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Sailing With Columbus Was Never Safe
Sacramento - Apr 23, 2003

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe
The ability to resume building and operating the Space Station is absolutely crucial to the future of NASA writes Bruce Moomaw. For NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe this means the Agency must return the Shuttle to flight operations as quickly and safely as possible.
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Reaching For The Asteroids
Armagh - Apr 22, 2003
Humans hopping over the surface of asteroids. Extraction of minerals from Earth-grazing chunks of rock. Sounds like science fiction, but scientists are already looking ahead and trying to identify the nearest objects whose resources may be exploited by future entrepreneurs.

Ulster's Bronze-Age Monuments Linked Builders With The Cosmos
Leicester - Apr 22, 2003
A unique and enigmatic group of prehistoric stone monuments in mid-Ulster is helping archaeoastronomers learn more about the meaning and significance of astronomy in prehistoric Ireland and Britain.
Technion-CERN Scientists Predict Supernova
Geneva - Apr 22, 2003
A team of theoretical physicists, Shlomo Dado and Arnon Dar at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and Alvaro De Rujula CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, has developed a theory to account for the mysterious gamma ray bursts that come from the depths of the Universe.

Imaging The Invisible: A New Look At Space Weather
Washington - Apr 22, 2003
How is it possible to image tiny particles that are normally invisible? What happens to our planet and its surroundings when huge solar storms collide with Earth's magnetic shield? These are just some of the questions that were addressed during the UK/Ireland National Astronomy Meeting in Dublin.
Black Water Turns The Tide On Florida Coral
Greenbelt - Apr 22, 2003
In early 2002, a patch of "black water" spanning over 60 miles in diameter formed off southwestern Florida and contributed to severe coral reef stress and death in the Florida Keys, according to results published from research funded by NASA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The "black water" contained a high abundance of toxic and non-toxic microscopic plants.
Beyond Columbia
Sacramento - Apr 22, 2003
It's very hard to foresee just how far and how sweeping the recommendations for change ultimately produced by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board will go, writes Bruce Moomaw.
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Safer Navigation Means More Helicopters Saving Lives
Paris (ESA) Apr 22, 2003
Although most modern helicopters have Instrumental Flight Rules (IFR) capability this is not used because IFR are not adapted to helicopter flight characteristics. As a result almost all medical operations are still performed under Visual Flight Rules (VFR). When visibility is reduced, as in bad weather, the use of VFR creates a risk factor in helicopter medical operations.

Nanotechnology for Space Applications
Duesseldorf - Apr 22, 2003
Ever more fastidious missions for the scientific investigation of space as well as the increasing use of satellite-based services require the development of more efficient, more economical and more resistant space technologies and systems in the future.
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