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Airline News - Authorities are beginning the investigation into the catastrophic plane crash at Madrid's Barajas International Airport. More than 150 deaths are reported.
The crash of the Spanair MD-82 took place just as the aircraft began to lift off, according to published and broadcast accounts.
The plane was operating as Flight JK5022 and bound for the Canary Islands.
Airline News - A Spanair MD-82 has crashed at Madrid's Barajas International Airport with the loss of at least 153 lives. The plane was heading for the Canary Islands and had just departed when the accident occurred.
The plane crash is reported to be the worst in Spain in 25 years. Initial reports indicate some 19 people have survived the crash of Flight JK5022. Spanair is owned entirely by Scandinavian Airlines, though it is based in Spain.
Space News - The carrier aircraft at the center of Virgin Galactic's plans, White KnightTwo, has rolled out Monday, July 28, 2008, from the Scaled Composites' factory in Mojave, California.
White Knight Two is the atmospheric "first stage" that lifts SpaceShipTwo up to 50,000 feet before releasing the smaller sub-orbital spacecraft for its journey into micro gravity at the edge of space.
AeroSpaceNews.com - After years of service, some of it top secret, the United States Air Force is to retire the F-117A Nighthawk, the first so-called Stealth Fighter, in April 2008.
AeroSpaceNews.com - Lawmakers in the US Congress questioned the Air Force on its decision to award a multibillion-dollar KC-45A tanker contract to European-based EADS (Airbus) and U.S.-based Northrop Grumman Corporation, instead of the Boeing Company, an US manufacturer offering its own tanker and with decades of experience supplying tankers to the United States Air Force.
In a rare and dramatic night launch, the Space Shuttle Endeavour and her crew lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center on their way to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission is STS-123. This is the narrated and edited NASA video that runs from main engine start through Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) separation just over 2 minutes into the flight. There are mentions in the radio calls of issues with the Reaction Control System (RCS).
Airline News - Southwest Airlines finds itself in the cross hairs of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over allegations the carrier has flown numerous flights while failing to comply with mandatory inspections as called for by an Airworthiness Directive (AD).
In a scene straight out of a science fiction movie NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released images taken by their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft showing Martian avalanches, in progress, near the north pole of the red planet.
NASA says these false color pictures were taken February 19th by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE system, as the robotic spaceship was surveying the polar region to monitor seasonal changes in the carbon-dioxide or CO2 frost.
