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CAMX 2014 award winners

CAMX 2014 organizers offered two awards programs at tis inaugural trade show in Orlnado, Fla: the Awards for Composites Excellence (ACE) and the CAMX Awards. Here's a sketch of the results.

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CAMX 2014 show report

Bigger, better and more inclusive than any previous U.S. composites trade event, the inaugural show turns North American eyes forward to the future.

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Space

Boeing completes milestone for Commercial Crew system

Boeing has completed the Certification Baseline Review for its CST-100 spacecraft under NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract.

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Core

NASA looking for new core half the areal weight of honeycomb and foam

Two $550K grants to be awarded for new lightweight cores research. Applications due by Dec. 16, 2014.

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Space

NASA announces two winners in “space taxi” competition

NASA reported on Sept. 16 that it has selected The Boeing Co. (Houston, Texas) and SpaceX (Hawthorne, Calif.) to develop spacecraft to transport U.S. crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS).

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Space

Aerospace, construction CAMX Awards winners

Representing both ends of the composites industry spectrum, the inaugural CAMX Awards go to Epitome Foundation Walls and the NASA-Boeing all-composite cryotank.

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Autoclave

Scaled Composites' Kevin Mickey impresses at CAMX

The president of Scaled Composites shed some light on this aerospace specialist's past, present and future, including a sneak peak at the 385-ft wingspan Stratolaunch.

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Space

Sierra Nevada challenges NASA crew transport contract

Sierra Nevada, whose Dream Chaser astronaut transport vehicle lost out in a NASA contract to Boeing and SpaceX competitors, has filed a legal challenge to the award, claiming its vehicle is as functional and less expensive than Boeing's.

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Aerospace

Boeing, SpaceX picked to develop crewed spacecraft for NASA

Boeing will get $4.2 billion and SpaceX $2.6 billion to develop spacecraft transport U.S. crews to and from the International Space Station.

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Space

Disruptive technologies power small composites aerostructure firms to market party

HPC guest columnist Bob Skillen draws from 25 years of experience in aircraft design and composite aircraft manufacturing in this commentary on the "why?" behind increasingly effective role played by small manufacturers in the composite aerostructures market.

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