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Tokyo (AFP) May 09, 2003 
A Japanese spacecraft blasted off Friday on an ambitious four-and-a-half-year journey to bring asteroid samples back to Earth for the first time. The mid-size solid-fuel M-5 rocket, carrying an unmanned MUSES-C probe, lifted off from the Kagoshima Space Centre in the southern Japanese town of Uchinoura at 1:29 pm (0429 GMT) as scheduled. |
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San Diego - May 09, 2003Scripps Professor Revisits the Miller Experiment and the Origin of Life Fiftieth anniversary of famous experiment commemorated with June 10 public symposium In the fall of 1952, Stanley Miller, now a chemistry professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, began simulating primitive earthly conditions to reproduce the basic building blocks of life. Without Enzyme Catalyst, Slowest Known Biological Reaction Takes 1 Trillion Years 
Chapel Hill - May 07, 2003All biological reactions within human cells depend on enzymes. Their power as catalysts enables biological reactions to occur usually in milliseconds. But how slowly would these reactions proceed spontaneously, in the absence of enzymes - minutes, hours, days? And why even pose the question? |
Building America's Next Passenger Spaceship Sacramento - May 08, 2003 
Regardless of how America decides to finish the Space Station and maintain it through 2018, the big question remains as to what we should do next in manned spaceflight. If the Orbital Space Plane is to replace the Shuttle as the primary mode for orbital access then the question will be faced soon as pressure increases to build a back up to the ShuttleEarthquake Alarm System May Ease Risk For Southern Californians 
Madison - May 07, 2003Capitalizing on the low-energy waves that invariably precede major earthquakes, scientists have designed and demonstrated the feasibility of an early-warning system that promises southern Californians as much as 40 seconds of advanced notice of major temblors. |
Evaluation Of Composite High-Speed Vessels Continues
Pascagoula - May 09, 2003The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation's Ship Systems sector a contract to evaluate the performance of composite structures in high-speed vessel hull forms and displacements. The return on investment for the Navy is reduced life cycle costs from lowered maintenance, reduced weight and improved stealth characteristics. Mapping The Greenland Ice Sheets 
Wallops Island - May 09, 2003The ice sheet covering Greenland is expansive. Beyond the northern reaches of the Atlantic Ocean, Greenland is the largest island in the world and has the second largest mass of frozen fresh water on Earth. The ice and snow, covering 85 percent of the island, may provide important clues on global climate change. El Nino's Soggy Secret 
Washington - May 09, 2003Researchers have discovered how El Nino moves rainfall around the globe and are calling it El Nino's soggy secret. They did so by identifying rainfall patterns in the Pacific Ocean during the life of these periodic climate events, during which waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean warm up. |
AeroAstro Teams With Dutch Firm To Develop Remote Sensing Stations
Ashburn - May 09, 2003AeroAstro and van Kempen Engineering have signed a teaming agreement for the development of ground stations in support of microsatellite Earth observing systems. This agreement adds an important capability to the AeroAstro-led "Observatory Team," providing customers with cost-effective turn-key solutions for Earth remote sensing. NASA Should Buy New Space Vehicles, Not Build Them 
Los Angeles - May 09, 2003Challenging testimony by NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, the Space Frontier Foundation called on NASA to transform itself into a customer for private enterprise, rather than a competitor. O'Keefe told the Senate subcommittee overseeing NASA's budget, "We will pursue activities unique to our mission -- if NASA does not do them, they will not get done. If others are doing them, we should question why NASA is involved." |
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