By way of comparison, West Germany is spending approximately as much for its own work on an aerospace plane.
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This action, had it been sustained, would have effectively killed the aerospace plane.
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The agency has already spent billions of dollars on the National Aerospace Plane, the X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38 and the Orbital Space Plane.
Congress should stipulate that the aerospace plane be pursued on a schedule that is truly driven by the maturity of relevant technologies, not constrained by funding.
Second, and related to the first, the National Aerospace Plane can contribute greatly to reestablishing U.S. preeminence in space, for civilian as well as military purposes.
This general observation is particularly true of the aerospace plane, whose technologies will be of such vital importance to U.S. security and commercial interests for generations to come.
Latest example of NASA bloated spending: The agency has already spent billions of dollars on the National Aerospace Plane, the X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38 and the Orbital Space Plane.
Finally, the reemergence of American primacy in space that the National Aerospace Plane represents will do much to restore popular and Congressional support for this vital area of national endeavor.
It appears likely that an even greater percentage could be of use in Japanese efforts to develop a space shuttle, and perhaps even their counterpart to the U.S. National Aerospace Plane.
Not the least reason for doing so is our belief that the aerospace plane can and must be available for consideration as a contender for the follow-on to the space shuttle.
For these reasons, we at the Center for Security Policy are convinced that the National Aerospace Plane must become a high profile, "national" program funded at a level determined by the maturity of the associated technology.
The recent history of the NASP program the bureaucratic equivalent of the perils of Pauline has shown, however, that, despite presidential interest in it, the aerospace plane has not enjoyed such priority thus far.
If we are unable or unwilling to pursue the National Aerospace Plane a real and near-term program with immediate and tangible funding requirements the skepticism with which the longer-term, more exotic aspects of the Bush plan were greeted would seem fully warranted.
It is, for example, a fact that the amount of money restored to the aerospace plane after the program was resurrected is exactly the amount the Air Force could allocate without having to seek additional funds from the Office of the Secretary of Defense or its sister services.
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Meanwhile, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which scrambled fighter jets for the wayward plane did not launch them, said it was reviewing procedures for launching the fighters to track potentially hijacked or suspicious aircraft.
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The Coast Guard plane and two F-15s from the North American Aerospace Defense Command were still watching the Cessna before it went down, the Air Force and Coast Guard reported.
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"It consolidates the 787's position as the future transatlantic plane of choice, " said Doug McVitie, Managing Director of consultancy firm Arran Aerospace.
NASA, America's aerospace agency, showed how to quieten the boom by using a fatter wing on a modified fighter plane.
His visit to Egypt was a hastily arranged affair, bolted on to the start of a long-planned commercial tour of Gulf Arab allies and made in the company of a plane-load of British business chiefs, among them the representatives of eight defence and aerospace firms, prompting press headlines at home about Mr Cameron preaching peace in the company of arms-dealers.
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