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Modern and cutting edge in the 1960s, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the home of the US space program, is showing its age -- and as it slows, so does the space program. At least twice this year, NASA has had to postpone launches because of failing equipment, which, in many cases, dates back to the Apollo program on the 1960s. But with budgets continuing to head south many are increasingly concerned that America faces growing problems maintaining a manned spaceflight program.
Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2002NASA announced Thursday it was postponing the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis to October 2 to allow engineers more time to repair the two crawler transporters that move shuttles to their launchpad. Earlier this month NASA engineers found cracks in the bearings of the two aging crawler transporters, giant flatbed vehicles with tractor-like treads. Atlas V Roars Into Orbit With A Hot Bird 
Cape Canaveral - Aug 21, 2002The first Atlas V launch vehicle, designated AV-001, roared into orbit today marking a perfect maiden flight. On board was a the Hotbird 6 commercial satellite owned by Eutelsat. Launch was on time at 6:05pm EDT (2205 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida.
San Antonio - August 14, 2002Using a combination of Internet, relational database and Java programming technologies, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is significantly improving the ground operations support capabilities of the nation's space program. The new ground support operating systems already have been used on four missions: Cassini, IMAGE, STEREO and Swift. Making Money Grow On Trees 
Stanford - Aug 23, 2002Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold nanoparticles. Gilat Brings VSat To Kazakhstan With 400 New Sites 
Petah Tikva - Aug 22, 2002Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been selected by Astel OJSC to supply two satellite rural telephony/Internet networks of 200 sites each for the Kazakhstan State Postal Office (KazPost) and the State Center on Pension Payment. In Search Of A Universal Dark Secret 
Boston - Aug 22, 2002Physics graduate student Taotao Fang's thesis project in the late 1990s was to search for a hot, diffuse gas located between galaxies. The gas forms a diffuse cosmic web connecting clusters of galaxies. Scientists Confirm Age Of The Oldest Meteorite Collision On Earth 
Stanford - Aug 23, 2002A team of geologists has determined the age of the oldest known meteorite impact on Earth - a catastrophic event that generated massive shockwaves across the planet billions of years before a similar event helped wipe out the dinosaurs. Yeager To Retire From Military Flying After October Airshow 
Edwards AFB - Aug 19, 2002Aviation legend retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager visited Edwards Aug. 12 and 13 to chat with airmen around the base and to prepare for his opening flight at the Edwards 2002 Open House and Air Show Oct. 26.
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Give Me Liberty Huntsville - Aug 22, 2002  Day had broken, cold and reddish, exceedingly cold and reddish from dust suspended in Mars's thin atmosphere, when the explorer climbed the inner crater wall. It was a steep wall and even in four-tenths Earth gravity his spacesuit was cumbersome. No wonder he slipped.Doug Vakoch's And Lands Beyond Beyond Sydney - Aug 23, 2002  So far, humanity's efforts to communicate with extraterrestrials have mostly resembled the way people treat the media. Everybody listens to a certain degree, but very few people talk back.SZ-4 Slated For Launch By January 10 Beijing (AFP) Aug 22, 2002  Shenzhou IV, expected to be the last Chinese test flight before the country begins putting humans into orbit, is due for take off early next year at the latest, state media said Thursday. According to an official who played "an important role" in the launch of the previous mission, the launch date was set for before January 10, the Beijing Times reported.Europe Okays Global Watch Program Paris - Aug 23, 2002  At a recent meeting for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme, the European Space Agency (ESA) detailed its five-year, Euro 83 million plan to establish environmental information services from space.Satellites To Profile Weather Via GPS Boulder - Aug 23, 2002  A revolutionary, globe-spanning satellite network will furnish round-the-clock weather data, monitor climate change, and improve space weather forecasts by intercepting signals from the Global Positioning System (GPS).Blink And Its History Tucson - Aug 23, 2002  Students from Yale University used the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to capture a series of still images of asteroid 2002 NY40 on August 15-16, two nights before its close flyby of Earth. |
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