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Five years ago on Friday, July 4, 1997, American flags dressed the nation in a giant Independence Day celebration. It was National Hot Dog Month, and an estimated 155 million hot dogs hit the grill that weekend alone. Space must have been on moviegoers minds, as the alien flick "Men in Black" took in a whopping $84 million during its holiday opening.
Paris (ESA) Jul 04, 2002From 4 to 10 October 2002, the Education Office of the European Space Agency (ESA) will celebrate World Space Week by giving young Europeans the chance to tell the world their ideas on what daily life on Mars might be like 45 years from now. South Pole May Provide Test For Mars Drilling 
Berkeley - Jul 03, 2002Measurements of the ice temperature far below the South Pole suggest that a so-called "lake" discovered at the base of the ice is most likely permafrost - a frozen mixture of dirt and ice - because the temperature is too low for liquid water. And Now The Weather .. On Mars! 
Paris (ESA) July 04, 2002Blinding dust storms can seriously ruin your plans for a landing on Mars. ESA is adapting the global climate models that we use to forecast our weather on Earth for the turbulent conditions that Mars offers its future visitors. The Spacefaring Web: 2.10 Saluting the Flag of Convenience 
Scottsdale - Jul 04, 2002Space-colony independence movements, usually modeled upon the American Revolution, are a hoary staple of science fiction. While a sci-fi Fourth of July may be valuable as entertainment and Aesopian analogy, the concept doesn't hold up well as a likely outcome of foreseeable economic, political and cultural inputs. Pathfinder's 5th Anniversary Reveals Big Future for Mars 
Pasadena - July 4, 2002Five years ago on Friday, July 4, 1997, American flags dressed the nation in a giant Independence Day celebration. It was National Hot Dog Month, and an estimated 155 million hot dogs hit the grill that weekend alone. Space must have been on moviegoers minds, as the alien flick "Men in Black" took in a whopping $84 million during its holiday opening. SwRI: New Facility For Space Instrument Development 
San Antonio - July 2, 2002An innovative calibration and instrument development facility at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is helping scientists and engineers test and design space plasma instruments far faster and more reliably than previously possible. ESA Highlights Contributions Of Space Imagery To Disaster Relief 
Paris (ESA) July 03, 2002Speaking at last week's annual meeting of an international association working to integrate information technologies for disaster-relief efforts, Stephen Briggs, head of the Earth observation applications for the European Space Agency (ESA), pointed to the Agency's satellite imagery and other programmes as ways space technology can be used to mitigate the effects of natural and man-made disasters. Forty Years Of Global Chit Chat 
New York - July 4, 2002On July 10, 2002, Loral Skynet will mark the 40th anniversary of the launch of Telstar 1, the world's first active communications satellite built by Skynet's predecessors at AT&T and Bell Laboratories.
Boulder - Jul 04, 2002Capping two years of research, a nationwide group of over 100 scientists has created a powerful new computer model of the Earth's climate. The model surpasses previous efforts by successfully incorporating the impact of such variables as ocean currents and changes in land-surface temperatures. Shenzhou-4 May Rocket Into Space In September 
Beijing - Jul 01, 2002The next test flight of China's Shenzhou manned spacecraft may occur as soon as this September, according to various pieces of information that the Chinese media has reported since April.
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Kourou - Jul 4, 2002  The launch of Arianespace's eighth mission of the year is on schedule for July 5, when a heavy-lift Ariane 5 is to loft a dual telecommunications satellite payload.Canada's SCISAT-1 Unveiled: First Science Satellite in over 30 Years Winnipeg - July 4, 2002  Canada's first science satellite in over thirty years, SCISAT-1, was unveiled this week at a ceremony at Magellan Aerospace's Bristol facility in Winnipeg.Delta 2 Launches Contour On Comet Mission KSC - July 3, 2002  A Boeing Delta 2 rocket has launched NASA's deep space comet explorer Contour. Launch was at 2.47am EDT (06:47 GMT). Contour will spend the next 25 days in orbit ahead of it's deep space trajectory insertion Aug 15. Contour's first comet flyby will be Encke on Nov 12, 2003.The Art Of Life Is Universal Zurich - Jun 27, 2002 One might say his studio is the universe, because the art work of Arthur Woods focuses on space. The Swiss-American artist who lives near Zurich conceived and built the first sculpture designed for a zero-gravity habitat and actually managed to exhibit it on the Mir space station.
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