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• General Dynamics Extends Tender Offer for All Outstanding Shares of Newport News Shipbuilding General Dynamics 23 Jul 2001 -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) today extended its pending tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock (including associated rights) of Newport News Shipbuilding Inc. (NYSE: NNS) to midnight, EDT, on August 3, 2001.
• RAF Pilot Completes Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing, Goes Supersonic in Lockheed Martin JSF X-35B Lockheed Martin 23 Jul 2001 -- In a history-making first for a Royal Air Force pilot, Squadron Leader Justin Paines performed a short takeoff, a supersonic dash, a hover and a vertical landing in two flights of the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter X-35B.
• Boeing Satellite Systems Team Members and Their Customers Working Side-By-Side in New Company Facility Boeing 23 Jul 2001 -- A unique side-by-side collocation of satellite industry contractors and their U.S. government customers is made possible by the newest facility on the El Segundo campus of Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS), a unit of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA).
• HYBRID SOUNDING ROCKET SYSTEM TO BE TESTED AT STENNIS SPACE CENTER Lockheed Martin 23 Jul 2001 -- Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Michoud Operations will conduct the final ground test firing of a hybrid rocket motor that will increase safety and reliability and reduce environmental hazards at 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 24 at the NASA Stennis Space Center.
• ILS Celebrates Successful Atlas Launch With GOES-M Weather Satellite Lockheed Martin 23 Jul 2001 -- An Atlas IIA rocket successfully carried the GOES-M weather satellite into space during an early morning launch today. Liftoff was at 3:23 a.m. EDT from Launch Pad 36A at Cape Canaveral, followed by spacecraft separation into geosynchronous transfer orbit 27 minutes later.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 23 Jul 2001

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• Delta Rocket to Launch Probe Into Birth of Solar System Boeing 23 Jul 2001 -- A Boeing Delta II rocket is poised to help NASA investigate the beginnings of our solar system by launching Genesis into a halo orbit between the Earth and Sun.