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North Korea Set To Test New Missile Engines: Report Seoul (AFP) May 6, 2004 The United States has stepped up surveillance over North Korea as the Stalinist country is set to test engines for a ballistic missile capable of hitting US territory, a newspaper reported here Thursday. North Korea has restored facilities for missile engine testing destroyed by an explosion in December 2002, the JoongAng newspaper said, citing South Korean diplomatic and defense sources. |
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Study May Cast Doubt On Some 1996 Evidence Of Past Life On Mars Houston TX (SPX) May 06, 2004 The scientific debate over whether a meteorite contains evidence of past life on Mars continues to intensify, with colleagues of the team that announced the possibility in 1996 revealing new findings that may cast doubt on some of that earlier work. Spirit Back On Station With Communication Problem Solved Pasadena (JPL) May 05, 2004 Mission control at JPL for NASA's Mars Exporation Rovers reported Wednesday that the previous days communication problems have been resolved. Further details are expected to be provided during this Thursday's morning press briefing that will be broadcast via NASA TV. |
JFK, Bush Space Plans Similar Washington (UPI) May 05, 2004 More than four decades ago, on May 5, 1961, a Navy commander squeezed into a spaceship seat the size of a bathtub and was blasted into outer space for a history-making trip. American astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. spent a scant 15 minutes in flight aboard his Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, but it was enough to electrify a nation. Space: A Job For Man Or Machine? Moffett Field (SPX) May 04, 2004 What martian scenery will greet the first human visitor? Chaikin noted that "Mars is a geological wonder, with canyons as long as the continental United States. With big volcanoes, sucha as the largest in our solar system--Olympus--which towers three times higher than Mount Everest." |
LockMart Considers EELVs For Plan Bush Washington (SPX) May 05, 2004 John Karas, Lockheed Martin vice president for Space Exploration, said today that incremental, evolutionary development of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) family that began in the 1960s is a vital lesson that can yield important dividends well into the future. |
Ultrafast Quantum Computing A Step Closer To A Superposition Dot New York (UPI) May 06, 2004 New transistors possess microscopic parts capable of quantum computing, a potentially revolutionary property that governments and organizations worldwide are competing to acquire. It's Time For Hubble-2 Honolulu - May 5, 2004 There are a lot of issues to debate right now about the future of space flight, and we Space Cadets are debating them furiously among ourselves. |
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