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May 7, 2002
SPACE TRAVEL
Students' Pizza Crust Takes NASA Space Food Prize

no wood fired pizza available here - just really expensive frozen ones
Ames - May 07, 2002
 A pizza crust developed by Iowa State students has won first prize in a NASA competition organized by the agency's Food Technology Commercial Space Center that may someday allow astronauts to enjoy pizza in space. Dubbed EZ Crust, the pizza is made from okara, a high-fiber, high-protein by-product of soymilk and tofu production.
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    TRW Signs Confidentiality Agreement Northrop To Explore Deals
     Cleveland (AFP) May 6, 2002
     TRW said Monday it had signed a confidentiality agreement with defense giant Northrop Grumman as part of its review of strategic alternatives that could involve a merger.
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    TERRORWARS
    US Warns Trio Of Old Foes To Avoid WMDs
      Washington (AFP) May 6, 2002
     The United States Monday accused Cuba, Syria and Libya, three countries it deems to be sponsors of international terrorism, of seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction and effectively put them on a waiting list of the "axis of evil."
  • 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

    • MARSDAILY
    MGS Aging Gracefully In Mars Orbit
     Pasadena (JPL) May 3, 2002
     As an automobile ages, it usually requires more trips to a mechanic. Spacecraft are designed for a primary mission; when all is going well, the mission is often extended to obtain more data for other research objectives.
  • Sending In The RATs To Mars
  • Fabrication of EuroMARS Begins!
  • Surveyor Continues Its Watch on the Red Planet

    • GPS NEWS
    Keeping Track Of Field Scientists
     Sydney - May 06, 2002
     Research vehicles in remote outback areas will soon be tracked via satellite over the Internet, using new Vehicle Tracking Equipment (VTE) technology that was originally developed to track animals such as Neale, a 2.4 metre white shark that marine biologists have been tracking the past year off south-eastern Australia.
  • Orbital Wins LA Bus Management Contract
  • GPS Antenna Juggles More Birds Than Ever
  • AeroAstro Leverages Globalstar To Build Low-Cost Asset Tracker

    • TERRADAILY
    Ice Coring Team Heads For Alaska
     Columbus - Apr 26, 2002
     Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson hopes that once his latest expedition ends in early summer, he will have one of the so-far missing pieces to the global climate change puzzle -- a record of ancient weather trapped inside ice from Alaskan glaciers that could date back thousands of years.
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  • Origin Of Bipedalism Closely Tied To Environmental Changes
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    • CIVIL NUCLEAR
    New Research Could Spearhead Permanent Nuclear Waste Storage
      West Lafayette - May 07, 2002
     Researchers armed with a laser are closer to knowing how to prepare millions of gallons of highly radioactive nuclear waste for permanent storage. The study is the first to describe the chemistry of waste formed by aluminum and alkaline, or caustic sodium compounds, mixing with high-level radioactive material.
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  • Taiwanese Demand Removal Of Nuclear Waste
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    • 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.
    NUKEWARS
    Russia To Raise Fragments From Kursk Sub
     Moscow (AFP) May 6, 2002
     Russian authorities plan to recover sonar material and part of a torpedo tube that stayed on the seabed after the raising of the stricken nuclear submarine Kursk last year, naval officials said Monday.
  • India Gives Thumbs Up To Strategic Nuke Force
  • India And Pakistan Look Inward
  • New Sub May Replace Kursk

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  • Comet Chaser Ships to the Cape For July 1 Launch

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  • Fire Scout UAV At China Lake For First Flight
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    • EARTH OBSERVATION
  • Aqua Spacecraft Launched To Study Earth's Water Cycle
  • Massive Icebergs May Affect Antarctic Sea Life And Food Chain
  • Changing Antarctica Viewed By NASA Satellite

    • 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
  • Regional Spy Ships Watch Taiwanese Games
  • Pentagon Flags New Aegis Sale To Japan
  • Pakistan Concerned Over Indian Missile Tests

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  • New Evidence For Organic Compounds In Deep Spaces
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  • Adding Trillions Of Years To The Universe
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  • Los Alamos Researcher Says 'Black Holes' Aren't Holes At All

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  • Shenzhou-5 May Carry Out First Chinese Manned Mission
  • China To Put Man In Space Within Two Years
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