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NASA

• NASA Updates Shuttle Atlantis' Move To Launch Pad Tuesday
Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
—Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT
• NASA And Challenger Center Combining Efforts For Students
NASA and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria, Va., announced Thursday a cooperative Space Act Agreement.
—Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT
• NASA Renames Observatory For Fermi, Reveals Entire Gamma-Ray Sky
NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays.
—Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT
• NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out of Victoria Crater
NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.
—Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT
• NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis To Move To Launch Pad Saturday
NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis To Move To Launch Pad Saturday
—Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

SPACE.com

• Drilling Into Alien Oceans
A new method of exploring thick icy sheets and below them has been devised.
—Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:55 EST
• Putting the Jelly in the Space Donut
Different kinds of observations combine to put the "jelly in the donut."
—Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:55 EST
• Powerful Cosmic Collision Creates Divorce of Matter
A violent merger between galaxy clusters has split dark matter from ordinary matter
—Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:55 EST
• BLOG: Space Station Dodges Orbital Junk

—Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:55 EST
• Dead Star Shines Bright
Gamma rays observed in the Crab Nebula may shed light on the intense environment around the dead star inside.
—Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:55 EST

EAA

• EAA Defends Homebuilts' Access To Airports
EAA President Tom Poberezny today offered perspectives from EAA's amateur aircraft-building community to an airport official who, in the aftermath of an accident involving an amateur-built aircraft, publicly called for federal policies that could restrict the operation of experimental-category aircraft at metropolitan airports.
—Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:07:53 GMT
• Member Comments Reinforce EAA's Message: Enforce Existing 51% Rule
For the past several months, EAAers have contacted FAA policymakers, urging them not to weaken the homebuilt movement and the innovations that it engenders, as the agency tightens its enforcement practices.
—Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:53 GMT
• Virginia Aviation Council Announces Dates Through 2011
Following its successful debut this year at the Suffolk Executive Airport, the Virginia Aviation Council announced recently it will continue to hold the Virginia Festival of Flight there through 2011.
—Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:53 GMT
• Israeli EAA Members Help Create Amateur-Building Rule
Four years of work paid off for EAA members and ultralight enthusiasts in Israel, as that nation's aviation authority has approved the first rules allowing amateur-built aircraft in that country.
—Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:53 GMT
• Cessna Training Package Winner Anxious to Get Started
Michael Surls, EAA 306048, of Marshall, Michigan, has been an EAA member since 1988 and a frequent AirVenture Oshkosh attendee over the years.
—Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:46:14 GMT

Scott with Walter Cronkite Scott and Alice Scott with J. Doolittle Scott and family
Scott in his youth Scott with son Tom Scott honored by Regan Scott with Bill Lear
Speaking at NASA Dryden Scott with Chuck Yeager Riding Dooley On Airplane
with daughter, Sally Scott with JFK and sons Tom and Paul X-15 Pilots Arlington Cemetary
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Follow the links below for more information on aviation: Be sure to see the NCASE site for full information about the National Conference for Aviation and Space Education, scheduled for October 16 through 18, 2008, in Arlington, Virginia. This conference is the largest educational conference devoted solely to aviation and space education.




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