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Passengers who can fly on Airbus' new doubledecker A380, which has yet to prove it can be evacuated within the regulatory time limit...
Houghton, chairman and former chief executive officer of his family’s glassworks company, Corning Inc., is likely at the tail end of his service on the Corporation. At 69 years old, he is a year away from the board’s informal age limit, though the rule has been flouted before. Houghton’s 70th birthday is in April...
...applied and contoured, and they eliminated it altogether in some tricky spots. That was supposed to ensure that no debris heavier than 0.03 lb. broke free. Cameras aboard Discovery suggest that the biggest chunk this time weighed just under a pound--nearly 30 times the limit. "The cameras worked well," said NASA chief Michael Griffin. "The foam...
...with a degree in physics and a chance to do what he had wanted ever since he was 3. At his old grade school in Avondale, Ariz., where his sister teaches, there were shuttle-shaped posters saying YOU ARE MY HERO, MICHAEL ANDERSON and THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. A new model of the space shuttle had just arrived, and kids flocked to it in the library...
...wake of Sept. 11, it's not surprising that many Americans immediately wondered whether terrorism could have been responsible. A shoulder-launched missile could, in theory, bring down an aircraft, but Columbia was well beyond a missile's altitude limit at the time the ship disintegrated. The idea that an explosive could have been smuggled aboard got no serious attention. It would be almost impossible for even the most committed terrorist to breach NASA security, all the more so with the heightened protection thrown up around a ship carrying an Israeli astronaut celebrated for having participated in the attack...