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Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 27, 2002A vast forum on the future of the planet has got underway here amid calls for decisive action to haul billions of people out of poverty and save the planet's fast-dwindling resources from further plundering.In an opening speech to the Earth Summit on Monday, South African President Thabo Mbeki described the Earth as a village divided by a river into districts of want and wealth, while its environment steadily sickened.
Beijing - Aug 27, 2002Two dummies will be part of a collection of experiments on Shenzhou-4 (SZ-4) that will be the last unmanned test mission of the manned spacecraft later this year, Chinese media has reported in recent days.
Greenbelt - Aug 27, 2002NASA has selected Spectrum Astro, of Gilbert, AZ, to build the Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Observatory. GLAST will have the ability to detect gamma rays from the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Amazing Magnetic Fluids 
Huntsville - Aug 27, 2002If you don't see it for yourself, you might not believe it. A grey blob oozes down the side of a laboratory beaker. It's heading for the table, but before it gets there a low hum fills the air. Someone just switched on an electromagnet. The goop stiffens, quivers, then carries on oozing only after the hum subsides. Lifting The Veil On Planet Formation 
Pasadena (JPL) Aug 27, 2002Early next year, the field of new planet observations will be extended into space with the launch of the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). Just Park It Over Near Olympus Mons 
Moffett Field - Aug 26, 2002Scientists preparing for NASA's next Mars mission, the twin Mars Exploration Rovers scheduled for launch in June and July 2003, are now able to view more than 44,000 high-resolution images of Mars collected by the Mars Global Surveyor. Some show detail at less than three meters per pixel. NASA's Kennedy Space Center: Old, Worn Out And Cash Starved 
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2002Modern 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, with NASA having to postpone launches because of failing equipment, which, in many cases, dates back to the Apollo program on the 1960s.
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San Diego - Aug 27, 2002  The cockroach is an insect despised for its ubiquitousness, among other reasons. Yet, it may hold a key to the next evolutionary step in the "life" of robots.Info Technology As Tool For Sustainable Development Geneva (IPS) Aug 26, 2002  Information technology can play an important role in fomenting sustainable development, says the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in a new report prepared for the international summit that began this week in Johannesburg.Loss Of Contour Will Put Spotlight On APL Los Angeles - Aug 25, 2002  The loss of the Contour comet probe will soon put the investigative spotlight on the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland as a NASA appointed panel seeks to find out what went wrong with the $180 million probe as it fired its main engine to leave Earth orbit on August 15.The Spirit of Mars Scottsdale - August 26, 2002  For nearly a century Mars has been the blue screen onto which we project, in scientific speculation as well as literature, two powerful concepts: the West and the Other. Looking at the sequence of imagined Marses (see the previous edition of this column, "Barsoom's Legacy), we the evolution of American hopes and fears. In turn, these projections continue to shape the meaning of Mars for us. |
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