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Atlantis Launch Delayed Until At Least Tuesday
Washington DC (AFP) Aug 27, 2006NASA said Sunday it may roll Atlantis back to its hangar to protect it from an incoming storm, a move that would delay liftoff to the Station by more than a week. The US space agency will try to launch Atlantis around September 7-8 if Tuesday's liftoff is canceled at the Kennedy Space Center on Florida's eastern coast due to conflicts with Russian Soyuz launch plans. But NASA officials remained hopeful they could launch the shuttle Tuesday at 3:42 pm (1942 GMT) on the first major ISS construction mission in nearly four years. |
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Planetary Line Up Reduced To Four Rocky Worlds And Four Gas Giants: Pluto Out Prague, Czech (SPX) Aug 25, 2006 
If you woke up Thursday morning and sensed something was different about the world around you, you're absolutely right. Pluto is no longer a planet. The International Astronomical Union, wrapping up its meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, has resolved one of the most hotly-debated topics in the cosmos by approving a specific definition that gives our solar system eight planets, instead of the nine most of us grew up memorizing.Will THEL Live Again Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2006 
The war between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon has revived the prospects of a long-abandoned laser defense against short-range rockets. Wars bury the reputations of old weapons and transform the standing of new or previously despised ones. |
Soyuz Capsule Modified For First Female Space Tourist
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Aug 25, 2006Russian space engineers are modifying a Soyuz capsule for the first female space tourist ahead of a launch for the International Space Station (ISS) next month, officials said Wednesday. "A woman's organism is different, that's why we need to modify some of the life systems in the capsule," Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the RKK Energia space corporation was quoted by ITAR-TASS as saying. One-Two Particle Punch Greater Astronaut Risk 
Upton NY (SPX) Aug 25, 2006It doesn't just matter how much radiation an astronaut is exposed to, time and the order in which charged particles strike human cells are important factors as well. That's the main finding of a study simulating radiation exposure conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory. NASA Ames Collaborates On Lunar Race Simulation Learning System 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2006NASA Ames Research Center has signed an agreement to collaborate with VirtueArts, Inc., and VirtuePlay, Inc., both of Los Angeles, Calif., for engineering and real-time simulation training in a variety of applications, including a dynamic learning system that allows users to race virtual lunar buggies in 3D. Argentina Plans Multi-Billion-Dollar Nuke Initiative Buenos Aires (AFP) Aug 24, 2006 
Argentina has announced a major nuclear initiative worth 3.5 billion dollars to finish its third nuclear power plant, start a fourth and resume production of enriched uranium. |
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ESA's Cluster Mission Establishes Why Earth's Aurorae Shine
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 25, 2006ESA's Cluster mission has established that high-speed flows of electrified gas, known as bursty bulk flows, in the Earth's magnetic field are the carriers of decisive amounts of mass, energy and magnetic perturbation towards the Earth during magnetic substorms. When substorms occur, energetic particles strike our atmosphere, causing aurorae to shine. Wispy Dust And Gas Paint Portrait Of Starbirth 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 25, 2006This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with dust on a canvas of astronomical size. The LMC is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Sulfur Stinks Up Oxygen Theories 
University Park PA (SPX) Aug 25, 2006Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth's atmosphere began to contain oxygen, according to researchers from the U.S., Canada and Japan. |
Weather Looks Good For Atlantis Launch Sunday
Washington DC (AFP) Aug 25, 2006Weather conditions appear favorable for Sunday's planned launch of the space shhuttle Atlantis from Cape Canaveral, Florida, a NASA official said Thursday. "Overall, the weather is looking pretty good for launch day," said shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters, though she added: "We have a 30 percent chance of weather prohibiting launch." Microscopic Passengers To Hitch Shuttle Ride 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 25, 2006When space shuttle Atlantis rockets into space later this week, it will take along three kinds of microbes so scientists can study how their genetic responses and their ability to cause disease change. The 'Microbe' experiment will study three common microorganisms that have been identified as potential threats to crew health. Simpkins Director of New KSC Engineering Group 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 23, 2006NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy announced today that Patrick Simpkins has been appointed the director of the center's new Engineering Directorate. He replaces Steve Altemus, originally selected for the position, who recently accepted another position at Johnson Space Center in Houston. |
US Rallying Allies, Partners On Iran
Kennebunkport ME (AFP) Aug 25, 2006US President George W. Bush on Thursday led a US diplomatic effort to ensure a united response to Iran's nuclear program one week before Tehran may face United Nations sanctions. Bush telephoned the leaders of Germany and Italy, while US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called her Russian and German counterparts as well as EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, US officials told reporters. LM Demos Airborne Control System To Manage Unmanned Aircraft Teaming 
Owego NY (SPX) Aug 25, 2006Lockheed Martin has completed flight demonstrations of a new system that will enable U.S. Army command and control helicopters to form and manage teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and manned strike aircraft. China's Military Holds High-Tech War Exercise 
Beijing, China (AFP) Aug 25, 2006China's military has conducted a first-ever war exercise involving joint forces at a northern training base to test its high-technology combat capabilities, Xinhua news agency said Thursday. MISSILE DEFENSE Australia, EU Nations Warn Of Portable Missile Threat To Airliners 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 24, 2006Australia and European countries on Thursday called for an international clampdown on the illicit trade in shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, warning that civilian airliners are at risk. CONTENT PARTNERS
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Massive Philippines Oil Spill Raises Health Fears
Nueva Valencia (AFP) Philippines, Aug 24, 2006Hundreds of people have fallen sick and one man has died in central Philippines following the country's worst ever oil spill, health officials said Thursday. The health department has sent medical teams to Guimaras island, which bore the brunt of the disaster, where 329 people have complained of a range of symptoms including skin irritation and respiratory problems. First-Ever Look At Combined Causes Of North Atlantic And Arctic Ocean Freshening 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Aug 25, 2006A new analysis of 50 years of changes in freshwater inputs to the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic may help shed light on what's behind the recently observed freshening of the North Atlantic Ocean. Pakistan Clerics Order Aid Groups To Fire Women 
Islamabad (AFP) Aug 24, 2006Muslim clerics in part of earthquake-hit Pakistani Kashmir have told aid agencies to fire all local women employees or face violent protests, officials and religious leaders said Thursday. Prevention Vital Against Desertification 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 24, 2006Parched Asian nations such as Mongolia and China must act swiftly to prevent the creeping spread of deserts which costs the global economy 42 billion dollars a year, a UN expert said Thursday. |
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