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Columbia's Secrets Are Reel Enough
Sacramento - Apr 16, 2003

but will the public even care
The pieces of the puzzle of Columbia's fatal accident are starting to come together with dramatic speed writes Bruce Moomaw in SpaceDaily's latest detailed round up of the official investigation to date, and the developing storm behind the scenes that may yet engulf NASA's human spaceflight program and leave the Space Station a $100 billion white elephant.
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Carbon NanoTubes Could Wire Tomorrow's Chips
Moffett Field - Apr 15, 2003
The life of the silicon chip industry may last 10 or more years longer, thanks to a new manufacturing process developed by NASA scientists. The novel method, announced in the April 14 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, includes use of extremely tiny carbon 'nanotubes' instead of copper conductors to interconnect parts within integrated circuits.

Glass From Space
Huntsville - Apr 15, 2003
It's easy: mix together some materials like sand, limestone and soda. Heat them above 2000o F. Then cool the incandescent liquid carefully so that crystals cannot form. That's how you make glass.

Boeing Wins Contracts For Advanced Electric Propulsion Technology
St Louis - Apr 15, 2003
Boeing has been awarded three new contracts under NASA's In-Space Propulsion Technologies program for the development of advanced xenon ion propulsion technologies.
Proliferation And The Nuclear Space Age
Brisbane - Apr 14, 2003
Now the nuclear club is growing towards double figures although many of its new members aren't "officially" recognised. Many nations leaders are unhappy about the way some other countries have the bomb and they don't. Even those in as close proximity to the US as Mexico have expressed grievances over this issue. It is believed that more than a couple of countries are taking matters into their own hands by developing nuclear weapons arsenals secretly.

Airborne Surveillance And Reconnaissance Markets In Europe
New York - Apr 15, 2003
The ongoing war in Iraq, the nature of modern conflict and the threat of global terrorism have once again underlined the need for superior military intelligence gathering and time-critical information.

Futron Reviews Our Orbital ASCENT
Bethesda - Apr 14, 2003
Futron has recently completed a groundbreaking study of existing and emerging space markets. The study, commissioned by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) as part of the Space Launch Initiative, was dubbed the ASCENT Study, which stands for Analysis of Space Concepts Enabled by New Transportation.
CWRU Grad Student To Launch Satellite Prototype
Cleveland - Apr 14, 2003
Christopher Fennig hails from Holly Pines Christmas Tree Farm outside Bryant, Ind. Like Homer Hickman Jr., the coal miner's son whose story was told in the movie, "October Sky," Fennig looks to space for his future.

Space Imaging Establishes New Brazilian Sales Channel
Denver - Apr 11, 2003
Space Imaging has restructured its regional sales channel in Brazil, signing contracts with four Brazilian companies - Engesat, GisPlan, Infostrata and Threetek.

Is Travel Through a Black Hole Possible
 Washington - Apr 11, 2003
Spaceship travel to another universe through a black hole may be highly improbable, but it cannot be ruled out, according to a new analysis that explores the idea of "hybrid singularity."

Launch Of NASA's Infrared Telescope Postponed
 Washington (AFP) Apr 14, 2003
NASA on Monday postponed to late April the launch of its new infrared space telescope. SIRTF will now be launched Apr 27 aboard a Delta 2 from Cape Canaveral at 4:25 a.m. (0825 GMT), lauch was originally scheduled for Friday.

Loral Launches Skyreach Your Global IP-Based Solution
Bedminster - Apr 11, 2003
Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications has introduced SkyReach, a group of Internet protocol (IP)-based services that provide secure private networks and high-speed Internet access using Skynet's established global infrastructure.

Fifty Arctic Lakes Show Dramatic Effects Of Climate Warming
Kingston - Apr 14, 2003
Dramatic clues to North American climate change have been discovered by a team of Queen's University scientists in the bottom of 50 Arctic lakes. Using innovative techniques that enable them to collect historic evidence from fossilized algae in lake bottom sediment, the researchers have found signs of marked environmental changes in a variety of lakes of different depths and composition, within a 750-km region bordering the northern tree-line.

First LIGO Scientific Results
Pasadena - Apr 14, 2003
With two controlling partners, MIT and Caltech, and two branch offices (two completely independent detectors) located in Washington State and Louisiana, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is essentially a giant strain gauge.

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