US Air Force Struggles With Aging Fleet
By Eric Talmadge TOKYO (AP) – For decades, the U.S. Air Force has grown accustomed to such superlatives as unrivaled and unbeatable. These days, some of its key combat aircraft are being described with terms like geriatric, or decrepit. The aging of the U.S. Air Force, a long-simmering topic in defense circles, made a brief [...]
Electric Boat Group Imagines Future Submarines
By Jennifer McDermott GROTON, Conn. (AP) – Nearly everyone at Electric Boat is focused on current submarine programs. Three people are not. They are the concept formulation group, or in EB lingo, CONFORM. Their sole job is to figure out how today’s submarines can be made to do more and how future submarines should be [...]
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Arrives At Space Station
By Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – A private company successfully delivered a half-ton of supplies to the International Space Station, the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA. The SpaceX cargo ship, called Dragon, eased up to the orbiting lab, and station astronauts reached out with a robot arm and snared [...]
Regulations, Cost Keep Cars Looking The Same
By Dee-Ann Durbin DETROIT (AP) – When Jim Mattison was growing up in the early 1950s, he remembers visiting Detroit car dealerships with his family each fall to check out the new models. By the time he was in kindergarten, he could name any car’s make and model just by looking at the hubcaps. “At [...]
35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For The Stars
By Alicia Chang PASADENA, California (AP) – Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars. Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new realm of space – the first time a manmade object will have escaped to the other side. Perhaps no [...]
