Lifting Body News Today

of earthquakes raise fears of a volcanic eruption. authorities have ordered thousands living in the southwestern town of grindavik to evacuate as a precaution. now on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to this special edition of talking business weekly. with me, aaron hazelhurst, coming to you from long beach, california. lets go and take a look at whats on the show. a flight full of dollars. thats right. the airline industry is on course to return to pro...

attacks since october seven. icelands government has declared a state of emergency and evacuated thousands of people from towns in the west of the country amid a rising chance of a volcanic eruption. now come on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to this special edition of talking business weekly. with me, aaron hazelhurst, coming to you from long beach, california. lets go and take a look at whats on the show. a flight full of dollars. thats right. the a...

and that return of demand, well, it comes despite rising fares for passengers. you know, according to data from the travel website kayak, globalflight prices have risen 16% between july and september this year compared to the same time a year ago. and thats helped some airlines to record record profits. however, the airline body, iata, thats the international air transport association, says despite those higher fares, the average airline will make a profit ofjust $2.25 per passenger as...

The Armstrong Flight Research Center is home to NASA's experimental plane program, X-Planes. Here are six that are very strange and uniquely designed.

It will be a year filled with exploration, innovation, wonder—and no shortage of risk.

Crew can come out. i remember we were working feverishly, working hard, but very excited to be back on the ground. very excited to have had a successful mission. but well keep our focus to make sure that we go step by step methodically through the checklist. the quicker you do it, the quicker you can get out of the vehicle. and cool uf and recover and get something to drink and something to eat. and that sort of thing. >> sure. >> theyre very focused and methodical right now. >> clay, i want you...

The end of an era for "discovery." what does that mean to you? >> well, its a bittersweet moment. i spent 17 days of any life on board "discovery," and you know its a wonderful experience. shes been a workhorse of the fleet. the folks that have put her together and gotten her ready have just done an outstanding job. its just a testament to the team of people and wonderful folks that work on the space program that shes been able to do 39 missions and 1.5 million miles and 365 day in space. just a...

Mark the beginning of the end. a few months ago, i talked to alvin drew, mission specialist onboard shuttle "discovery." and he said, you know, down the road, theres going to be a nostalgia for these vehicles. >> theyre going to say, we had this hypersonic reentering lifting body out there that did all kinds of things. it had a robotic arm and the things were looking at arent nearly as ambitious. were we ever that audacious to go build spacecraft to do things like that? and i think were going to...

And millions of people forever more are going to have an opportunity to get right up close and see, you know, a vehicle that one astronaut told me -- in fact it was alvin drew, who is flying on this mission right now. said to me, we never in our lifetime will ever see a vehicle like this, a lifting body that nice up, returns to earth and it will probably be something out of science fiction. people will say they never built that. it never really happened. thats the kind of amazing technological a...

Days of actual time on orbit. i think that youd call that a fleet leader and a leader of any manned vehicle for time in orbit. so job well done. well meet you in the post landing pad or post landing currently no deltas. >> copy that. were headed to five-three. id like to thank you and your team and all the orbit teams for a fantastic mission as well as the expedition 206 team in orbit and a perfect vehicle from start to finish on her final flight. >> well said on all. and we totally agree. thank...