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Bush Eyes Return To Moon To Open Up The Road To Mars
 Washington (AFP) Jan 09, 2004
President George W. Bush is ready to announce new goals for the US space program next week, that could include manned missions to the Moon and beyond, Bush officials said Thursday.

It's Location Location Location Say Three Teams Searching Gusev For A Robot
Pasadena - Jan 8, 2004
24 hours after Mars Pathfinder landed in 1997, NASA had pinpointed its location. But even though Spirit landed nearly a week ago, scientists are still debating exactly where it is.
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Interview with Nathalie Cabrol
Pasadena - Sol 4-A, 2004
In this interview with Astrobiology Magazine's managing editor Henry Bortman, conducted just after NASA released the first high-resolution color picture of Gusev on January 6th, Nathalie Cabrol talks about her historic interest in the site and what stories she thinks Gusev Crater might have to tell about Mars.

There's History in Them Thar Hills
Pasadena - Sol 6-A, 2004
Although it will be several more days, perhaps as much as a week, before Spirit engineers certify that the rover is ready to leave the safety of its landing platform and go exploring, scientists have already begun to make a list of places they'd like to visit. A cluster of distant hills to the east are high on their list.


Adventures in Space With Tourism Pioneer Eric Anderson
Sydney - Jan 09, 2004
When Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist in 2001, he attracted a blaze of media attention and controversy. But the man who sent him there was arguably more embroiled in the drama of trailblazing this new industry than his first paying client. Eric Anderson is the President and CEO of Space Adventures, a US-based firm that has managed to launch two tourists into space, and plans to launch more in the future. A former employee of NASA, he recently spoke with SpaceDaily correspondent Dr Morris Jones about upcoming events in space tourism.

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Orbimage Officially Emerges From Chapter 11
Dulles - Jan 07, 2004
Orbimage Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation) announced Monday that it officially emerged from bankruptcy protection effective December 31, 2003. As previously announced, Orbimage's final plan of reorganization was confirmed on October 24, 2003 by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The company also officially changed its name to Orbimage Inc.
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In Wake Of Stardust Flyby, Hayabusa Aims For Asteroid Sample Return
Ithaca - Jan 07, 2004
The first two-way trip to an asteroid is underway. Launched May 8, 2003 from the Uchinoura Launch Center at Kagoshima on Kyushu Island, Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is on its way to intercept and collect samples from asteroid 25143 Itokawa.

Suns Of All Ages Possess Comets, Maybe Planets
Atlanta - Jan 07, 2004
In early 2003, Comet Kudo-Fujikawa (C/2002 X5) zipped past the Sun at a distance half that of Mercury's orbit. Astronomers Matthew Povich and John Raymond (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and colleagues studied Kudo-Fujikawa during its close passage. Today at the 203rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta, they announced that they observed the comet puffing out huge amounts of carbon, one of the key elements for life. The comet also emitted large amounts of water vapor as the Sun's heat baked its outer surface.

Lockheed Martin Gets Order For An A2100
Newtown - Jan 05, 2004
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to build an A2100 geosynchronous satellite, marking the fifth new commercial satellite order received by its Commercial Space Systems business during 2003.

El Nino-Related Fires Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Greenbelt - Jan 07, 2004
Year-to-year changes in concentration of carbon dioxide and methane, two important greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, can be linked to fire activity associated with the El Nino-La Nina cycle, according to a study conducted by a team of NASA scientists and other researchers.

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  • US Wants Taiwan To Bolster Intelligence Gathering: Jane's
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  • Movie Offers Insights In To Workings of Mysterious Microquasars
  • Japan, US Move Towards Cooperation On Fuel Cells
  • Delphi Unveils Mobile Satellite TV Antenna System at CES
  • First Integrated Silicon Circuit Built Using Nanotube Transistors
  • New Light-Emitting Transistor Could Revolutionize Electronics Industry
  • China welcomes NKorean nuclear freeze move, says gaps narrowing
  • Pakistan denies report alleging help to Libyan nuclear programme
  • EADS expects 20-percent gain in earnings this year
  • Poland offering to host major US military base: report
  • US weapons search team withdrawn from Iraq: report
  • El Nino-Related Fires Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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  • "Miracle" survivor pulled from Iran quake rubble: medics
  • UN expert urges safer housing standards following Iran quake
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  • Endurance Of Plants Under Quartz Points To Early Earth Life
  • The Calm After the Cometary Storm
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  • SMART-1 Finally Escapes the Radiation Belts
  • Orbimage Officially Emerges From Chapter 11
  • GlobalNet Launches Mobile Phone Service In Iraq
  • Westell Buys License For DirecTV's VoIP Broadband Tech
  • TiVo Files Patent Infringement Suit Against EchoStar
  • USAF Awards LockMart-Team Study For NextGen GPS
  • SkyBitz Gets $16M To Finance Motorola Truck Tracker Deal
  • Arianespace Maintains Pole Position In Civil Launch Market
  • ILS Closes Out 2003 with Six Launches, Eleven Orders
  • Iran To Launch Satellite With Own Rocket Within 18 Months
  • China To Launch 10 Satellites In "Pivotal Period" 2004
  • Delphi Unveils Mobile Satellite TV Antenna System at CES
  • Sony Develops Super-Capacity MD Format
  • New Light-Emitting Transistor Could Change Electronics
  • First IC Silicon Chip Built Using Nanotube Transistors
  • US Picks Firms To Develop Airline Missile Defense
  • Both Civil and Military Needs Driving European UAV Market
  • Musharraf Probing Nuke Claims, Hints At "Rogue" Scientists
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