Article Excerpt: "... PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced that the PPG Foundation recently invested $45,000 in eight Alabama organizations in support of educational and community sustainability programs. The grants were made in the fourth quarter of 2018 on behalf of PPG’s aerospace facility in Huntsville, Alabama..."
Article Excerpt: "... SLS will produce 8.8 million lbs. of maximum thrust, 15 percent more thrust than the Saturn V rocket. The huge tank is being stress tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama..."
Article Excerpt: "... Driving over a hose is against the law. The weight of a car can cause the hose to burst, leaving firefighters without their main weapon against a blaze..."
Article Excerpt: "... NASA announced Wednesday the first unpiloted test flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship has slipped from later this month to March 2..."
Article Excerpt: "Shelby said more construction by the FBI is expected at the Redstone Arsenal in coming years. Shelby said "Huntsville is on fire" from an economic point of view..."
Article Excerpt: "... Last year was its busiest ever with 21 launches. If all goes according to plan, 2019 should be the rocket's year to shine again thanks to two major launches..."
Article Excerpt: "... city officials adopted a wide-ranging list of regulations that included an Alabama first: The public beachfront became smoke-free. The ban is part of a national trend as politicians try to keep popular attractions from looking like ashtrays..."
Article Excerpt: "... Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is showing things can be done differently ..."
Article Excerpt: "... some two hundred years ago, eccentric minds were devising ways of cutting international delivery times to hours or even minutes. Their method? Rockets ..."
Article Excerpt: "... Propst founded Propst Drugs of Huntsville, and became President of Kmart’s Pharmacy Division when Kmart bought Propst Drugs in 1970. Most recently, Propst ... Ron Dunivant is the son of a man who worked for Propst: “Anything my dad needed, Mr. Propst helped him..."
Article Excerpt: "... The proposed amphitheater in Huntsville, with an early price tag of $35-40 million, should be paid for in part through a boost in the city’s lodging tax, city council President Devyn Keith said ..."
Article Excerpt: "This site compares average costs for 22 remodeling projects with the value those projects retain at resale in 136 U.S. markets..."
Article Excerpt: "Here's what Bezos said to his employees: "This flight is getting..."
Article Excerpt: "... explains that after World War II, German scientists were snatched up by the U.S. as part of Operation Paperclip. He says Huntsville was set up to house German scientists working on rocket technology, led by Wernher von Braun. Having fought in World War II, Quinn is ..."
Article Excerpt: "... trainees also experience firsthand the National Historic Landmark Saturn V rocket, the Smithsonian Institution’s largest artifact; the Apollo 12 moon rock; mobile ..."
Article Excerpt: "Huntsville police are asking the public’s help in identifying the male and two females pictured..."
police said the individuals had been identified and arrest warrants were being obtained...
Article Excerpt: "... China will resume launches of its Long March 5 rocket in July, according to a senior space official, with a planned follow up mission in December to collect samples from the Moon and return them to Earth ..."
Article Excerpt: "... Russia’s RIA news agency cited three sources as saying that a “breach” had been discovered in the rocket’s Fregat upper stage ..."
Article Excerpt: "... Under a three-year, $233,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team led by Dr. George Nelson, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), will use ..."
Article Excerpt: "... “It’s better to err on the side of being safe, and I’m being only slightly facetious,” Bevin said. “But it does concern me a little bit that in America, on this and any number of other fronts, we’re sending messages to our young people that if life is hard, you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard, and that just isn’t reality. It just isn’t.” ..."