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YESTERDAY'S SPACE
MARSDAILY MOONDAILY SPACEMART SPACEWAR SPACE TRAVEL TERRADAILY DRAGON SPACE ASTRONAUTIX EMAIL US /ABOUT US AD RATES SPACEDAILY FORUMS |
 SpaceShipOne Rockets To Mach 1.2
To mark the 100th year of powered flight X Prize entrant Scaled Composites used the occassion to fire up the company's experimental SpaceShipOne and rocket to Mach 1.2 (930 MPH) in a fully powered flight that reached 60,000 feet and tested multiple on board systems. |
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Space Adventures Signs Two For Soyuz Taxi With Option On Two More Seats
Arlington - Dec 18, 2003On the centennial anniversary of flight, Space Adventures, Ltd. Announced today that the company has secured two additional seats on the Soyuz TMA spacecraft to transport tourists to the International Space Station (ISS). The new agreement provides Space Adventures with the sole rights to transport the next four private space explorers between 2004 and 2007. The Golden Age vs. The Goldin Age 
Honolulu, 17 Dec. 2003"The Myth of NASA's Golden Age" writes Jeffrey F. Bell is that the old NASA of the 1960s performed miraculous feats of technical development and project management. Whereas the new NASA of the 1990s has utterly failed at these tasks. To fix spaceflight, we need to transform NASA back to the way it was in the 1960s by giving it more money, a younger staff, and a definite goal to shoot for. |
An Odyssey Of Mars Science: Part 1
Sacramento - Dec 18, 2003This year's meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences -- the Solar System-related branch of the American Astronomical Society provided the most detailed reports yet on Martian science using data from the Odyssey and Surveyor missions. SpaceDaily's Bruce Moomaw attended the 2004 DPS meeting and in a series of reports over coming weeks Moomaw will provide readers with an overview of the latest science from Mars. Take A Christmas Break On Mars 
Huntsville - Dec 18, 2003It's wintertime in the northern hemisphere of Mars, and a flying saucer is about to land. Back on Earth where it comes from, the craft is known as the Beagle 2, sent to Mars by the European Space Agency in search of life. More accurately, the Beagle 2 will be looking for chemical traces of life--telltale signs that life once existed, or perhaps, exists right now on the red planet. |
Navigating A Comet Traverse Is Wild
Pasadena - Dec 18, 2003Imagine driving through heavy fog to a place you've never been, guided only by a faint taillight in the distance. The challenge is similar to one NASA will take in January 2004 by flying its Stardust mission through the halo of dust that surrounds the nucleus of a comet. Double Impact Crater Site Found In Libya Using JERS-1 Data 
Floirac - Dec 18, 2003Impact cratering is now recognized as a major geological process on Earth. In particular, giant impacts had a fundamental influence on the geological and biological evolution of our planet with possible climatic effects. |
First Detection Of CO In Uranus
Paris - Dec 18, 2003A team from Paris Observatory, led by Th�r�se Encrenaz (LESIA), has just detected for the first time the molecule of carbon monoxide (CO) in the atmosphere of Uranus. The origin of this molecule is probably external to the planet, for example due to micrometeorites. Einstein Makes Extra Dimensions Toe The Line In Time 
Greenbelt - Dec 17, 2003Scientists say Albert Einstein's principle of the constancy of the speed of light holds up under extremely tight scrutiny, a finding that rules out certain theories predicting extra dimensions and a "frothy" fabric of space. |
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Galileo's Implementation Set to Boost European GPS Applications Markets
Paris - Dec 18, 2003Galileo, Europe's Global Navigation Satellite System, is creating a buzz in the GPS applications market. With its advantages of signal reliability and integrity, it is poised to drive European GPS applications markets. |
European Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Market Growing Rapidly
London - Dec 18, 2003The latest study from Frost & Sullivan reveals that due to recent military developments and the United States' use of UAVs the global market for unmanned aerial vehicles is expanding and accelerating the development of such specialized weapons in Europe. |
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