The planned NASA/SpaceX launch out of Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station was nixed on Wednesday due to bad weather. Thunderstorms and cloudy skies threatened the effort going into Wednesday and with conditions not clearing less than a half hour before the planned launch, the mission […]
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An E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post, commonly known as ‘doomsday plane’, took part in the flying exercise. The E-4B aircraft, a militarized version of the Boeing 747-200, is always on 24-hour alert, 7-days a week, with a global watch team at one of many selected bases throughout the world. The […]