"It's a layer-upon-layer type of defense they have built, and it looks good to me," said Edward W. Price, a University of Georgia aerospace expert.
Aerospace expert Prof Nguyen Khoa Son thinks they could belong to an old satellite that failed to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
I asked Paul E. Eden, aerospace expert and author of numerous books on military and civilian aircraft, to debunk a few flying myths.
In fact, man's first voyage beyond the planet was nearly a disaster, Western aerospace experts have learned.
Today's hearing focused on a review of the space station program by an independent panel of aerospace experts conducted for NASA at the request of Congress.
At stake, according to aerospace experts, is a new generation of shuttle rockets that may be cheaper and must be safer.
PAGE A6 IRAN LAUNCHES SATELLITE Iran said it launched a satellite into orbit that Western aerospace experts said could be used for limited military reconnaissance and also to monitor crops and track damage from earthquakes, flooding and other natural disasters.
It has been created by a team of Formula 1 and aerospace experts with assistance from the army's Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and technicians from the RAF's 71 Squadron who built the tailfin.
In 1994, Kraft was appointed chairman of the space shuttle management independent review team, a panel made up of leading aerospace experts, whose remit was to investigate ways in which NASA could make its space shuttle program more cost effective.
Many aerospace experts now suspect that a 2.67-pound piece of foam that flew off of the tank at liftoff could have critically damaged the shuttle, leading to a breach of the shuttle's skin by superheated gases.
23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard.
