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The Kuipers Beckon As Pluto Mission Funded
Sacramento - Mar 03, 2003

And Pluto and the Kuipers makes it a solar system wide wrap.
After years of uncertainty, the strange "Pluto War" over whether to launch a Pluto flyby spacecraft in the near future is finally almost over - and Pluto won. NASA, Congress and the White House finally agreed that they do want an early Pluto probe rather than waiting years for as yet untested nuclear electric propulsion system to be developed and flight tested enough for dispatch to Pluto and out in the Kuiper belt beyond.
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    Boeing to Consolidate Delta Launch Vehicle Manufacturing and Assembly
    St. Louis - Mar 03, 2003
    Boeing will consolidate all Delta launch vehicle manufacturing and assembly in Decatur, Ala. Beginning this summer, Delta launch vehicle assembly now done at its Pueblo, Colo., facility will transfer to the company's Decatur facility where Delta IV production and testing is done.

    Shenzhou's Changing Face
    Sydney - Mar 3, 2003
    As China reinforces its goal of launching its first astronauts before the end of the year, it's time to look at another mystery surrounding China's Shenzhou spacecraft.

    Kitty Hawk To Galileo: A Century Spent Soaring Cloud Nine
    Pasadena - Mar 03, 2003
    The flight team for NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft will cease operations on Friday, Feb. 28 after a final playback of scientific data from the robotic explorer's tape recorder.

    Saturday Morning Space Bubbles
    Huntsville - Mar 03, 2003
    Space station science officer Don Pettit always looks forward to Saturday mornings. Like the other members of the International Space Station's 3-person crew, he's busy most of the week doing research and building the ISS, where he's been living for the past three months.
    Australian Beach House For Sale
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    Boeing Introduces Lightweight, High Efficiency C-Band Amplifier
    Torrance - Mar 03, 2003
    Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices, Inc. (EDD), a business unit of The Boeing Company, has completed the development of a lightweight, high efficiency, C-Band traveling wave tube (TWT) for satellite downlink applications.

    Discovery May Counter Bioterrorists
    Fort Wayne - Mar 03, 2003
    A compound developed by British scientists early in World War II as a treatment against chemical weapons has value against today's threat of bioterrorism, according to Indiana University School of Medicine researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
    Is The Space Shuttle Critically Flawed
    Prague - Mar 3, 2003
    The Columbia inquiry is far from its final conclusion, but many questions have arisen about the safety of the Space Shuttle system. Even if the cause of the fatal accident is found directly in the Shuttle spacecraft itself, the root of its problem could be in the Shuttle's basic design philosophy which has a primary influence on safety and performance. This article discusses the main problems with the Shuttle's design and considers what alternatives were possible during the main system design.

    Nemesis Follows Hubris, DIY or Not
    Tokyo - Mar 3, 2003
    It was while rock-climbing one summer, high in the mountains of Southern California, that I had the most curious kind of epiphany: the kind you never want to have again.
    EMS Technologies To Study New Spacecraft Antennas for US MilSats
    Washington - Mar 03, 2003
    EMS Technologies, Inc. announced last week at Satellite 2003 that the company had been selected by the U.S. Air Force/MJPO to support the Communications-on-the-Move (COTM) Nulling Antenna Study Program.

    Remnants Of Ancient Stars In Earth's Upper Atmosphere
    Washington - Mar 3, 2003
    NASA researchers believe they have found bits of ancient stars in small particles gathered in the Earth's upper atmosphere. The researchers revealed their findings in a paper released today.

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