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A Rusian cosmonaut and two American astronauts smade it safely back to Earth early Sunday despite landing hundreds of kilometres off target in Kazakhstan after a malfunction in their Russian Soyuz craft. Nikolai Budarin and his US crewmates Kenneth Bowersox and Donald Pettit, who had undocked from the Station on their Soyuz TMA earlier Sunday landed 440 kilometres from the preset destination, with recovery teams taking more than two hours to then locate them. |
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Explaining Thirty Years Of Fudge
Sacramento - May 02, 2003After decades of NASA officials and its congressional supporters asserting on the public record that the shuttle can do this and that for X amount of money, the whole sordid truth is starting to come out as veterans of the manned space program give evidence to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board about what really happened decades ago when the key decisions were made. MIT Lab Works To Mimic Spider Silk 
Boston - May 5, 2003As a fiber, spider silk is so desirable that scientists have spent decades trying to find a way to mimic it. A team at MIT has been tackling the problem from two directions. |
Klipsch Receives Grant To Analyze Communication Networks On Planetary Rovers
Las Cruces - May 5, 2003The Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University was recently awarded a three-year, $650,000 grant from the NASA Glenn Research Center. Designing A Digital Toolbox To Quickly Check Cognitive Function 
Houston - Apr 30, 2003A new computer software package, currently under development, will give the term "personal digital assistant" (PDA) a new meaning, helping users quickly and easily evaluate if they are operating at their mental best. |
DoE Awards $9 Million For Energy Related Genomic Research
Rockville - May 5, 2003Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced today that the department will increase its funding to the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA) for research to better understand microbial communities and to develop new, biological methods to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to produce hydrogen. Northrop Grumman's ICBM Program Achieves CMMI Level 3 
Clearfield - May 5, 2003Northrop Grumman Corporation's Prime ICBM integration program has received the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)* Level 3 rating. CMMI is the newest standard for benchmarking the commercial and defense industry's best practices for systems engineering. |
Arotech Battery Passes Testing With Dragon Eye Unmanned Drone
New York - May 5, 2003Arotech Corporation reports that a prototype zinc-air battery developed by its Electric Fuel subsidiary passed a milestone in testing a Marine Dragon Eye unmanned drone at Quantico Marine Corps Base, Virginia. Just Say No To Simple Answers 
Tokyo - Apr 28, 2003In a recent op-ed for "The Space Review" Clark Lindsey invokes an old formula -- the power of numbers -- with a new spin. It's so new, in fact, that he feels he has to wake us up to how ridiculous we are being. |
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