SpaceX claims they have “been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year.” According to SpaceX the citizens have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission.
A statement issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that the agency’s initial investigation indicates the light plane crash in East Hartford, Connecticut, on 12 October 2016, near a Pratt & Whitney plant, is the result of an intentional act.
SpaceX Dragon Splashes Down Safely In Pacific – SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:47 a.m. EDT Friday, 26 August 2016, southwest of Baja California with more than 3,000 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station.
FAA Grants Indonesia Category 1 Airline Safety Rating: Revised Rating Allows Indonesian Air Carriers To Establish Service To The United States and Carry the Code of U.S. Carriers.
NASA says it has selected five green aviation technology concepts that have the potential to reduce aircraft fuel use and emissions.
FAA Announces Final Commercial Drone Regulations: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it has published the final regulations for Part 107 operational rules of commercial drone operations (small unmanned aircraft systems or UAS).
RANS Designs says their RANS S-20LS Raven has earned a special airworthiness certificate in the light-sport category (SLSA) from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and that the company will now offer a factory built version along with the previously available kit version available in the experimental category.
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He has also served as staff AeroSpace Expert at KFWB Newsradio, contributed multiple cover stories to Aviation Week and Space Technology, along with on-camera and behind the scenes expertise to programs on the Military Channel, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel.
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