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...cheaper and more reliable replacement for the shuttle. Along with the cancellation, NASA announced that the shuttle fleet would remain in operation until 2020, meaning that Columbia was supposed to continue flying into outer space even when its airframe was more than 40 years old! True, B-52s have flown as long. But they don't endure three times the force of gravity on takeoff and 2000[degrees] on re-entry...
...list and who doesn't. On July 8, Air France Flight 050 on its way from Paris to Chicago was forced to return to Paris when it was discovered that a passenger was on the no-fly list. Even though the man, who is of Middle Eastern descent, had flown out of the U.S. with no problems a month earlier, the TSA boasted of its quick action. "It's actually a success story for us," said Lauren Stover, a TSA spokeswoman. "[The flight] turned around, but it never even got close to U.S. airspace...
...could be the limit—although Ogunwole’s goals aren’t as high-flown...
...conference, Hasenfus said he was recruited to work in Central America last June by Cooper, the plane's pilot, whom U.S. intelligence sources describe as a veteran of CIA operations and the leader of the airborne contra-aid group in El Salvador. Hasenfus said he and Cooper had both flown missions in Southeast Asia for Air America, a CIA-owned carrier, during the Viet Nam era. Since June, Hasenfus claimed, he had flown on ten missions, four from Aguacate, a contra base in Honduras, and six from Ilopango. He said he was paid $3,000 a month to work...
...wife Sally Jean, who traveled to Nicaragua from Wisconsin. At week's end two coffins containing the bodies of Cooper and Sawyer were unceremoniously dumped outside the U.S. embassy by Nicaraguans just after an anti-American demonstration. Embassy staffers denounced the Sandinista action as "ghoulish." The bodies were later flown back...