Documents tagged with the huntsville times

Story on Marine Targets

Story I wrote about Marine contract Lockheed Martin has/had to make Hollywood-type pop-up targets for combat training.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 12 / 21 / 2011
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Army Viper Strike program story

Story I wrote about the U.S. Army development of the Brilliant Anti Tank weapon, BAT, to be used on unmanned aerial vehicles as a precision strike weapon.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 12 / 09 / 2011
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34 Years in Limbo - Randy Ard MIA No More

Randy Ard, Army helicopter pilot missing in action for 34 years remains are returned to his family in a small Alabama town, and the set of fine China he sent his mother that would never be used.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 05 / 06 / 2011
  • 405 reads
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The Huntsville Times: April 28, 2011

  • HuntsvilleTimes published this 04 / 28 / 2011
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Saudi Representative Predicts War

Saudi Arabia foreign affairs adviser Adel al-Jubeir talks about the Iraq war and its long bloody occupation in mid-2003.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 04 / 25 / 2011
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Elite Troops Push Hard for Better Satellite Info

Story I wrote for The Huntsville Times on the need for more military space imagery assets - satellites.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 04 / 13 / 2011
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Radiation Shield NASA

Story I wrote about radiation shielding being developed for future spacecraft.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 04 / 01 / 2011
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Private Vomit Comet

Story I wrote for The Huntsville (Ala) Times on a "weightless" flight business set up by a former Marshall Space Flight Center engineer and flown on by Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 04 / 01 / 2011
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Rocket Forecast

Story I enjoyed writing for The Huntsville Times on the satellite industry market and the prospect of growing needs.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 03 / 20 / 2011
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CIA Billy Waugh Huntsville Times

Billy Waugh - terrorist hunter for the CIA - story I did in Huntsville for The Huntsville Times. http://www.paratrooper.net/commo/Topi...
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 03 / 15 / 2011
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UAH Statement on Dr. David Williams' Departure

The University of Alabama in Huntsville released this statement on Williams' departure, set for April 1, moments after The Huntsville Times broke the news that the four-year president would be leav...
  • HuntsvilleTimes published this 03 / 14 / 2011
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20th NG Special Forces story

Story on the 20th Special Forces preparing to deploy - by doing the essentials
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 02 / 27 / 2011
  • 380 reads
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HSV Times Shuttle Upgrades

Story I wrote about upgrading the space shuttle, the expense, effort and cost. Also, why Congress dickered over it for years.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 01 / 31 / 2011
  • 550 reads
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HSV Times Rocket Belt

Story I did on an Athens, Alabama man who designed and built a "Rocket Belt." Also includes interview with Tim Pickens, of Huntsville, Alabama, a local engineer who has designed a jet pack.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 01 / 29 / 2011
  • 328 reads
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Omega Watch Skylab HSV Times

Story on the Omega watches used by astronauts during the Apollo era, includes interviews with Dr. Owen Garriott, an Apollo, Skylab and space shuttle astronaut. Also, includes interviews with astron...
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 01 / 29 / 2011
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Astronaut Mark Kelly Times Story

Story I did for The Huntsville (Ala) Times from an interview with NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, about Cold War contacts with Soviets and the space program.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 01 / 12 / 2011
  • 265 reads
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Letter to the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission

The Huntsville Times presented this letter to Todd Slyman, chair of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, during a meeting Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The Times contends the commission is viola...
  • HuntsvilleTimes published this 12 / 21 / 2010
  • 326 reads
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Tech show opening day

Story I wrote about the big technology expo held in 2000 in Las Vegas while I worked for The Huntsville (Ala) Times.
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 12 / 04 / 2010
  • 176 reads
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Time Domain Comdex 2000 story

Time Domain - a then promising Huntsville company - developed technology of using radio waves for a variety of applications. I think they also invented the digital watch (joking). Story I did on th...
  • Shelby G. Spires published this 12 / 04 / 2010
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Where does your traffic fine go?

  • NikiDoyle published this 10 / 06 / 2010
  • 114 reads
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