Returning the Condor To S. America's Skies
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BUENOS AIRES -- The conservationists tend to get a little tense when they approach Egg 54, which sits alone on a metal tray inside an incubator, absorbing warm air like some sort of fragile, slow-baked potato.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand  - An imaginative plan and  a dose of national guilt could save New Zealand's flightless  icon, the once abundant kiwi, from extinction.
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Wind energy may be emerging as an important alternative power source for the Northwest, but there are concerns about the danger to hawks and eagles as turbines expand to wild areas of the Columbia River Gorge.
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SAN FRANCISCO United Airlines makes history today when it begins the first of its daily flights from San Francisco to Vietnam. It&#39;s the first time in nearly 30 years an American air carrier is offering daily service to the Communist country.
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any landing you walk away from is a good one - might have to be amended: &quot;but you have to be able to afford the fuel to fly in the first place.
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Problems abound for air travel. But there is hope.
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com September 29, 2004, 7:06 AM PT. MOJAVE, Calif.--A specialized plane carrying a suborbital spacecraft took off shortly before 7:15 am PDT in an attempt to complete the first phase in the race to privatize space travel.
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Last week's&nbsp;announcement&nbsp;by the Zero  Gravity Corporation that it would be offering weightless flights to paying  customers was good news for thrill seekers.&nbsp; Those who sign up for the  experience will be treated to several stomach-rolling climbs and drops.&nbsp;  Although the planes used are slightly modified commercial planes, tests have  shown that they can manage the demanding maneuvers.
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The low-cost carrier reverses course, and results fly in the face of expectations.
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Three down and one to go, how's the flight path looking?
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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over Utah will try to pluck it in midair and bring home its precious cargo -- a few micrograms of the stuff that makes up the sun.
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The US space agency (Nasa) has pushed back the return to flight of the space shuttles until May at the earliest. The Discovery orbiter was due to launch in March or April on a mission to the International
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The bald eagle, America's national symbol, is flying high after spending three decades in recovery. On Thursday, the U.S. took the eagle off the Endangered Species Act's "threatened" list.
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Fish and Wildlife has made a recommendation for a small bird that stirs up big controversy. A battle over the protection of the sage grouse rages on between the nationâs energy industry and conservationists.
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A rare farmland bird which conservationists thought had almost died out returns to the Scottish Borders.
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TWITCHERS should book their plane tickets as soon as possible. Wildlife experts yesterday claimed to have discovered a new species of bird in the Philippines. But they immediately warned that the flightless Calayan rail could be driven to extinction by ...
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The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) Report has provided NASA with a roadmap âto resume our journey into space.â The recommendations âreflect the Boardâs strong support for return to flight at the earliest date consistent with the