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NASA probe sends first pictures from Martian arctic
Washington (AFP) May 26, 2008A NASA probe sent back never-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday after a near perfect landing in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet. Pictures from the Phoenix probe provided the first glimpse of the planet's Arctic plains -- a desolate, flat landscape of stony, frozen ground. The images also confirmed that the solar arrays needed ... more French skydiver postpones historic jump 
North Battleford, Saskatchewan (AFP) May 26, 2008Strong winds have forced French skydiver Michel Fournier to postpone his historic 40-kilometer (25-mile) leap from the edge of the stratosphere back to Earth, which is now set for Tuesday, his spokeswoman said. At dawn Monday, the 64-year-old parachutist had been tucked into the cabin of a helium balloon, inhaling canned oxygen to purge his blood of nitrogen to lessen the risk of an embolism ... more The Lunar GRAIL 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 27, 2008Meet MIT professor of physics Maria Zuber. She's dynamic, intelligent, intense, and she's on a quest for the Grail. No, not that Grail. Zuber is the principal investigator of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory - "GRAIL" for short. It's a new NASA mission slated for launch in 2011 that will probe the moon's quirky gravity field. Data from GRAIL will help scientists understand forc ... more Lockheed Martin-Built Phoenix Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Mars 
Denver CO (SPX) May 27, 2008NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. Late Sunday afternoon, the Phoenix Mars Lander, built by Lockheed Martin, navigated a dramatic blazing descent through the planet's atmosphere, positioning Phoenix to dig down and touch the planet's subsurface ice. At 4:24 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time May 25, onboard software commands fired six separation nuts and jettisoned the cru ... more Shuttle Discovery Crew On Track For May 31 Liftoff 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 27, 2008With less than a week remaining until the start of the STS-124 launch countdown, space shuttle Discovery is in place at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A. Final preparations are on schedule for liftoff May 31 at 5:02 p.m. EDT. The countdown begins May 28 at 3 p.m., counting from the T-43 hour mark. "Preparations are going really well," Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach said at ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Any institution that lasts 50 years would have its share of highs and lows, but those of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford have stretched from searching out long lost wreckage at the bottom of the ocean to investigating the rarefied heights of Einsteinian physics in orbit. Roughly 500 alumni, students, faculty and staff gathered during a recent weekend to swap thos ... more Mars Cold Goes Down Deep 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2008New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. The findings suggest any liquid water that might exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living in that water, would be located deeper than scientists had suspected. "We found that the rocky surface of Mars is no ... more One Hundred Explosions On The Moon And Counting 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 27, 2008Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under "L"...for lunatic. Not anymore. Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times. "They're explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the Moon," explai ... more NASA sets date for shuttle's final repair trip to Hubble 
Washington (AFP) May 22, 2008Space shuttle Atlantis will embark on the final repair and maintenance mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on October 8, instead of the end of August as planned, NASA announced Thursday. The US space agency also fixed November 10 as the date for the launch of the shuttle Endeavour for a supply trip to the International Space Station. Its original launch date was October 16. ... more Pacific students lagging in computer age: researcher 
Majuro (AFP) May 25, 2008Pacific island students are falling behind in the computer age due to a lack of facilities and access to the few resources available, an advisor to the Pacific Forum said Sunday. In many island countries, elementary school children have virtually no access to the Internet and little opportunity to use computers, Forum secretariat telecommunications advisor John Budden said here. ... more |
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Dallas (UPI) May 25, 2008 As the Swiss prepare to unveil a powerful particle accelerator, the United States finds itself in the "minor leagues" of particle physics, scientists say. There is still consternation among the scientific community over a decision by Congress 15 years ago to cut off funding for the proposed Superconducting Super Collider near Dallas, a decision that continues to have consequences for th ... more Hubble And Keck Images Show Jupiter Turbulence 
Berkeley CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Increased turbulence and storms first observed on Jupiter more than two years ago are still raging, according to astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, who snapped high-resolution pictures of the planet earlier this month. Captured with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the 10-meter Keck II telescope, this so-called "major ... more Rokot Carrier With Three Military Satellites Blasts Off From Plesetsk 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 26, 2008A Russian Rokot carrier rocket with three military satellites and one civilian satellite has been successfully launched from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia, the Russian Space Forces said on Friday. The Rokot launch vehicle, developed by the state-run Khrunichev Center, is a modification of the RS-18 (SS-19 Mod.1 Stiletto) two-stage ballistic missile that is being decommissio ... more Russia And China Against Deployment Of Weapons In Space 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) May 27, 2008Russia and China want an international agreement to be drafted banning the deployment of weapons in space, the countries' leaders said on Friday in a joint declaration after talks in Beijing. "The sides are in favor of the peaceful use of space, but are against the deployment of weapons in space or a space arms race," the declaration said. In February Russia and China presented at a ... more SAIC Awarded Contract To Support Space And Naval Warfare Systems Command 
San Diego CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Science Applications International Corporation has won a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Program Executive Office for command and control, communications, computers and intelligence (PEO C4I) to provide specialized network infrastructure support for legacy systems. This single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a two year base ... more
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