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Space Shuttle Discovery Poised For Liftoff At 9:20 P.M. Wednesday; NASA Solves Problem With Fuel System Flow Control Valves Breaking

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Monday, March 9th, 2009

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Discovery Launch A Day Earlier Than Expected; NASA Likely Can Execute Its Five Planned Space Shuttle Missions This Year, On Schedule Satellites Colliding Raise Risk Of Catastrophic Damage To Space Shuttles, Officials Predict NASA leaders think they have solved the threat of cracked flow control valves breaking and damaging fuel systems on Space Shuttle Discovery, so those senior officials cleared Discovery to launch at 9:20 p.m. Wednesday on the STS-119 Mission to the International Space Station. Experts were able to…

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]

Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]

Army

Lawmakers Request DoD Briefing On Army’s Planned Cuts To Aviation Procurement

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has sent a letter asking the Pentagon for a briefing on the potential industrial base impacts as a result of the Army’s planned cuts […]