Defense budget amount puts Russia alongside with NATO members
Posted on: Fri Aug 26th, 2005 | english.pravda.ru

Russia's defense budget in 2006 will give first priority to the development of the national Air Force and the Anti-Aircraft Defense. Russia's Minister for Defense, Sergei Ivanov, told reporters after he returned to Moscow from China that the real defense budget of Russia was gaining about ten percen...

Ellsworth, Cannon Air Bases Spared by U.S. Panel
Posted on: Fri Aug 26th, 2005 | bloomberg.com

Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. commission considering the overhaul of military installations dealt Pentagon plans two setbacks today by refusing to shut a B-1B bomber base in South Dakota and another Air Force installation in New Mexico.

Edwards sets out to revamp runway
Posted on: Fri Aug 26th, 2005 | edwards.af.mil

08/26/05 – EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – After being constructed nearly 50 years ago and surviving various test aircraft, Edwards' main runway has approached the end of its functional life.

Mars-bound probe to make major trajectory adjustment
Posted on: Fri Aug 26th, 2005 | spaceflightnow.com

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will take aim at the Red Planet Saturday by firing its six main engines during the first in a series of trajectory-changing maneuvers planned throughout the craft's seven-month cruise through interplanetary space.

Europe aims lone rover for Mars
Posted on: Fri Aug 26th, 2005 | news.bbc.co.uk

Europe has fixed on a concept for its next mission to land on the Red Planet. It aims to send a single robot rover to the Martian surface along with another, stationary, science package.