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Technicians are focusing their efforts today on emptying the fuel cells inside space shuttle Endeavour as they continue to de-service the spacecraft before it is flown back to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Working at the Mate-Demate Device at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California, the technicians are also getting ready to offload residual propellants from Endeavour’s thruster tanks and will power down the shuttle. Endeavour landed Sunday at Dryden and will be carried to Florida atop a 747 aircraft. (Image Credit: NASA)
A Russian cosmonaut used a joystick to guide a modernized cargo ship to the International Space Station Sunday after problems with an automated system required a last-minute switch to a manual docking. The Progress M-01M craft docked safely with the station and delivered thousands of pounds of propellant, oxygen and water as well as equipment, hardware and holiday gifts for cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov and his two American crew mates. The docking was the first for a new model of Russia's long-serving Progress line of cargo ships, equipped with a fully digital telemetric system. (Image Credit: NASA)
The US Air Force has completed their analysis of the effects of using a natural gas-based synthetic fuel with its Lockheed Martin F-22, as work to test the technology accelerates via its trainer, transport and fighter fleets. No anomalies were detected in F-22 flight tests, or during ground tests of its F119 engines at Pratt & Whitney's West Palm Beach facility in Florida. Flight tests using the Northrop T-38 supersonic trainer have recently commenced, while a Lockheed C-5 transport will conduct a demonstration flight on 9 December and ground tests of the Lockheed F-16's General Electric F110 engine will start in mid-January. (Image Credit: USAF)
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