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Ogden High School students are making their own biodiesel fuel out of used cooking oil (right) and using a small jet engine (bottom) to test the fuel, possibly leading neighbors and fellow students to wonder if a jet is taking off nearby. (Photo composite by MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD and BRYAN NIELSEN/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden High students all revved up over biodiesel fuel

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 6:06am

OGDEN — Neighborhood residents and students in and around Ogden High School may wonder why it sounds like a jet has been taking off over the past couple of weeks — but it’s just a little engineering being put to good use.

Students in Roger Snow’s principles of engineering class are getting hands-on experience using recyclable energy by creating biodiesel fuel and then running it through a small jet engine.

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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, seen here in 2004, is confident Hill Air Force Base will survive upcoming BRAC hearings. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Hatch, Bishop: Hill Air Force Base will survive

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 6:33am

LAYTON — The Falcon Hill public/private venture, the Utah Test and Training Range and the support and patriotism area residents demonstrate for the military are a few reasons Hill Air Force Base will weather $10 trillion in proposed military budget cuts.

That statement came Monday, courtesy of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah.

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Horace Mann Elementary fifth-graders control their station during a mock orbiter launch at Odyssey Elementary School's Astro Camp in Ogden on Thursday. (KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner)

Astro Camp initiates learning about mission control in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 10:48pm

OGDEN — Liftoff was touch and go for the cockpit crew of the orbiter Phoenix. For one thing, the astronauts got only little more than an hour of mission training, as opposed to the 18 months usually required by NASA.

Then there was the fact that the ground staffs of both Mission Control and the Operations Center, also new to their jobs, could not pronounce some of the complex names of the technical systems they were trying to power up and lock down. And to top it off, there was the distracting group of kindergartners standing around a piano in the hallway, singing about colors and raindrops.

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The Falcon Hill ICBM building is seen at Hill Air Force Base on Monday. (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

ICBM building stokes hopes for future of Hill, surrounding cities

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 10:34pm

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The ribbon cutting for the five-story Falcon Hill ICBM building further “cements” the viability of Hill Air Force Base and its future in remaining the state’s largest single-site employer, officials say.

Dignitaries, along with a crowd of about 150 people, gathered Monday to officially open the 151,783-square-foot building constructed for the ICBM defense contractor team led by Northrop Grumman.

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Steve Moore, division manager of Barnes Aerospace in Ogden, holds up the Shingo Silver Medallion prize to show to employees at the Barnes Group Aerospace Ogden facility in the Business Depot Ogden on Wednesday. The Shingo Prize is given to organizations doing exceptional work in business improvement in hopes it will motivate others to learn from those organizations.

Barnes Aerospace wins Shingo Silver Medallion award

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 6:32am

OGDEN -- With machines humming in the background, employees of the Ogden Division of Barnes Aerospace gathered to receive the Shingo Silver Medallion at a ceremony Wednesday morning.

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WSU hopes new aerospace master's program out of this world

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 11:32pm

OGDEN -- Weber State University trustees on Tuesday gave final approval to a new master's of business program in aerospace management.

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Huge private plane planned to launch spaceships

Donna Blankinship, Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 4:48pm

SEATTLE -- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the world's biggest plane to help launch cargo and astronauts into space, in the latest of several ventures fueled by technology tycoons clamoring to write America's next chapter in spaceflight.

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Report warns: Space missions injure astronauts, need more in corps

Mark K. Matthews Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 9:19pm

WASHINGTON — Like a veteran NFL team, NASA’s aging astronauts are piling up injuries — raising concern that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its 61-member corps will have enough healthy astronauts available for rigorous six-month shifts aboard the International Space Station, according to a new report.

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Randall Robert Lagan

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 11:14pm

Randall Robert Lagan, 82, of Ogden, died Tuesday, August 30, 2011. A graveside service will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, September 3, at the Lindquist’s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit family from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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(PAT SULLIVAN/The Associated Press) Shuttle mission specialist Sandra Magnus (left) and commander Christopher Ferguson train in a shuttle flight simulator at Johnson Space Center in Houston in June.

Astronauts packing for home aboard ISS

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 10:04am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The astronauts making NASA's last shuttle flight gave up their off-duty time Sunday and finished packing up their gigantic suitcase for the ride home.

The 10 space travelers cheered as they put the final items in Raffaello, the Italian-made cargo canister that's the size of a bus.

More than 5,600 pounds of old space station equipment, packing foam and other trash will return to Earth this week inside Raffaello. Everything is neatly packed and stacked, even if it is junk.

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A team from Utah State University performs an experiment in zero gravity while onboard NASA’s modified Boeing 727 as part of the 2010 Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.

USU to perform experiments in zero-G 'Vomit Comet'

Nancy Van Valkenburg, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 11:37pm

LOGAN -- Troy Munro is back in Houston this week and next, leading a team of other Utah State University student scientists and engineers who will take their first research flight in NASA's "Vomit Comet."

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Giffords watches husband's trip into space

Scott Powers, The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:09pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Rings, a private note and red tulips connect wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to her husband, Mark Kelly, while he commands the 16-day space mission of shuttle Endeavour.

Giffords, the Arizona Democrat recovering from a gunshot wound to the head she received in a January assassination attempt, watched from the roof of Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Control Center with other astronauts’ family members Monday morning as Endeavour blasted toward space.

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(CHRIS O’MEARA/The Associated Press) Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday. Perhaps a half-million people crowded the coast to watch the next-to-last launch in the 30-year history of the shuttle program.

Space shuttle Endeavour launches at last

Scott Powers, The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:06pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The space shuttle Endeavour launched Monday on its final mission, carrying a $2 billion astrophysics device and a little bit of the hearts of thousands of space shuttle workers.

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The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. (John Raoux/Associated Press)

Space shuttle Endeavour makes its last flight - 05/16/11

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 16, 2011 - 4:10pm

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Birth of space industry

Scott Powers The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Saturday, May 7, 2011 - 6:22pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In early May 1961 -- 50 years ago -- the Cold War was at its hottest, and the United States needed a victory, an impressive one.

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