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• Europe aims for re-entry spacecraft
ESA does not plan to develop a reusable re-entry system on the basis of the ATV, but rather an expendable re-entry vehicle," said Marco Caporicci, head of transport and re-entry systems for the ESA Human Spaceflight Directorate. The Advanced Re-entry ...
• Gunbattle breaks out at Thai-Cambodia border
Earlier Wednesday, Thailand put jet fighters on alert at air force bases nationwide and C-130 transport planes on standby at a base in the capital, Bangkok, that could evacuate Thais living in the border area "if the tension escalates to a military ...
• Computer likely caused Qantas in-flight plunge
Julian Walsh, chief air investigator at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, said an initial investigation indicated the cause was a computer unit that detects through sensors the angle of the plane against the airstream. He said one of the plane ...
• October 2008 - Posts
His favored Phils are one win away from their first N.L. pennant in 15 years, but the possible the clincher is being played at the same time as the final McCain - Obama faceoff. Spokesman David Wade says that the Delaware senator has settled on a ...
• Want to ‘find yourself’? Try Oz, ads suggest
... low to Japan's yen. "It's essential that we offer international visitors an experience that they can't get anywhere else, as well as value for money at a time of tight credit," said Christopher Brown of the peak industry group Tourism and Transport ...