United Space Alliance plans to hire hundreds of workers to replace striking union members, at least temporarily. Meanwhile, some members of Congress urged the company to reach a contract agreement with the union.
The space age begins its next 50 years this week, with the United States poised atop an unsettled pyramid of spacefaring nations.
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‘But I would not take that opportunity away from first man or woman from India’
Bill Harwood looks at what has happened — and what hasn’t — 50 years after the Russians launched the little satellite that spurred the Age of Space.
The company that builds items as diverse as grandma’s glass canning jars to advanced optics for the Hubble Space Telescope is looking to expand its business in Huntsville in part by winning a major NASA Ares I rocket contract.
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Many Uncrazy Clevelanders Have Seen Strange Lights In The Sky. Who - Or What - Is Buzzing Northeast Ohio? To suggest that Northeast Ohio could be witness to the next mass UFO sighting does not officially make you a member of the tin-foil hat crowd.
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GenCorp Inc. reported its third consecutive profitable quarter Wednesday, boosted by gains in the company’s defense and aerospace business as well as a substantial one-time tax benefit.
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GenCorp Inc. reported its third-consecutive profitable quarter on Monday, boosted by gains in the company’s defense and aerospace business.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. ( Map ) - For the tenth consecutive year, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) is a leading sponsor of “The Year In Space” Desk Calendar, a 144-page full-color weekly calendar for 2008 featuring images and information from the past, present and future of space exploration and astronomical discovery.
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by Loren B. Thompson Arlington, Va. (UPI) Sep 25, 2007 I know how the world ends, and it isn’t with a whimper. You can see humanity’s epitaph etched in advance by simply gazing up at the moon on any evening and observing the vast craters created by ancient asteroids hitting the lunar surface.
