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  • Obama's commercial spaceflight incurs political wrath

    11:25 04 February 2010Lunar programs ISS Space Shuttle Commercial Launch Services Orbital missions Space Research Routes

    President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget has ended NASA’s 2020 Moon programme while privatising manned spacecraft, incurring the wrath of politicians even before the agency...


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  • NASA's Orion heat shield decision expected this month

    12:00 10 March 2009

    One of the greatest engineering challenges in spaceflight is to protect a spacecraft from the searing heat of re-entry,...


  • PICTURES: SPUTNIK 50 - Images spanning 50 years of spaceflight: past icons and future concepts

    08:19 04 October 2007

    <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">To commemorate Sputnik’s first flight fifty years ago today...


  • Spaceflight picture of the week 31 March 2006

    17:00 31 March 2006

    <BR>This week's picture from a series of&nbsp;unique pictures from the <EM>Flight International</EM> spaceflight...


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  • Lockheed's future in Greenville unclear after inspection

    News | 25 Nov 2010 11:11 | Stephen Trimble

    Lockheed Martin's Greenville site has undergone a key inspection that could determine its long-term prospects ...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Lockheeds-future-in-Greenville-unclear-after-inspection-350099/

  • Obama's commercial spaceflight incurs political wrath

    News | 04 Feb 2010 11:25 | Rob Coppinger

    President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget has ended NASA’s 2020 Moon programme while privatising manned spacecraft, incurring the wrath of politicians even before the agency...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Obamas-commercial-spaceflight-incurs-political-wrath-338000/

  • NASA's Orion heat shield decision expected this month

    News | 10 Mar 2009 12:00 | Rob Coppinger

    One of the greatest engineering challenges in spaceflight is to protect a spacecraft from the searing heat of re-entry, as the fate of the Space Shuttle...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/NASAs-Orion-heat-shield-decision-expected-this-month-323585/

  • PICTURES: SPUTNIK 50 - Images spanning 50 years of spaceflight: past icons and future concepts

    News | 04 Oct 2007 08:19

    <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">To commemorate Sputnik’s first flight fifty years ago today (4<SUP>th</SUP> October 2007), Flightglobal.com has put together a set of fifty space; 25 highlighting significant breakthroughs and innovations of the last 50 years of space travel, the other 25 offering an insight into what the future of space travel may hold. </P> <P>Below is a listing of the images, alternatively you can look at a <A href="http://www.flightglobal.com/AirSpace/photos/space/slideshowpro.aspx" target=_blank>slideshow</A> of the iconic images.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <STYLE type=text/css>.style1 { FONT-WEIGHT: bold } </STYLE> <TABLE width=445 align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR bgColor=#cc99ff> <TD colSpan=2> <DIV align=center> <H2><STRONG>50 Space Images</STRONG></H2></DIV></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=120> <DIV align=center><A href="http://www.flightglobal.com/AirSpace/photos/space/picture4425.aspx" target=_blank><IMG heighthttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/PICTURES-SPUTNIK-50-Images-spanning-50-years-of-spaceflight-past-icons-and-future-concepts-217778/

  • Spaceflight picture of the week 31 March 2006

    News | 31 Mar 2006 17:00

    <BR>This week's picture from a series of&nbsp;unique pictures from the <EM>Flight International</EM> spaceflight archive, which goes back to the very beginning of the space age, is below.<BR> <P align=center><IMG height=297 alt="Spaceflight photograph 31 Mar 06" hspace=2 src="../assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=12144" width=445 vspace=2 border=1></P> <P><BR>Can you identify the artist's impression of a capsule&nbsp;pictured above&nbsp;and can you tell us its significance?<BR><BR>Tell us your thoughts and send us your own amusing caption by emailing&nbsp;<A href="mailto:rob.coppinger@flightglobal.com"><EM>Rob Coppinger, Flight International</EM>'s space reporter.</A>&nbsp; Answers and winning caption will be published next week. Please supply a physical location in your message.<BR><BR><BR> <TABLE borderColor=#000000 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width=445 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=center align=left bgColor=#cedfef><STRONG>Last week's image</STRONG></http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Spaceflight-picture-of-the-week-31-March-2006-205766/

  • ATA says profitability not in sight until late 2003

    News | 11 Mar 2002 23:23 | Aaron Karp

    <body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>US majors believe that only a best-case scenario will yield a profitable quarter by the last half of 2003.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>According to Air Transport Association (ATA) president Carol Hallett, losses are likely to continue in 2002 and “at best, the airline industry hopes to see a profitable quarter in the latter part of 2003”. The ATA, which lobbies on behalf of US majors, has released a “state of the airline industry” report that offers little hope to US airlines looking for a quick turnaround.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The report explains that the 11 September terrorist attacks caused industry finances, which were already the worst they had been in years, to spiral to losses that would have exceededhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/ATA-says-profitability-not-in-sight-until-late-2003-260233/

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  • Mailbag: LBJ, Titanium and Houston, we have a solution.

    Blog | 08 Apr 2010 23:28 | Jon Ostrower

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger//2010/04/mailbag-lbj-titanium-and-houst.html

  • NASA's Orion heat shield decision expected this month

    Blog | 15 Mar 2009 00:00 | Barbara Cockburn

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures//2009/03/nasas-orion-heat-shield-decisi.html

  • JAXA: Hayabusa still hanging in there

    Blog | 05 Feb 2009 09:49 | Rob Coppinger

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola//2009/02/jaxa-hayabusa-still-hanging-in.html

  • VIDEO: Chinese state tv reports final Shenzhou-7 preparations

    Blog | 23 Sep 2008 09:52 | Rob Coppinger

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola//2008/09/video-chinese-state-tv-shenzho.html

  • NASA plans LunarSIM game by 2011

    Blog | 12 Aug 2008 12:45 | Rob Coppinger

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola//2008/08/nasa-plans-lunarsim-game.html

  • High-Watt drama on low-Amp Mars

    Blog | 21 Jul 2007 19:09 | Graham Warwick

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/graham-warwick//2007/07/highwatt-drama-on-lowamp-mars.html

  • Apollo Reborn, almost

    Blog | 19 Sep 2005 22:42 | Rob Coppinger

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flight-international/2005/09/apollo-reborn-almost.html

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