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 Upham NM (SPX) Aug 05, 2009 
New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced a successful launch today for aerospace manufacturing company Moog-FTS at Spaceport America. The launch was a test of a ground-launched UAV prototype. All test objectives were met during the vehicle's low altitude suborbital trajectory. The specially designed research and development vehicle was launched by UP Aerospace. "Moog-FTS ... read more 
Providence, RI (SPX) Aug 05, 2009This image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Australia is visible in the lower center of the image. The image is presented as a false-color composite with oceans a dark blue, clouds white, and vegetation an enha ... more |
African Union climate summit says forming mining coalition
Press Release from Business Wire: Quectel Wireless Solutions Against the tide: Filipinos battle rising sea on sinking island Ethiopians dream of an electric car future Study warns US emissions progress may flatline Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks Smoke from 2023 Canada fires linked to thousands of deaths: study Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Press Release from Business Wire: International Treatment Solutions Group Top EU court upholds nuclear green label 
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2009With this essay by Ray Villard, news director for the Hubble Space Telescope, Astrobiology Magazine presents another in our series of 'Gedanken', or thought, experiments - musings by noted scientists on scientific mysteries in a series of "what if" scenarios. Gedanken experiments, which have been used for hundreds of years by scientists and philosophers to ponder thorny problems, rely on the pow ... more  
Akron OH (SPX) Aug 05, 2009The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Goodyear Tire have developed an airless tire to transport large, long-range vehicles across the surface of the moon. The new "Spring Tire" with 800 load bearing springs is designed to carry much heavier vehicles over much greater distances than the wire mesh tire previously used on the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The new t ... more  
Beijing, China (XNA) Aug 04, 2009Future Chinese astronauts must be close to perfection to meet the standards set for the men and women who will lead China into outer space. They have to be scar-free from head to toe, have no history of serious illnesses and be unmarred by bad breath or dental cavities. Officials from the No 454 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, said ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2009Scientists have long debated the role of asteroid and comet impacts in mass extinctions on Earth. New research may indicate that it is highly unlikely that comets caused any mass extinctions. The findings could have implications in determining the likelihood of globally-damaging impacts in our planet's future. Scientists have debated how many mass extinction events in Earth's history were ... more 
Miami (UPI) Aug 3, 2009 Four Miami-area high school students have an unusual summer job on their resumes: building a cosmic ray detector alongside nuclear physicists. The four participated in a six-week paid internship with Florida International University's physics department, selected from a pool of top student applicants, The Miami Herald reported Monday. "It was a little overwhelming at first," Alys ... more 
Bangalore, India (IANS) Aug 04, 2009In the nine months India's Chandrayaan-1 has been circling the moon everyone connected with it has been awarded, rewarded or interviewed on TV, except the scientist whose pioneering work in liquid propulsion was pivotal to the mission's success. Perhaps it had something to do with the false spying charges under which he was arrested in 1994. It may seem odd but Nambi Narayanan who introduc ... more |
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