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In this photo provided by NASA, a sounding rocket launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., Tuesday, March 27, 2012, as part of the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX). Five rockets were launched from the site before dawn Tuesday for the ATREX mission to help scientists understand the upper level jet stream, which is located 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface. (AP Photo/NASA)

Citizen scientists challenged to develop space payloads

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:31am

SAN FRANCISCO -- Citizen scientists and hardware hackers are being challenged to develop payloads for commercial reusable suborbital spacecraft during the International Space Apps Challenge, a NASA-sponsored event that takes place worldwide and aboard the International Space Station on April 21-22.

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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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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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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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Aerospace Corp. headquarters can be seen in El Segundo, Calif., last year. Aerospace paid $2.5 million last week to settle Justice Department allegations that the company defrauded the Air Force for several years by billing for employee William Grayson Hunter’s time when it knew he was rarely at work, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said this week. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Aerospace company pays $2.5M after fraud accusations

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 11:41pm

LOS ANGELES -- Few aerospace employees had it as good as William Grayson Hunter.

He was paid simultaneously to work full time at two aerospace firms but rarely went to work, instead spending his days at bars, amusement parks and movie theaters, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

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ATK, NASA announce partnership on commercial launch system

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 3:40pm

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- ATK Space Systems and NASA announced a new partnership Tuesday to work together on development of ATK's Liberty commercial launch system.

ATK and NASA said they have signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement that allows NASA and the Liberty Program Office to share technical information during the preliminary design review phase of the program.

Kent Rominger, ATK vice president and program manager for Liberty, said the agreement "enables us to exchange information with NASA and receive valuable insight as we develop our fixed-price commercial crew vehicle and prepare it for test flight as early as 2014."

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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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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) An ultrasonic inspection machine for stringers, which provide support along the length of an aircraft, is on display Monday at ATK’s new Aircraft Commercial Center of Excellence in Clearfield. The facility is where ATK’s composite airframe and engine components for the Airbus A350 and General Electric and Rolls-Royce engine programs will be manufactured.

ATK opens new Clearfield facility with ceremony

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 29, 2011 - 10:54pm

CLEARFIELD — The doors have officially opened on ATK’s 615,000-square-foot Aircraft Commercial Center of Excellence, bringing to Davis County 100 new “high-paying, highly skilled jobs,” with the expectation of 700 more jobs being added over the next 20 years.

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The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center Friday, July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/Tim Donnelly)

NASA's last space shuttle, Atlantis, launches

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 1:50pm

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In this Tuesday, July 26, 2005 file picture, crowds watch as the space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The seven astronauts launched into orbit on America's first manned space mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)

Memorable photos of the Space Shuttle and the Space Program

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 5:41pm

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(JOHN RAOUX/The Associated Press) The crew of space shuttle Atlantis, from left, mission specialist Rex Walhiem, mission specialist Sandy Magnus, pilot Doug Hurley and commander Chris Ferguson attend a news conference in June at Pad 39A during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of Atlantis, the final space shuttle mission, is scheduled for Friday.

Utahns regret end of space shuttle program

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, July 3, 2011 - 11:01pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Current and former Utahns who took part in projects related to the space shuttle program say Friday's final launch will be a bittersweet moment as they take pride in the program's accomplishments but feel regret over the end of an era.

David Sebahar began working as an engineer at NASA contractor Thiokol Corp.'s rocket works in Box Elder County in 1982 following the first shuttle launch in 1981. He spent most of the last three decades working on shuttle-related projects.

Friday's launch of Atlantis will mark NASA's 135th and final shuttle flight.

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Aerospace company will add hundreds of jobs in Utah

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, June 10, 2011 - 2:42pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Buoyed by $33 million in tax credits from Utah state officials, an aerospace company is planning an expansion of their manufacturing facilities in Salt Lake City that could create 2,700 jobs over the next 15 years.

The project announced by ITT Corporation, which is based in White Plains, N.Y., will considerably boost the company's workforce in Utah. The jobs will mostly be in a composites plant that manufactures part for airplanes and will be built in northern Utah.

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Tim Feltner helps student Josh Banner with the design of a nose cone for Banner’s rocket during class at Layton High on Thursday. Feltner will receive the “Aerospace Teacher of the Year Award” tonight.

Layton High aerospace teacher rockets to the top

Loretta Park, Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 10:29pm

LAYTON -- The bell had yet to signal the end of lunch when students gathered in the classroom to work on the nose cones of their rockets.

The excitement of the 17-student aerospace class is just one of the reasons Tim Feltner will be honored as Utah's Air Force Association Chapter 237 Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year.

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ATK under fire for plan to rework Ares

Mark K. Mathews The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Friday, April 15, 2011 - 10:53pm

WASHINGTON -- Over the last six years, NASA has paid Alliant Techsystems of Minnesota more than $1 billion to build a rocket capable of taking a half-dozen astronauts to the International Space Station as a first step to flying them to the moon.

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(AP photo) In a 59-second time exposure photo released by Anthony Galvan III, the Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Glory satellite launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Goleta, Calif., early Friday. NASA said a protective shell atop the rocket did not separate from the satellite as it should have after launch.

Big cuts, no Glory: Cash-strapped NASA watches research satellite plunge into sea

Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 4, 2011 - 10:01pm

WASHINGTON -- For the second time in two years, a rocket glitch sent a NASA global warming satellite to the bottom of the sea Friday, a $424 million debacle that couldn't have come at a worse time for the space agency and its efforts to understand climate change.

Years of belt-tightening have left NASA's Earth-watching system in sorry shape, according to many scientists. And any money for new environmental satellites will have to survive budget-cutting, global warming politics and, now, doubts on Capitol Hill about the space agency's competence.

The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory satellite lifted from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and plummeted to the southern Pacific several minutes later. The same thing happened to another climate-monitoring probe in 2009 with the same type of rocket, and engineers thought they had fixed the problem.

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