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 Tokyo (AFP) April 5, 2009 
For several tense minutes North Korea's rocket sped through the skies over Japan, but the Japanese did not try to shoot it down - a move Pyongyang had warned would amount to an act of war. Japan had taken the unusual step of authorising its military in advance to intercept any bit of the rocket that threatened to hit its territory, but those few moments of drama came and went with no confro ... read more
Seoul (AFP) April 5, 2009North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday, defying months of pressure from the United States and its allies over what they said was an illegal ballistic missile test. US President Barack Obama swiftly condemned Pyongyang's "provocative" act, South Korea denounced it as a "reckless" threat to world security, and the UN Security Council set an emergency meeting for later Sunday. ... more
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Canada reports mildest winter on record
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009One of our closest galactic neighbors shows its awesome beauty in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is a member of what's known as our Local Group of galaxies. Along with our own Milky Way, this group travels together in the universe, as they are gravitationally bound. In fact, M33 is one of the few galaxies that is moving toward ... more  
Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 2, 2009 The seven astronauts who will be aboard space shuttle Atlantis when it launches May 12 were busy Thursday in Florida, preparing for their STS-125 mission. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the astronauts were conducting equipment and procedure familiarization training in preparation for their mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Processing of Atlant ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 04, 2009Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has been selected by The Boeing Company as the contractor for the Ares I Instrument Unit Assembly (IUA) Flight Computer (FC) and Command Telemetry Computer (CTC). Ball Aerospace will employ its Common Computing Architecture for the IUA to build three flight computers that operate synchronously, and two command telemetry computers per Ares I flight. The ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2009The Expedition 18 and 19 crews wrapped up a busy week of joint operations aboard the International Space Station Friday. Throughout the week, the newly-arrived Expedition 19 crew members spent much of their time familiarizing themselves with their new home and conducting handover activities with the outgoing Expedition 18 crew. Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke officially handed ov ... more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 04, 2009A team from St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn., won the 22nd annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University on Saturday (March 28). St. Olaf, with an enrollment of 3,000 students and no engineering program, was competing for the first time in the national contest. The team of science-minded students designed a machine around a "Mad Scie ... more 
Columbia MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2009The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) hosted their 40th anniversary symposium, "Our Future in Space," on Thursday, March 26 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain of the European Space Agency (ESA) addressed the audience of professors, deans, and leaders in the space research field from industry and government, including interna ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 04, 2009Arctic reindeer herders are facing the challenges of adapting to climate change as a warmer Arctic climate makes it harder for herds to find food and navigate. To help them adapt, the ESA-backed Polar View initiative is providing the herders with satellite-based snow maps. "Snow is of paramount importance for reindeer herding because its quality determines whether reindeer are able to acce ... more |
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