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May 6, 2002
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At Home With Six Billion Tourists
Los Angeles - May 06, 2002
 The dream is alive, has a price tag of $20 million and a small queue is forming. Later this month, the Russians are required to announce who the next 'visiting crewmember' will be in order to meet the terms of the formal crew criteria agreed by the Multilateral Coordination Board for the international space station in January.
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LAUNCH PAD
Boeing Delta IV Stands Ready On Launch Pad
 Seal Beach - May 06, 2002
 The Boeing-built Delta IV rocket was transported to the launch pad Tuesday in preparation for its first flight this August from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
  • Boeing Will Launch NASA Mission to Track Mother Nature
  • H2A Has No Commercial Customers
  • Comet Chaser Ships to the Cape For July 1 Launch

    • UAV NEWS
    Fire Scout UAV At China Lake For First Flight
     San Diego - May 06, 2002
     The U.S. Navy's RQ-8A Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system has moved closer to demonstrating its role as a force multiplier for the Navy and Marine Corps forces ashore.
  • Pegasus Team Completes Engine Test Milestone
  • Dassault, Sagem Announce Plan To Develop Tactical Drones
  • US Air Force Moves Ahead With Production Of Global Hawks

    • EARTH OBSERVATION
    Aqua Spacecraft Launched To Study Earth's Water Cycle
     Pasadena - May 06, 2002
     NASA's latest Earth-observing satellite, Aqua, carrying the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument, was successfully launched Saturday morning at 2:55am Pacific Time. Aqua is dedicated to advancing our understanding of Earth's water cycle and our environment.
  • Massive Icebergs May Affect Antarctic Sea Life And Food Chain
  • Changing Antarctica Viewed By NASA Satellite
  • World First In Satellite-Based Monitoring Of Large Lake Areas

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    TERRADAILY
    NASA, University Scientists See Prediction Of Solar Storms In Future
     Huntsville - Apr 30, 2002
     Much like tornado watchers look to the skies for clues that a twister is forming, NASA and university scientists are watching the Sun in an effort to better predict space weather -- blasts of particles from the Sun that impact the magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the Earth.
  • Origin Of Bipedalism Closely Tied To Environmental Changes
  • US, India Hold Talks To Combat Cyber Attacks
  • Victoria To Be Slashed In Two

    • CIVIL NUCLEAR
    Peaceful Life In Belarus's Contaminated Zone
     Dzemiyanki (AFP) May 3, 2002
     Pyotr Annishenko and his wife Evdokia refused to leave their village in eastern Belarus even though the authorities tried to make them abandon the area polluted by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
  • Native Taiwanese Demand Removal Of Nuclear Waste From Scenic Island
  • Can A New Generation Of Nuclear Reactors Allay Public Fears
  • Russia Risks Chernobyl-Type Accident At Any Time: Greenpeace

    • OUTERPLANETS
    Congress Set To Defy White House Over Pluto
     Los Angeles - May 2, 2002
     The seemingly endless seesaw struggle over whether to launch a flyby probe to Pluto may be nearing a dramatic conclusion as Congress seeks to defy the Bush Administration and its recently appointed NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe who opposes any further funding of a Pluto probe this decade.
    MARSDAILY
    Space Travelers Should Take Care To Avoid Getting Radiated
     Moscow - Apr 30, 2002
     Space expeditions will fly to the Mars in fifteen years if all prerequisites are successfully met. For the future interplanetary expedition Moscow scientists have developed an efficient system to protect the crew from space radiation during the long-term travel to the Mars and back.
  • Sending In The RATs To Mars
  • Fabrication of EuroMARS Begins!
  • Surveyor Continues Its Watch on the Red Planet

    • NUKEWARS
    India Gives Thumbs Up To Strategic Nuke Force
    New Delhi (AFP) May 2, 2002
    The Indian government has given the military the green light to put in place a strategic force to take command of the country's nuclear arsenal, officials said Thursday.
  • India And Pakistan Look Inward
  • New Sub May Replace Kursk
  • US To Follow Up N.Korea Signs

    • COSMOLOGY
    Adding Trillions Of Years To The Universe
     Princeton - May 01, 2002
     A new theory of the universe suggests that space and time may not have begun in a big bang, but may have always existed in an endless cycle of expansion and rebirth.

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    SPACEMART
  • TRW Shareholders Block Northrop Grumman Hostile Bid
  • Iridium Targets Merchant Seamen With Easy Calling Packages
  • XCOR Buys Rotary Rocket Assets

    • TECH SPACE
  • Super-Fast Flashes Could Help Scientists See into a Nucleus
  • Powell Plugs Science As Foreign Policy Tool
  • Marshall Pollution Solution Gets NATO's Attention
    • MISSILE DEFENSE
  • Taiwan's Drills Draw Spy Ships From China, Other Countries: Report
  • Pentagon Flags New Aegis Sale To Japan
  • Pakistan Concerned Over Indian Missile Tests

    • TERRORWARS
  • Bush Anti-Terrorism Strategy Is One War Behind
  • Blair Claims "Treasure" Of Evidence Iraqi WMD Plans
  • Al-Qaeda Leader Says Group Seeking A Radiological Bomb
  • Homeland Defense Could See Tighter Controls On Education

    • GPS NEWS
  • Orbital Wins LA Bus Management Contract
  • GPS Antenna Juggles More Birds Than Ever
  • AeroAstro Leverages Globalstar To Build Low-Cost Asset Tracker

    • EXO WORLDS
  • New Evidence For Organic Compounds In Deep Spaces
  • Evidence For Young Planets Found In Dusty Orbit About Close Star
  • Where Are The Other Earths Beyond The Solar System?

    • SPACE SCIENCE
  • Ames Astrobiology Explorer Scope Chosen For Feasibility Study
  • X-Ray Flashes To Gamma-Ray Bursts
  • Los Alamos Researcher Says 'Black Holes' Aren't Holes At All

    • DRAGON SPACE
  • Shenzhou-5 May Carry Out First Chinese Manned Mission
  • China To Put Man In Space Within Two Years
  • Shenzhou: Half Way There - Analysis by Morris Jones

    • SPACE.WIRE