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Awaiting a puff of moon dust
In the predawn hours Friday, while those on the West Coast still snooze, a rocket is scheduled to punch a 13-foot-deep hole in a crater at the moon's south pole that hasn't seen sunlight in billions of years. The purpose: to find out whether ice lies...Tags: George W. Bush, Space Programs, Disasters, Science, Satellite Technology
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Frank J. Low dies at 75; one of the fathers of infrared astronomy
Astronomer Frank J. Low, the experimental genius who developed and distributed sensors for infrared astronomy and performed the first successful observations above the Earth's atmosphere, died June 11 in Tucson after a long illness, the University of...Tags: Space Programs, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Colleges and Universities, Mobile, Companies and Corporations
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Florence Foster dies at 68; whistle-blower shed light on falsified tests of cruise missiles
Florence Foster, an electronics technician who blew the whistle on a tiny Los Angeles-area outpost of Northrop Corp., which led to a massive criminal case involving the falsification of tests on cruise missiles, has died. She was 68.
Foster died July...Tags: Trials, Career and Workplace, Fines, FBI, Fraud
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Company will clean up San Gabriel Valley contamination
GreenspaceDefense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to spend $21 million to clean up polluted groundwater in the San Gabriel Valley. Under a consent decree settlement announced this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the company will... -
Air Force refueling tankers: Pay no attention to taxpayers
Opinion L.A.For the sake of taxpayers and its own armed forces, members of Congress would do well to adjust to the global marketplace and avoid skewing the Air Force tanker competition.... -
Richard Shelby and the Northrop-Boeing tanker war
Opinion L.A.U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) today ... : Sen. Shelby has placed holds on several pending nominees due to unaddressed national security concerns. Among his concerns is that nearly 10 years after the U.S. Air Force announced plans to replace the... -
Federal investigators probe why two planes were on same course near San Francisco
L.A. NOWFederal officials are investigating why a small airplane and commercial airliner were flying toward each other for short period of time Saturday near San Francisco International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that the United... -
Predicting the weather changed forever 50 years ago
L.A. Times Tech BlogAt left: The TIROS-1 satellite in 1960 before its launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. At right: The 44th and final TIROS spacecraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Credits: NASA (left); Lockheed Martin Corp. (right). For much of man's history, the... -
NASA completes first flight with unmanned spy plane
L.A. Times Tech BlogNASA's Global Hawk Credit: NASA/Dryden/Carla Thomas NASA transformed a robotic plane that's typically used by the U.S. military to uncover nests of insurgents into a scientific tool capable of collecting atmospheric information over the Pacific and Arctic... -
Indian Americans come out
MANJEET KRIPALANI, the Edward R. Murrow Press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is writing a book on the effect of India on globalization and globalization on India.THE 2.2 MILLION Indian Americans in the U.S. constitute a model minority, highly educated and well paid. And now, following in the footsteps of earlier immigrant groups such as the Irish, the Jews and the Cubans, Indian Americans are emerging as an...Tags: The Washington Post, Nuclear Policy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Henry J Hyde, John Kerry
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News from around the world
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterInauguration: Tickets and hotels hard to come by WASHINGTON Tickets to balls and other events related to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration will be hard to come by, but you can always join the crowds along the parade route, and Washington tourism...Tags: Nordic Skiing, AirTran, Weather, Marian Anderson, AMC (tv network)
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New Boeing transport plane could keep Long Beach plant open
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSouthern California's last major airplane factory, slated to close in two years, could find new life under a bold plan being floated by Boeing Co. to build a new version of the massive C-17 military cargo plane. The proposal, gaining traction among...Tags: U.S. Army, Disasters, Afghanistan, Lockheed Martin Corp., Plant Openings
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