WASHINGTON The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has brought in some high-profile management prowess to accelerate the fielding of new missile defense equipment and to quickly deliver new tools such as high-performance boosters, mini kill vehicles and High-Altitude Airship sensor platforms.

WASHINGTON NASA and the Defense Dept. have revamped the Partnership Council responsible for coordinating technology development for civil and national security space activities, a move that may augur reshaping of NASA’s Space Launch Initiative (SLI).

Kennedy Space Center Only hours after NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe indicated here that the launch of game show winners to the International Space Station could be a frivolous use of a unique laboratory by unqualified personnel, the Russian Space Agency said it planned to cooperate with Russian and U.S. television moguls planning such a flight.