Venezuela Poised To Take Over As Top Latin American Arms Buyer

Posted at: Wed Nov 16th, 2005

Over the past year Venezuela has adopted a force structure revitalization program that could be worth as much as $30.7 billion through 2012. If fulfilled, this would make the country the leading arms buyer in the region through the rest of the decade.

Pentagon weighs cuts in F-35 program

Posted at: Wed Nov 16th, 2005

PHOENIX -- Top Pentagon officials are still weighing whether to order dramatic cuts in the size and scope of the F-35 joint strike fighter program, including possibly eliminating one of the three planned versions of the aircraft.

Private Supply Ships Vital for Space Vision, NASA Chief Says

Posted at: Wed Nov 16th, 2005

LEAGUE CITY, TX – Commercial space station cargo ships, crew ferries and other spacecraft will prove a vital cog in NASA’s engine for future space exploration, the agency’s top official said Tuesday. “We want to be able to buy these services from American indu...

NASA chooses Ames Research Center for unmanned lunar explorations

Posted at: Wed Nov 16th, 2005

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The US space agency NASA has chosen the Ames Research Center to manage upcoming robotic lunar missions that prelude astronauts' venture there by year 2018, officials said. The institute, based in Mountain View, California, has planned at least ...