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Moscow (AFP) Mar 17, 2003 
Russian and United States space experts will discuss financing further development of the Space Station at a meeting on Sunday, the Russian space agency said. The talks, to be held in Holland, would also cover problems of constructing supply spaceships and manned craft, a spokesman was quoted as saying by Ria Novosti news agency. The US is relying on Russia to transport crew to and from the ISS orbiting space station because NASA has suspended flights by its space shuttles following the explosion of the Columbia on February 1. |
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Delta IV Launch Success Ushers in Record Year for Ecliptic's RocketCam
Pasadena - Mar 17, 2003The successful launch of Boeing's Delta IV rocket last Monday involved a record four RocketCam onboard imaging systems for capturing dramatic views of liftoff, first stage separation, second stage nozzle extension and operation, payload fairing separation, spacecraft spin-up and finally, spacecraft separation. Ice Covers the Great Lakes 
Toronto - Mar 17, 2003With spring just a few weeks away, the North American Great Lakes are still locked in winter. This image from March 9, 2003, shows ice almost completely covering several lakes, including the largest lake -- Lake Superior, at upper left. |
British Schools Are Using Satellites
London (ESA) Mar 17, 2003Now more than 1000 schools have signed up to the broadband educational content provider Espresso Broadband Ltd. The company uses satellite technology to deliver content for both pupils and teachers across England and Wales. Diamond Sharp Chip Sensor "Sniffs Out" Dangerous Bio Agents 
Washington - Mar 17, 2003Diamond film may enable new bio-terror sensors In these tense times, the ability to continuously "sniff out" and detect dangerous biological agents anywhere, anytime is obviously in very high demand � for our troops on the battlefield, in our airports, at our ports, subways, stadiums, and any other space where large numbers of people gather. |
Good Things, Small Packages
Binghamton - Mar 17, 2003Imagine a diagnostic "pill" that doctors can navigate through your system to collect video and chemical data about what's going on in your body. Or how about a space age, two-ply, self-assembling organic-inorganic thin film that makes expensive mirrors and lenses such as those used by NASA virtually indestructible. SNAPing Out Small, Perfect, Dense Nanowire Lattices 
Santa Barbara - Mar 17, 2003Researchers participating in the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at Los Angeles (UCLA) have invented a new technique for producing "Ultra High Density Nanowire Lattices and Circuits. |
Preaching Settlement
Scottsdale - Mar 17, 2003There is a way to change the space agenda now, while we hold the world's attention in the wake of Columbia's loss. The lever for that change is not a new hardware program, legislative package or business plan. Rather, it is a clear, comprehensible goal explained in simple and compelling language at every opportunity. That goal is the opening of space to human habitation and settlement. |
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