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Bad weather pushed back the move-in to the intrepid sea, air and space museums docked on manhattan s west side. would you look at those pictures? great stuff over the weekend. retired shuttle jet in april and set out on a barge yesterday morning in route to that floating museum. officials say there was a fender bender as the wing at this point grazed a pylon in the water. it was windy yesterday. nasa just got two new giant space telescopes and they got them for free. the nation s satellite spy agency donated them because it apparently didn t need them anymore. we re told they could be even more powerful than hubble. the hubble space telescope launched in 1990. it s aging obviously and had its final upgrade just a few years ago. the free telescopes could be a real big help for nasa considering recent budget cuts there it could still be a while before the space agency has the resources to equip and launch the new telescopes. ....
Close to the business jet, so close that the collision avoidance systems on the aircraft went off and they had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid each other. controllers directed these two planes into each other s flight paths. the trouble is, there have been 21 incidents that the faa calls operational errors, 21 cases oned this one, so far in this fiscal year. some of them are near misses. we ve had a continental jet involved her, military aircraft, a jetblue aircraft, a shuttle jet, all of them involved in these close calls in the skies. and then other cases that the faa calls operational errors. so now faa and the ntsb are trying to get to the bottom of this. this team is going to the warrenton center to do a fuel review of the air space. you have dulles international airport, reagan national airport, you ve got bwi airport halfway between baltimore and washington. you ve also got andrews air ....