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With launch only eight months from now, there are continuing technical problems with NASA's twin 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers that could possibly delay the arrival of one or both rovers at Mars until 2008. Spooked by back-to-back failures at Mars in 1999, NASA is considering alternate launch plans that would delay the missions until fully assured the landers have the maximum chance of successfully landing on Mars using the Pathfinder hard landing technique of cushioning the lander for final touchdown within a cocoon of shock absorbing balloons.
India To Offer Cheaper Taxi Rides Into Space With Polar Launcher 
New Delhi (IPS) Sep 16, 2002In the burgeoning world market for satellite launches and space services, India offers the cheapest taxi rides on its rockets. US Pop Star In Russia Still Hopeful About Space Flight 
Moscow (AFP) Sep 13, 2002US boy band heartthrob Lance Bass is still in Moscow trying to raise money for a Russian flight to the International Space Station (ISS), Russian space officials said on Thursday. But an unnamed official at Russia's Rosaviakosmos space agency told Interfax news agency that Bass could not get onto the flight next month even if he offered to pay twice the previous price of 20 million dollars. Space Proves Its Mettle As Emerging Battlefield 
Nellis AFB - Sep 16, 2002A recently concluded exercise has proven that space is rapidly improving all aspects of the battlefield operations, said the commander of last month's 11-day Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2002. "We intended to send information as rapidly as possible from the combined air operations center, where the decisions can be made, to the warfighter in the air so that we can prosecute faster," said Lt. Gen. Tom Hobbins, 12th Air Force commander at Davis-Monthan AFB. India in Dilemma over U.S. Plans to Attack Iraq 
New Delhi (IPS) Sep 16, 2002As the United States steps up its bellicose anti-Iraq rhetoric and prepares to move the United Nations to stir up the issue of combating the "terrorist" regime of Saddam Hussein, the Indian government finds itself locked in the horns of a dilemma. Road to N.Korea May Lead to Success or Failure 
Tokyo (IPS) Sep 16, 2002Japan is abuzz over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to North Korea next week, one that has as much potential for success as it has for yet another failure. TRW Wins Contract To Build Next Space Scope
TRW has been selected by NASA as the winner of an industry competition to build the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. To be named the James Webb Space Telescope in honor of the second NASA administrator, the new telescope will be the most powerful telescope ever built with a mirror nearly three times that of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Buenos Aires (IPS) Sep 16, 2002  The size of the hole in the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer has stabilised, but scientists and environmentalists warn that the danger persists, evidenced by the fact that the 100,000 residents of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province have been exposed to excessive solar radiation this week.China Pushes Space Station Timeline Out 25 Years Beijing - Sep 16, 2002  A Chinese scientist declared last week that China would orbit its own space station in 25 years, the newspaper Wuhan Evening News reported last Wednesday (Sept. 11).Long-awaited Leadership Transition on Hold Beijing (IPS) Sep 16, 2002  An escalating media crackdown and a high-pitched propaganda campaign glorifying Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin's tenets are signs indicating that a long-scheduled political transition in China has been put on hold.Cruising About In The 22nd Century Huntsville - Sep 16, 2002  Every parent has heard the cry of a child from the back seat of the car "are we there yet" It usually begins about 15 minutes after the start of any family trip. Good thing we rarely travel more than a few hundred or a few thousand miles from home.Spaceships Among The Olive Groves Scottsdale - Sep 11, 2002  In the year since September 11, 2001, we have begun to acknowledge, finally, that the world has changed. Back in the Cold War, both sides believed that reason and technology were prime values and the key to victory. Space - science and engineering alike - held an assured pride of place. |
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