February 25, 1991

February 25, 1991

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HEADLINE NEWS

NASA to Propose Scaled-Back Station With Simpler Assembly in Space

By JAMES R. ASKER5 min

HEADLINE NEWS

Shuttle Orbiter Umbilical Door Cracks Threaten Air Force/SDI Launch Schedule

By CRAIG COVAULT4 min

HEADLINE NEWS

U. S. Should Loan Ticket Tax Receipts To Keep Airlines Aloft, Continental Chief Says

By CHRISTOPHER P. FOTOS4 min

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HEADLINE NEWS

NASA to Propose Scaled-Back Station With Simpler Assembly in Space

WASHINGTON NASA is nearly ready to present President George Bush and Congress with plans for a space station to be assembled and tested as much as possible on the ground, rather than in space. After three months of redesign work, the agency expects by mid-March to propose a simpler and smaller space station with reduced power, data and experiment capacity and a crew of only four astronauts when it is permanently manned near the year 2000.

By JAMES R. ASKER5 min

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HEADLINE NEWS

Shuttle Orbiter Umbilical Door Cracks Threaten Air Force/SDI Launch Schedule

WASHINGTON NASA and Rockwell International engineers late last week were continuing to assess whether cracks discovered on two critical door hinges on the orbiter Discovery would delay the scheduled Mar. 9 launch of an Air Force/Strategic Defense Initiative mission.

By CRAIG COVAULT4 min

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U. S. Should Loan Ticket Tax Receipts To Keep Airlines Aloft, Continental Chief Says

By CHRISTOPHER P. FOTOS4 min

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Tight Budgets Force ESA to Reconsider Scope, Schedule for Manned Programs

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MTU Wins Government Approval to Buy Former East German Engine Repair Plant

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Commercial Experiment Transporter To Launch Microgravity Experiments

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OPERATION DESERT STORM

Soviet Peace Plan Weighed As Gulf Ground War Looms

Allied forces completed preparations for a full-scale ground war against Iraq last week, as the Bush Administration and its coalition partners considered an 8-step peace plan brokered by the Soviet Union. In one of the major political developments of the war, the Kremlin announced late last week that the Soviet Union and Iraq had agreed upon Iraq’s “full and unconditional withdrawal” from Kuwait.
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OPERATION DESERT STORM

Air National Guard Unit’s F-16 Pilots Say Small Arms Fire Is Primary Threat

CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA Coalition air force pilots in Operation Desert Storm are attacking targets in Iraq and Kuwait from medium to high altitude because of continued heavy antiaircraft artillery and small arms fire encountered during their missions.

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ9 min

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OPERATION DESERT STORM

USAF Moves Refueling Missions North, Shows Control Over Enemy Airspace

CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA US. Air Force has shifted some of its Desert Storm inflight refueling missions into enemy airspace to support the continued heavy flow of combat sorties against Iraqi targets. The movement of certain refueling missions north of the Saudi Arabian border marks an extension of tanker operations in the war, and underscores the near-total control of airspace over Iraq and Kuwait by the Desert Storm coalition.

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ9 min

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AEROSPACE FORUM

Improving Communications, Relaxing Specifications Would Aid Acquisition

In the past, reviews of the weapon systems acquisition process generally have focused on troubled programs and included a litany of perceived causes (usually simplistic) and proposed steps to ensure nothing of this sort ever happened again.
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