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Space Station Logistics Feel Rolling Impact Of Shuttle Delays
Houston TX (SPX) May 01, 2007The Expedition 15 crew aboard the International Space Station completed its first week of station orientation as the crew worked with experiments and hardware maintenance. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams began the week with a couple light duty days after the busy handover operations with the former crew. Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Al ... more Arianespace And Japan Continue To Build Long-Term Relationship 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2007Japan continues to play a key role in underpinning the commercial launch operations of Arianespace with a growing number of new Japanese commercial payloads to be orbited and launch services cooperation being developed. During a recent visit to Tokyo, Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall underscored the importance of Arianespace's relationship with Japan - which dates back to the company's establ ... more Galileo Masters 2007 Issues Call For Ideas In Satellite Navigation 
Paris, France (ESA) May 01, 2007If you or your company or university has an innovative idea for a ground-breaking use of satellite navigation, now is the time to put it to the test. This year's Galileo Masters competition opens on 1 May and will remain open for submissions until 31 July 2007. The Application Center Ltd. Oberpfaffenhofen, together with the Munich International Trade Fair and its business-to-business trade ... more Instruments To Dig Deep In Space 
Fayetteville AR (SPX) Apr 30, 2007University of Arkansas researchers, in partnership with a local company will develop a probe for future planetary rovers that will help scientists study the history of the solar system by examining the properties of layers of material beneath the surface of the moon, Mars, comets and other planetary bodies. Scientists at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences and officials of ... more NASA Completes First Checkout Flight Of Airborne Observatory 
Waco TX (SPX) Apr 30, 2007NASA successfully completed the first of several planned checkout test flights of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft. The flight took place in Waco, Texas, to observe the low-speed and low-altitude handling performance of the aircraft. NASA research pilot and former astronaut Gordon Fullerton led the crew making the historic first flight. "Today's first f ... more Hayabusa Starts Fully Fledged Return Trip To Earth 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2007Since February 2007, JAXA has been carefully preparing to start the fully fledged return trip to Earth using the ion engine and one attitude control reaction wheels (as two of the three wheels are unavailable due to anomalies.) The Hayabusa's return to the Earth is scheduled for June 2010. We have faced challenges during the preparation, for example, the establishment of the attitude contr ... more |
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Boston (UPI) April 30, 2007Getting a good night's sleep after learning something new helps you remember that information, and getting regular exercise appears to ward off or delay Parkinson's disease, researchers said Monday. Those are among the results of studies being presented at the 59th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Boston. During the weeklong session, researchers will give more ... more Indian Foreign Secretary In US For Nuclear Talks 
Washington (AFP) Apr 30, 2007Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon held talks here Monday on wide-ranging issues, ahead of key discussions aimed at kickstarting a landmark nuclear cooperation deal with the US. Menon was meeting Monday with US under secretary of state for global affairs and democracy Paula Dobriansky to discuss issues of common concern such as the environment and HIV, Indian embassy officials said. ... more Iran Stymies Nuclear Non-Proliferation Meeting 
Vienna (AFP) Apr 30, 2007Iran rejected a call for full compliance with nuclear safeguards on Monday, stymieing the opening day of a conference here preparing a review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), diplomats said. Delegates from some of the 188 countries taking part said they feared the two-week meeting in Vienna could now descend into the same procedural wrangling that tarnished the last review conference in Ne ... more A Money Laundromat For Nukes Keeps It All That Much Cleaner 
Washington (UPI) April 30, 2007On Oct. 4, 2003, a German cargo ship, the BBC China, was inspected in the southern Italian port of Taranto as part of an ongoing program designed to check on ships that might be transporting equipment to assist nuclear proliferation. The inspection disclosed sophisticated components designed to facilitate the erection of centrifuges indispensable for the enrichment of weapons-grade uranium. The ... more |
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Columbus OH (SPX) May 01, 2007Scientists here have designed a new, interactive map of the spread of the avian flu virus (H5N1) that for the first time incorporates genetic, geographic and evolutionary information that may help predict where the next outbreak of the virus is likely to occur. In the process, they also tested hypotheses about the nature of specific strains of the virus that appear to be heading westward and hav ... more Beijing Restrictions Offer Case Study In Emissions Of Key Atmospheric Gases 
Cambridge, MA (SPX) May 01, 2007The Chinese government's restrictions on Beijing motorists during a three-day conference last November -- widely viewed as a dress rehearsal for efforts to slash smog and airborne pollutants during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing -- succeeded in cutting the city's emissions of one important class of atmospheric gases by an impressive 40 percent. That's the conclusion of Harvard Un ... more Ape Gestures Offer Clues To The Evolution Of Human Communication 
Druid Hills GA (SPX) May 01, 2007Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found bonobos and chimpanzees use manual gestures of their hands, feet and limbs more flexibly than they do facial expressions and vocalizations, further supporting the evolution of human language began with gestures as the gestural origin hypothesis of language suggests. This study appears in the current issue of ... more China Warns Against Rich Only Climate Agenda 
Bangkok (AFP) April 30, 2007China warned here Monday that the developed world should not dominate a key UN meeting aimed at tackling global warming, while insisting it was fully committed to fighting climate change. As the week-long meeting of about 400 of the world's top scientists and experts began to look at how to combat global warming, a Chinese delegate called for the interests of poorer countries to be recognised. ... more Household Fuels In Poor Countries Cause Five Pct Of Deaths 
Geneva (AFP) April 30, 2007Almost five percent of deaths and disease are caused by household air pollution in 21 mainly African countries, and could be easily prevented by switching fuels, the World Health Organisation said Monday. The health risks could be eliminated and some 1.5 million lives saved if people in the world's poorest countries were able to give up solid fuels, the WHO said in a statement. Reliance on ... more
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