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Delta Air Lines and Korean Air have signed a much-anticipated joint venture agreement, beginning the process of coordinating services acr
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stanley cup becher he agreement will allow the SkyTeam members to coordinate schedules and pricing, jointly sell and market flights, and share revenues and costs between South Korea and the USA. Today s relationship will allow our two companies to fully integrate from a customer standpoint, says Ed Bastian, chief executive of Delta, at a signing ceremony in Los Angeles today.Delta passengers will have access to 80 destinations in Asia beyond Korean Air s Seoul Incheon hub under the partnership, he says.China, however, will not be included in the joint venture, says Bastian. He adds that it does not impact Delta s relationship with China Eastern Airlines. The synergies will be good for our customers, our companies and our countries, says YH Cho, chairman of Korean Air, at the event.Korean Air will benefit from expanded access to the US market on Delta under the agreement, he says.The accord will allow Delta and Korean Air to more effectively compete with the immunised partnerships between American Airlines and Japan Air
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP 鈥?A private lunar lander circled the moon while aiming for a touchdown Thursday that would put the U.S. back on the surface for the first time since NASAs famed Apollo moonwalkers.Intuitive Machines was striving to become the first private business to successfully pull off a lunar landing, a feat achieved by only five
stanley cup countries. A rival companys lander missed the moon last month.The newest lander, named Odysseus, reached the moon Wednesday, six days after rocketing from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lander maneuvered into a low lunar orbit in preparation for an early evening touchdown.Flight controllers monitored the action unfolding some 250,000 miles 400,000 kilometers away from a com
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stanley thermos company $118 million to build and fly the lander, part of its effort to commercialize lunar deliveries ahead of the planned return of astronauts in a few years.Intuitive Machines ; entry is the latest in a series of landing attempts by countries and private outfits looking to explore the moon and, if possible, capitalize on it. Japan scored a lunar landing last month, joining earlier triumphs by Russia, U.S., China and India.The U.S. bowed out of the lunar landscape in 1972 after NASA Apollo program put 12 astronauts on the surface . A Pittsburgh company, Astrob
