago
Air France-KLM and Lufthansa are competing to acquire 25% stake; unions already have accepted smaller workforce
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Poised to Plunge: Delta Air Lines
1 day 44 minutes ago
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Obama flies United home to Chicago
1 day 1 hour 6 minutes ago
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United to lay off fewer workers
1 day 1 hour 10 minutes ago
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XM Outage Darkens Garmin Weatherlink
1 day 1 hour 15 minutes ago
Owners of Garmin weatherlink-capable portable navigators found themselves flying blind over the weekend because of an as-yet-to-be diagnosed technical fault that may be days away from a solution. Spokespersons for both Garmin and WxWorx, which massages the weather data for delivery through the XM Radio system, told AVweb on Monday morning that no one seems to know why the failure occurred or when it will be fixed. Evidently, the failure affects only some GPSmap396, 496 and 696 models, but not the panel-mounted G1000 system. Also, Garmins marine portables, which receive marine-related weather datalink, are similarly unaffected. One possible fix, says Garmin, is to refresh the XM receiver, which you can do by typing www.xmradio/refresh into a Web browser and then entering your receiver code. (Its on the back of the puck-type Smart Antennas.) Make sure the antenna has a view of the sky for at least 30 minutes. Garmin says it doesnt expect a solution before the middle of this week.
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Bombardier signs rail deal worth up to US$2.1B with Germany's Deutsche Bahn
1 day 2 hours 23 minutes ago
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GKN To Diversify Airbus Wing Business
1 day 3 hours 42 minutes ago
GKN Aerospace is stepping up diversification of the Airbus wing-component facility it took ownership of today.
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Shaheen gave style to Hawaiian shirts
1 day 3 hours 48 minutes ago
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India Orders Eight Boeing P-8Is
1 day 4 hours 21 minutes ago
Order, for aircraft to replace eight TU-142s, is first direct military sale by Boeing to India and includes 30% offsets
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UBS Bizjet Survey Reflects Continued Weakness
1 day 5 hours 23 minutes ago
The survey indicates a market with 'few serious buyers, too much supply and pricing that has fallen more than 25%'
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India signs $3b Boeing deal
1 day 6 hours 26 minutes ago
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Atlanta-bound Delta jet diverted to Canada
1 day 8 hours 7 minutes ago
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The Fairchild Corp. loses execs
1 day 13 hours 53 minutes ago
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Snowfall Snaps Wing Off Rare Vintage Plane
1 day 14 hours 30 minutes ago
Click for more photosIt outlasted the Second World War and survived 40 years on the bottom of the Pacific but a heavy snowfall has felled the last remaining Handley Page Hampden bomber. Volunteers at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, British Columbia, are appealing for help to put the little-known but historically significant aircraft back together again after snow broke the left wing off the twin-engine bomber. Like many small museums, the facility has to store some of its collection outside and that's not normally a problem in the usually temperate coastal area of B.C. But this year the area has been slammed with half a dozen snowstorms and, while museum volunteers did their best to clear the snow, an especially big dump on Dec. 26 was too much for the Hampden.
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FBO of the Week: Montgomery County Aviation (Wings Field at KLOM, Blue Bell, PA)
1 day 15 hours 45 minutes ago
>>> AVWEB FUEL FINDERCURRENT PRICE FOR 100LL: $4.15 (down 5¢ from last week)CURRENT PRICE FOR JET A: $4.08 (down 8¢ from last week)Fuel prices provided weekly by AirNav, based on prices from the past 2 weeks. Changes are relative to last week's prices. /TEXT_ONLY-->AVweb's "FBO of the Week" ribbon goes to an FBO that's taken the honor once before, back in 2007.AVweb reader Daniel Stegeman recommended Blue Bell, Pennsylvania's Montgomery County Aviation this time around:[This] is not a fancy FBO. However, every day of the week rain, sun, wind you will be greeted with a smile as soon as you land. They will be at your plane asking how they can help and what you need. I fly in and out of KLOM often ... and every arrival is the same: first class service without exception. From mechanical issues to fuel or directions, [these guys are] always helpful. ... It's not uncommon to have good service at many FBOs, but ... Montgomery County Aviation should be your "FBO of the Week" because they do it right all the time.Duly noted, Daniel! We couldn't agree more, and that's why MCA gets a second nod from AVweb as this week's leader of the pack.Keep those nominations coming. For complete contest rules, click here.AVweb is actively seeking out the best FBOs in the country and another one, submitted by you, will be spotlighted here next Monday!
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Video of the Week: Canyonlands Flying in a Piper Cherokee
1 day 15 hours 45 minutes ago
Did someone say "backcountry flying"? It doesn't get more majestic than this video AVweb reader Alan Loehr pointed out to us recently. Sit back and enjoy several of Arizona and Utah's most breath-taking sites, seen through the canopy of a Piper Cherokee 140 and edited together into a couple of minutes by YouTube user webdaddy. (Click through to watch.)
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New AOPA President Craig Fuller Steps In For Boyer
1 day 16 hours 15 minutes ago
On Dec. 31, 2008, Phil Boyer stepped down as AOPA's third president and handed the reins of the general aviation advocacy group to incoming president, Craig Fuller, who spoke of the challenges and opportunities he sees ahead. Fuller has already met with the Obama administration's transition team and written the incoming president to express AOPA's eagerness to work with the president-elect toward the goals of modernizing air traffic control, seeking long-term financing of the aviation infrastructure, addressing environmental issues and managing aviation security. "Aviation is an integral part of this country's infrastructure, and economy," Fuller wrote to Obama, "and I can assure you that AOPA is ready to work with you on the pressing issues facing the aviation industry." Fuller steps into his office committed to AOPA's support of passenger ticket taxes and general aviation fuel excise taxes in the place of a proposed user-fee system as a source of funding for the FAA.
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Cirrus Goes Back To Work, Suppliers Too
1 day 16 hours 15 minutes ago
Cirrus Design Corp. begins production Monday after a month-long winter hibernation prompted by slow sales. The company's awakening means 500 furloughed employees will gradually be recalled and that means suppliers will soon be stirring in their dens as well. The ramp-up is not expected to be light-switch quick, but rather will take some time. Cirrus is capable of producing 16 aircraft per week, but the company has its sights set at half of that to reflect current market conditions. Cirrus suppliers were hit hard by the company's work stoppage, but some have used the downturn to diversify. Cirrus plans to recall each of 165 workers to its Grand Forks facility, and about 265 of 335 to its Duluth facility by the end of the week. The company provided insurance benefits for its workers throughout its month-long shutdown and "offered supplemental pay to complement unemployment," according to the Duluth News Tribune.
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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report On Connell Crash
1 day 16 hours 15 minutes ago
The NTSB has released its preliminary report on the Piper Turbo Saratoga crash on approach to Akron-Canton airport Dec. 19, 2008, that killed Michael Connell, Republican media consultant and chief IT consultant for Karl Rove. The crash ignited the minds of conspiracy theorists aware that Connell had been subpoenaed for expert testimony regarding alleged electronic voter fraud in 2004, and amid one report by a CBS affiliate that Connell had been warned his plane might be sabotaged. The NTSB's early findings are subject to change and may contain errors but state that "no anomalies were noted with the flight control system that would have precluded normal operation." The report notes that damage to the propeller is consistent with a power-on impact and the landing gear was extended. The NTSB found that the instrument-rated Connell had received radar vectors that provided an intercept to the ILS approach for Runway 23, about two miles from the outer marker. The report states that, as the plane was inbound from the outer marker, "ATC advised [the aircraft] that it was left of course." After that, things -- including already poor weather conditions -- got progressively worse.
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2008 Not A Good Year For Charity Flight Fatalities
1 day 16 hours 30 minutes ago
Last year, at least 24 people died in crashes of U.S.-operated non-profit medical service and aid flights, a sharp increase in that only 16 were killed during the previous eight years. This year's carnage is stirring calls for more regulation, according to an article published Friday by USA Today, but those figures may paint a slanted picture. More than two-thirds of those killed in 2008 died in one plane crash, when 15 aid workers and two pilots were lost when their aircraft crashed in the Congo. A total of seven people, including three medical patients, were killed in three flights in the U.S. over the course of three months. According to USA Today, each of those flights was arranged through the Angel Flight network and the news agency found one NTSB member who, in voicing his own opinion, "said the government should consider increasing standards on such flights." Although there's no indication any new regulations or laws are on the way, some fear any move in that direction could constrict operations that currently offer more than 20,000 safe charity flights per year.
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AirTran Apologizes To Muslims Kept From Plane
1 day 16 hours 30 minutes ago
AirTran Airways has apologized to nine people (including three children, ages 7, 4, and 2, and two women) who were directed to stay off of their flight before departure Thursday afternoon from Reagan National bound for Orlando, after they were overheard discussing where on the aircraft would be the safest place to sit. That conversation apparently led to security concerns among other passengers who may have been influenced by the group's apparent South Asian descent and traditionally Muslim appearance -- the men wore beards and the women wore headscarves. An AirTran spokesman defended the company's handling of the incident, which included deplaning all 104 passengers for re-screening, taking a second look at their luggage and conducting a security sweep of the aircraft, before departing without the aforementioned nine. The decision to expel the group was ultimately made by the flight's captain, who was aware that passenger complaints had reached two federal air marshals aboard the flight, and that those two individuals had in turn reported the situation to airport police. As one of those ejected from a flight he initially paid for, Abdur Razack Aziz told the Washington Post, "Nothing came out of it. It was paranoid people. It was very sad."
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Pratt & Whitney Bullish On Geared Turbofan
1 day 16 hours 30 minutes ago
Twenty years in development, the new geared turbofan engine from Pratt & Whitney is currently nearing the completion of tests and the company sees big things in its future. The engine is designed to cut fuel burn by 12 percent, compared to the most modern engines currently available, and should be scalable. "We see the geared turbofan concept playing out for the whole future family of engines," Pratt & Whitney President Steve Finger recently told Reuters. Pratt hopes that after 2013 the engines will find a broad range of applications, beginning with upcoming regional jet aircraft from Bombardier and Mitsubishi and scaling up to produce more than 95,000 pounds of thrust. "Whatever happens" said Finger, "we don't believe anyone can bring anything that can compare with a geared turbofan for a long time."
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Ball to Announce Fourth Quarter, Full Year Earnings on Jan. 29
1 day 21 hours 54 minutes ago
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Interview: The GE man with a UN diplomat's agenda
2 days 6 hours 13 minutes ago
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Continental Goes Green
2 days 14 hours 25 minutes ago
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Plane crash couple 'just married'
2 days 19 hours 1 minute ago
A couple killed in a light aircraft crash in Staffordshire had got married just months earlier.
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The Fairchild Corporation Announces Management Changes
2 days 20 hours 40 minutes ago
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Navy to consider closing case of missing pilot
3 days 3 hours 45 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of a Navy pilot missing since his plane was shot down during the first Gulf war isn't ready to give up hope that he is alive and say they will oppose any decision to declare him killed in action....
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Obama to move to counter China in space with Pentagon-NASA Link
3 days 4 hours 47 minutes ago
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Goodrich and Rolls-Royce Complete Engine Controls Joint Venture
3 days 13 hours 2 minutes ago
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Three feared dead in plane crash
3 days 19 hours 36 minutes ago
Three people are now believed to have died when a plane crashed into the West Coast Main Line in Staffordshire.
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Airline apologizes for removing Muslim passengers
4 days 34 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- AirTran Airways is apologizing to nine Muslim passengers kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. One of the passengers says the confusion started at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., when his brother was talking about the safest place to sit on an airplane....
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UK troops hand back Basra Airport
4 days 21 hours 38 minutes ago
A milestone in the completion of the British mission in Iraq is achieved with the handover of Basra International Airport.
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Stores to airlines, many brands vanished in 2008
5 days 14 hours 20 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shoppers won't be picking up ornate lamps from the Bombay Co. in the coming year. Or investing with Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. No flying to Hawaii on Aloha Airlines or buying ultra-cheap tickets on Skybus, either....
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NASA chief's wife to Obama: Don't fire my husband
5 days 18 hours 46 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife. Rebecca Griffin, who works in marketing, sent her message with the subject line "Campaign for Mike" to friends and family. It asked them to sign an online petition to President-elect Barack Obama "to consider keeping Mike Griffin on as NASA Administrator."...
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NASA reports graphic details of Columbia deaths
1 week 3 hours 44 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts....
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NZ airline flies jetliner partly run on veggie oil
1 week 8 hours 28 minutes ago
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight Tuesday to test a biofuel that could lower airplane emissions and cut costs, Air New Zealand said....
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Pilot killed in jet crash near NC Marine base
1 week 1 day 1 hour 1 minute ago
HAVELOCK, N.C. (AP) -- The military says a Marine jet crash near a base in eastern North Carolina has killed the pilot....
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Travelers hunker down for Christmas Eve at airport
1 week 5 days 18 hours 35 minutes ago
CHICAGO (AP) -- With airports across the country recovering from a blast of snow and ice storms, some unlucky holiday travelers stranded for the second night in a row prepared to wake up Christmas morning at the nation's second busiest airport....
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Airlines warned over compensation
2 weeks 10 hours 12 minutes ago
The EU's top court says passengers must be compensated in most cases where flights are cancelled for technical reasons.
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Heathrow marks Lockerbie tragedy
2 weeks 2 days 9 hours 1 minute ago
Some 300 people are expected to attend a service in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy.
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Passenger jet goes off Denver runway; several hurt
2 weeks 2 days 17 hours 28 minutes ago
DENVER (AP) -- A Continental Airlines jet taking off from the Denver airport went off the runway and caught fire Saturday night, forcing more than 100 passengers to evacuate on emergency slides and injuring at least seven people, officials said....
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Ho-Ho-Ho, You're on stage ... at airport karaoke
2 weeks 3 days 2 hours 59 minutes ago
HOUSTON (AP) -- Tis the season for red-capped Santas and red-nosed reindeers. Sleigh bells ringing and snowflakes glistening. Stockings carefully hung and yuletide carols being sung ... in an airport terminal. With a karaoke machine....
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Protest at runway extension plan
2 weeks 3 days 8 hours 25 minutes ago
Campaigners opposed to a runway extension at George Best Belfast City Airport hold a protest at the airport.
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Nasa finds 'missing' Mars mineral
2 weeks 4 days 20 hours 13 minutes ago
A US probe spots rocks on Mars that suggest the planet would have been more hospitable for life than previously thought.
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Nasa set to launch 'CO2 hunter'
2 weeks 5 days 9 hours 47 minutes ago
The US space agency is planning to launch a satellite that can map where all the carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.
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AirplaneForSale.tv Makes It Easier To Sell Your Aircraft
1 month 11 hours 0 minutes ago
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NASA Shuttle Endeavour Live TV Coverage - Space News
1 month 3 weeks 23 hours 0 minutes ago
Space News - Enjoy the live NASA Television video feed of Shuttle Endeavour; the STS-126 mission to the ISS (International...
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