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'Absurd': Thatcher's private papers reveal fury over Lawson's exit
‘Absurd’: Thatcher’s private papers reveal fury over Lawson’s exit
Author: Haroon Siddique / Source: the Guardian
Nigel Lawson may claim that Brexit is finishing the job that Margaret Thatcher started but the prime minister was infuriated by his 1989 resignation, her newly released personal papers reveal.
For the Conservatives, it was a year which had uncanny parallels with today – a prime minister facing questions about her leadership, a party split over…
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Successful NRO/ULA NRO-61 Launch Bolsters Secret Relay
Successful NRO/ULA NRO-61 Launch Bolsters Secret Relay
A ULA Atlas-V 421 rocket launching the classified NRO-61 satellite from Cape Canaveral, FL July 28, 2016. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace The successful launch today of the 11,000 lb. National Reconnaissance Office NRO 61 geosynchronous orbit real time relay spacecraft has given the U.S. a major new capability to speedily forward high resolution imagery and other intelligence data from…
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NASA Shows Off Orion EM-1 Structure at KSC for Inaugural SLS Lunar Flight Test
NASA Shows Off Orion EM-1 Structure at KSC for Inaugural SLS Lunar Flight Test
NASA’s Orion EM-1 pressure vessel on display in the KSC O&C building Feb 3, where it will continue preparations for the maiden flight of NASA’s SLS rocket by end of the decade. The mission, Exploration Mission-1, will put the Orion to the test thousands of miles beyond the moon for several weeks before returning Earth, paving the way for crew missions to follow. Photo Credit: John Studwell /…
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Super Guppy Delivers Orion EM-1 Structure to KSC for 2018 Inaugural SLS Flight
Super Guppy Delivers Orion EM-1 Structure to KSC for 2018 Inaugural SLS Flight
The structure of the first Orion spacecraft destined to fly atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in late 2018 on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida Feb. 1, 2016. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace The Orion spacecraft destined to fly atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) in late 2018 on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is now at…
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Air Force and ULA Reorganize For Competition As Atlas-V Launches GPS 2F-11 Satellite
Air Force and ULA Reorganize For Competition As Atlas-V Launches GPS 2F-11 Satellite
Launch of the Air Force GPS 2F-11 satellite atop a ULA Atlas-V rocket on Oct. 31, 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace The Halloween launch of the Air Force/Boeing GPS 2F-11 satellite on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket begins a season of change for ULA and its new military space competitor SpaceX, who wants to hand ULA its head in future Air Force…
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SpaceX Will Return Falcon-9 to Flight with Orbcomm-2 Mission to Test Rocket's Upper Stage
SpaceX Will Return Falcon-9 to Flight with Orbcomm-2 Mission to Test Rocket’s Upper Stage
The first Orbcomm launch with SpaceX on 14 July, with six Orbcomm Generation-2 (OG-2) satellites onboard. SpaceX is primed to return their Falcon-9 rocket to flight with the next set of Orbcomm satellites in 6-8 weeks. Photo Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace Its been over three months since the loss of the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)-7 Dragon cargo mission to the International Space…
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100% Success as ULA Delivers 100th Mission Safely to Orbit
100% Success as ULA Delivers 100th Mission Safely to Orbit
A ULA Atlas-V 421 rocket successfully launched the Morelos-3 mission for Mexico’s Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (Ministry of Communications and Transportation) this morning, securing a place in ULA’s history books as the 100th flight executed by the company since its formation in December 2006. Morelos-3 marks the 57th Atlas-V launch since its first flight in 2002 and it’s just the…
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