Close to unveiling its propulsion provider.

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Guy Norris

Boom is close to unveiling its propulsion provider, as American Airlines Overture order boosts the supersonic airliner’s backlog.

Defense Editor Steve Trimble looks at how a reliable defense against a hypersonic glide vehicle might look.

The Aerospace industry has specific needs for mixed gas charging and requires special equipment to safely handle those applications. Haskel develops gas boosters and complete packaged systems capable of handling high-pressure mixed gas charging applications.

From NASA seeks industry comment on commercial ISS deorbit strategy to chilean air force inducts first Ex-RAF E-3 sentry. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: 60 YEARS AGO IN AVIATION WEEK

Pioneer astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn were on hand for President John F. Kennedy’s tour of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston in September, 1962. The agency used the visit to showcase advanced mockups to Kennedy, including a lunar excursion module, a 1/12th scale model of a simulator to train Apollo pilots and a full-scale Gemini mockup. Kennedy, who 16 months earlier had announced plans to land humans on the moon, used his two-day tour ofNASA facilities to emphasize that the U.S. space program would continue to be civilian led and focused on peaceful exploration. “This apparently means that the military space program will remain relatively low-keyed in comparison with the rapidly expanding civil program,” reported Aviation Week’s Edward H. Kolcum. Meanwhile, the Manned Spaceflight Center was pitching a plan to develop Project Olympus, an 18-person hub-and-spoke space station that would be orbited starting in 1966. NASA’s Langley Research Center had already proposed a 38-man space station.

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