US Space Agency Aims for New Air Speed Record
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The US space agency NASA plans to launch an experimental aircraft Monday that it hopes will set a new world record for air speed. If weather permits, an unpiloted wedge-shaped X-43 aircraft
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The Guinness Book of Records has officially recognised the world speed record set by Nasa&#39;s X-43A hypersonic aircraft earlier this year.
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A new spacecraft is being readied to make the fastest, most detailed study yet of the fleeting gamma ray bursts emanating from deep in space.
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The United States   begins its next step in human space flight with the   announcement by NASA on Thursday of a contractor to design and   build spaceships to fly to the moon.
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NASA plans to mark the new year with what it considers the most significant milestone yet in the agency&#39;s two-year effort to resume space shuttle missions.
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A small, pilotless NASA aircraft set a speed record for jet planes on Tuesday when it dashed out over the Pacific Ocean at almost 10 times the speed of sound, project officials announced.
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An innovative engine that compresses air by its shape alone to reach hypersonic speeds will attempt to break its own record next week with a test flight over the Pacific Ocean.
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A tiny unmanned NASA &quot;scramjet&quot; soared above the Pacific Ocean yesterday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.
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The US space agency Nasa announces details of a mission to give the Hubble space telescope a major boost.
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Aviation enthusiasts awaiting the historic flight of NASA's experimental X-43A 'scramjet' will have to wait another day. Mission planners hope to fly the unmanned jet at a record-breaking 7,000 mph. By Amit Asaravala.
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NASA is set to fly a jet at ten times the speed of sound or approximately 7,000 miles per hour today in a test over the Pacific Ocean.
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NASA&#39;s unmanned X-43A plane is the latest product of its research program into flight at more than five times the speed of sound.
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The U.S. Air Force could start operating aircraft in "near space," the no man's land above 65,000 feet but below an outer space orbit, within a year, a top U.S. Air Force space official said on Tuesday.
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NASA will try this morning to set a speed record of Mach 10 -- that&#39;s 11.2 thousand kilometres an hour -- with an unmanned hypersonic jet.
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NASA has been working on a test flight project for the last few years involving hypersonic flight. Hypersonic flight is fight at speeds greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
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An unmanned NASA jet that set a speed record of almost 7,000 miles per hour was built by a Tennessee company. The 12-foot-long X-43-A supersonic combustion ramjet, or Scramjet, flew on its