Space station crew marks Gagarin's flight
CNN - MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin chatted Wednesday with the U.S.-Russian crew on the international space station via a televised hookup marking the 45th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight to space, wishing them a successful mission
Surveillance flight to aid spill cleanup crews
CBC News - Environment Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard hope to get a better sense Wednesday of the extent of an oil spill that has killed wildlife along the shores of the Avalon Peninsula. A surveillance flight is planned to assess the number of birds at
CAE lands Army training and simulation database work
Washington Technology - CAE USA Inc. won a $17.8 million contract from the Army to develop the common database architecture for simulation-based training exercises and establish database production facilities. The contract value could reach $59 million if all options are
Consolidation talks take flight at last
Olympian - For years, South Sound residents have scratched their heads in amazement as they have watched school buses collect students on the same streets where Intercity Transit buses pick up and drop off riders. Taxpayers ask why they should pay to support
September 11 attacks
CNN - ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Jurors at the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial Wednesday heard the first public playing of the cockpit voice recorder of United Airlines Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner on 9/11 that missed its target thanks to a
Saturday's Fun Fair aimed at kids 7-12
Wichita Eagle - Spider-Man is coming to Wichita on Saturday and bringing along his superhero buddies, the Hulk, Green Goblin and Storm. The four costumed characters will be featured in the Marvel Comics stage show during the first Fun Fair for Kids at Century II
Flight 93 Recorder Tape Won't Be Released To Public
MSNBC - ALEXANDRIA, Va - The federal judge in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial has ruled that the cockpit voice recorder tape from the last moments before United Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania will not be released to the public. Instead, a
Schools target 'white flight'
Rocky Mountain News - BOULDER - School officials Tuesday recommended a series of enrollment caps in an effort to stem the flight of Anglo parents away from schools with large populations of poor Hispanics. Some Anglo parents from north Boulder have enrolled their children
Russia Marks Anniversary Of First Space Flight
Radio Free Europe - April 12, 2006 -- Russia is today marking 45 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space, and the first to orbit the Earth. On April 12, 1961, Gagarin took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan. He became the