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• NASA's Grail Mission (ongoing)
  
  
• ABQ Teen Wins Civil Air Patrol Contest (September 2011)
  
  
• F9/Dragon:  Preparing for ISS (August 2011)

• Educators Take to the Skies for Summer Training  (June 2011)
  
  
• Could the bin Laden Raid Have Revealed a Secret New Helicopter?  (May 4, 2011)
  
  
• 'Synergy' Project Revealed - New aircraft design, Synergy, unveiled at the fifth annual CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS V).  (April 29, 2011)
  
  
• Unmanned Aircraft Flies Over Oslo, Captures Video of Red River Flooding (April 20, 2011)
  Unmanned aircraft system demonstrates its potential as tool to help fight floods.  Open article link, then look down the page to see the video. 
   
• NASA Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour's Launch:  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/04/scitech/main20050416.shtml (April 4, 2011)
  
  
• China Outlines an Ambitious Space Station Plan:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42074836/ns/technology_and_science-space/ (March 14, 2011)
  
  
• NASA to Fly Astronauts on Russian Spaceships at Nearly $63 Million per Seat: http://www.space.com/11125-nasa-russia-soyuz-deal-spaceflights.html (March 14, 2011)
  
  
• Space Station Gets Its Last Habitable Module (March 2, 2011)
  
  
• Navy's First Unmanned Stealth Bomber Completes 29-Minute Test Flight:  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/navys-first-unmanned-stealth-bomber-completes-29-minute-test-flight/  (February 7, 2011)
  
  
• Stuck on the Tarmac - Satellite Navigation: 
  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_06/b4214029473647.htm (January 27, 2011)
   
• New Generation of Unmanned Spy Planes is Being Tested:  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drone-warfare-20110111,0,4325330.story  (January 11, 2011)
   
• Chinese Stealth Fighter Makes First Test Flight:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12588054  (January 11, 2011)
  
  
• Magnetic North Pole Shirts, Forces Runway Closures at Florida Airport:  http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/06/magnetic-north-pole-shifts-forces-closure-florida-airport/  (January 6, 2011)
   
• Kaci Heins, fifth-grade ACE teacher from PEAK School in Flagstaff, AZ, takes to the sky as a participant in CAP's Teacher Orientation Program (TOP) Flights for AEMs:   
  http://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/article_6aeefd63-9c73-5e99-b5ef-365e3aef872f.html  (December 15, 2010)
  
  
• Robotic Drone Flies Itself by Looking at Landscape Below (December 12, 2010)
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/robotic-drone-flies-itself  
   
• SpaceX - Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon Capsule Success (December 8, 2010)
  A Space-age First: A Commercial Craft Returns from Low-Earth Orbit:  http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/index.html?hpt=T2
  
  The Future is Now: SpaceX Flight 100% Successful:  http://www.universetoday.com/81559/the-future-is-now-spacex-100-successful/
  
  
• U.S. Air Force Drone Touches Down Amid Questions (December 3, 2010)
   
• Robots Imitate Honey Bees for Aircraft Aerobatics:  http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=22315 
  (December 1, 2010)
   
• New Estimate Triples Number of Stars to 300 Sextillion:  http://www.gazettenet.com/2010/12/02/new-estimate-triples-number-stars-300-sextillion and http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/01/scientists-sextillion-stars/ (December 1, 2010)
   
• SpaceX Receives FAA License to Return Private Spaceships From Earth Orbit:   http://www.space.com/news/spacex-faa-license-private-spaceship-reentry-101122.html (November 22, 2010)
   
• Sikorsky's X2 - World's Fastest Helicopter: 
  http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/oct/21/sikorsky-bets-worlds-fastest-helicopter-in-palm/  and http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/sikorsky-is-demonstrating-%27fastest-helicopter-in-the-world%27  (October 2010) 
  Although a bit older, the following Sikorsky X2 article contains a good explanation regarding the difference between how airplanes and helicopters fly:  http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/the-fastest-helicopter-on-earth/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=090210.  (September 2010)
   
• Airships for the 21st Century:  http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/airships-for-the-21st-century/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100710  (October 10, 2010)
   
• First Manned Glide Flight for SpaceShipTwo:  http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/2010-10-10_ss2.asp (October 10, 2010)
  
  
• Human Powered Ornithopter  (September 22, 2010)
  
  
• Rich Exoplanet System Discovered:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991 (August 24, 2010) 

Visit other links to stay up-to-date on aerospace news:

• http://www.space.com/
• http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/index.jsp
• http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace 
• http://www.floridatoday.com/space
• http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/default.htm 
• http://www.cnn.com/TECH/
• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3033063/ns/technology_and_science-space/ 
• http://www.aerospacenewsarticles.com/
• CAP's Georgia Aerospace Education DAE Newsletter

Teachers Discover Joy of Flying: http://www.svherald.com/print/85720 (January 17, 2010)

2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html (November 6, 2009)

David Morrison, NASA Astrobiology Institute Senior Scientist, provides answers to questions regarding December 2012 in the article "Doomsday 2012, the Planet Nibiru, and Cosmophobia"  http://www.astrosociety.org/2012/ (September 21, 2009)

Russia Reveals Vision for Manned Spaceflight:  http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/russia-reveals-vision-for-manned (August 2009)

The largest model rocket ever assembled was launched successfully. The 1:10 scale model of the Saturn V was done as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of the moon landings.  (May 1, 2009)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/05/celebrating-the-40th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-in-style.ars 

*Fly-a-Teacher Program:  An Uplifting Experience for Teachers (April 2009)
http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2009/090429teacher.html?WT.mc_id=090501epilot&WT.mc_sect=ast
*Fly-a-Teacher Program is now titled TOP Flights, which stands for Teacher Orientation Program Flights

January 2009 - NASA -Top Science, Exploration and Discovery Stories of 2008

January 2008 - Top 10 most fascinating space news for 2007 according to The Planetary Times.

NASA JPL video shows 2007 major milestones for Jet Propulsion Laboratory studying earth, our solar system and distant galaxies.