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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 21, 2009 
Recently, Aviation Week and Space News both published reports speculating on several options the Augustine Panel may recommend as the blueprint for NASA's future human space flight program. If these are indeed the true options the Panel will present to the Obama Administration later this month, the U.S. will lose the opportunity to create a truly advantageous solar system exploration ... read more 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 21, 2009Space shuttle Discovery's seven astronauts flew to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final prelaunch preparations Wednesday evening. In the crew quarters of Kennedy's Operations and Checkout Building they will review flight data and check out their launch-and-entry suits today. Countdown to the launch of the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station begins at 11 p.m ... more |
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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 Invasive plants and bacteria threaten Iraq's Euphrates 
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Seoul (AFP) Aug 20, 2009Officials Thursday blamed a computer software problem for the postponement of South Korea's first space rocket launch just minutes before the eagerly-awaited blast-off. They defended the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 programme amid public frustration at the latest in a series of delays in the project. Seoul has invested 502.5 billion won (419 million dollars) and much national pride in ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2009Spirit has passed 2,000 sols on the surface of Mars, yet another milestone. Starting its third sol millennia, Spirit continues to profile the geology at the location where the rover is embedded, a site called "Troy" on the west side of "Home Plate." On Sol 1995 (Aug. 13, 2009), Spirit continued the campaign of grinding deeper into surface targets, then collecting in situ (contact) ... more  
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2009Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found. By comparing proteins present in more than 3000 different prokaryotes - a type of single-celled organism without a nucleus - molecular biologist James A. Lake from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Aug 19, 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's reported promise to Israeli President Shimon Peres that Moscow will reconsider the sale of powerful S-300 air-defense missiles to Iran could determine whether Israel - and the United States for that matter - launches pre-emptive strikes against Tehran's nuclear facilities. "President Medvedev promised to review this issue once again after I explaine ... more 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 20, 2009Pakistan came under severe pressure from the major nuclear powers on Thursday to end its defiance of 64 other countries in blocking international disarmament talks. Despite warnings that the blockage could discredit the world's principal disarmament forum, Pakistan's ambassador Zamir Akram held firm against an unusual joint offensive by Britain, China, Russia and the United States. ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 21, 2009North Korea announced on Thursday it was scrapping tough border restrictions it had imposed on South Korean travellers, the latest in a series of conciliatory moves after months of hostility. Pyongyang's diplomats meanwhile held talks in the United States and the communist North announced it is sending a high-level delegation to Seoul to mourn former South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung. ... more |
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