Aerospace
Jacksonville native selected as new NASA astronaut
Christina Hammock is realizing a dream she has had since she was a 6-year-old growing up on the North Carolina coast. The 34-year-old Jacksonville native, who has undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State, is among eight candidates selected to begin astronaut training by NASA. Hammock, currently assigned to ...
easyJet to buy 135 single-aisle Airbus A320s
Budget carrier easyJet agreed Tuesday to purchase 135 single-aisle Airbus jets that will allow the European airline to pack in more passengers than it currently does. The companies said at the Paris Air Show that the British-based airline scooped up 35 current generation A320s and 100 of its A320neo. At ...
NASA plans Thursday rocket launch from Va facility
A rocket carrying students' experiments is scheduled to be launched Thursday from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA says students from across the nation developed the experiments through the RockOn and RockSat-C programs. More than 100 students and instructors are expected to be at Wallops Island for the ...
UMass Lowell team wins NASA robotics contest
A robot that students from University of Massachusetts-Lowell designed has won a NASA contest. School officials say the team designed a robot that they operated with a remote control to test its durability and precision on a terrain that mimicked another planet's surface. The robot was at NASA's Houston training ...
Joint Chiefs chairman visits embattled nuke base
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reassured hundreds of airmen Monday that recent nuclear weapons missteps at their North Dakota base would be corrected, but he didn't elaborate on the "failures of leadership" he blames for causing the problems. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey spoke at a packed-in B-52 ...
Minnesota news in brief at 7:59 p.m. CDT
Ventura wants 'American Sniper' lawsuit to proceed MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura asked a federal judge Monday to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle to go forward with Kyle's widow as the defendant. Ventura claims Kyle defamed him to gain ...
US Army major from Spokane among new NASA trainees
A U.S. Army major from Spokane has been named one of NASA's eight new astronaut trainees. KING-TV reports (http://www.king5.com ) 34-year-old Anne C. McClain is a graduate of West Point and a helicopter pilot. She also recently graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. NASA announced Monday she will ...
Business Highlights
___ Food companies work to make it look natural NEW YORK (AP) — Here's the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection. When stretching out the dough for its premium "Artisan Pizzas," Domino's workers are instructed not to worry about making the rectangles too perfect: The pies ...
Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground
The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. When it's in flight, there's no roar of jet engines. It's strangely quiet. And as it crisscrosses America, the spindly plane doesn't use a drop of fuel. Day, and ...
NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years. Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also is in the group. In fact, four of the eight are women, the highest percentage ...
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