C-5A

The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military cargo aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a Feb. 4, 2009, launch.

Dropped NOAA-N Satellite Ready For Launch - NASA Watch 2008

The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military cargo aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a Feb. 4, 2009, launch.

NASA Watch: November 2008 Archives 2008

That said, I am pleased to report that "Project Cobbler" was a complete success despite a couple of low fly-overs by black helicopters and one large C-5A that I suspect still belongs to an old friend of Franklin Graham's.

A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

I will always remember the April 1 1991 Final Four which I watched alone at a sports bar in Fayetteville, NC, having met my oldest son's C-5A transport at Pope AFB that afternoon.

"Somebody said that we're not in President Obama's Final Four..." Ann Althouse 2009

There were powerful crosswinds at Lajes airfield in the Azores, which would have put the huge C-5A transports at risk, so they were held back in Delaware, their bellies crammed full of supplies.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military cargo aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a Feb. 4, 2009, launch.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: November 2008 Archives 2008

A C-5A or C-141 cargo plane, with an hourly operating cost of $9,000, hauls bulletproof limousines, Secret Service "war wagons" and a White House communications car.

Flying First-Family Class 2008

"Through these coruscating channels," he writes, "will ultimately run most of the commerce of the world; more value will move by resonant light than by all the world's supertankers, pipelines, eighteen-wheeler trucks and C-5A airships put together."

Bandwidth Be Thy Name 2008

There were powerful crosswinds at Lajes airfield in the Azores, which would have put the huge C-5A transports at risk, so they were held back in Delaware, their bellies crammed full of supplies.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Energia rockets have a ~22:1 fuel-to-payload ratio; compare with about 4:1 for a C-5A flying from LA-Sydney. 6x more...okay, perhaps not identical, but certainly far less than the ratio between launch costs.

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Anti-Commons in Space: 2007