Space agency increasingly turns to private sector partners for services, so feds seek to ensure safety and minimize overlapping efforts with a new cross-agency agreement.
NASA and the FAA on Monday announced plans to work together on standards for commercial space travel, an attempt to avoid conflict and duplication of effort as private sector companies increasingly transport astronauts into low-Earth orbit and to the International Space Station.
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WASHINGTON-Cyber attacks represent "probably the single largest threat" facing the United States, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said Monday.
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*Editor's Note* Cyber security issues will be discussed in-depth at this month's Aviation Cyber Security Day. Visit www.atca.org/cybersecurity to register and learn more about the symposium. 

Official Statement: The Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) is proud to celebrate with its partner in aviation - the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) on its 25 year-achievement.

From its inception in 1987 to present day, NATCA has done an exemplary job of keeping America's airspace the safest in the world. Each day, 70,000 flights are kept secure by its air traffic controllers, engineers, and other aviation safety professionals.
With strong continued leadership and direction, NATCA will surely thrive for 25 more years and we look forward to working together throughout that time. Congratulations to a superb organization. - Peter F. Dumont, ATCA President & CEO 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers into backyards and bedrooms.
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CHICAGO - United Airlines has a new operations center in the tallest building in the U.S.
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Cloverdale resident Scott Henning has flown out of Bellingham's airport to Las Vegas twice - each time with a group of six friends. He has saved a lot of money travelling through BLI over YVR, and he plans to do it again at the end of the summer. The cheapest flights out of Vancouver that Henning could find were $630; from Bellingham he paid $230.
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TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The cause of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash on Mount Salak is beginning to become clear. The air traffic controller allegedly did not guide the pilot, who was unfamiliar with the terrain.
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