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AmEx Adds Space Adventures Tours To Rewards Program
New York - Mar 08, 2004American Express has announced that Cardmembers enrolled in its Membership Rewards program can now redeem points with Space Adventures Ltd., the world's leading space flight experiences and space tourism company. |
A World Ruled By Fungi
Stockholm - Mar 08, 2004The catastrophe that extinguished the dinosaurs and other animal species, 65 million years ago also brought dramatic changes to the vegetation, with a new study a world in darkness where fungi fuled. |
The Art Of Deep Space
Baltimore - Mar 08, 2004"Starry Night", Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night sky. Although this image of the heavens came only from the artist's restless imagination, a new picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope bears remarkable similarities to the van Gogh work, complete with never-before-seen spirals of dust swirling across trillions of kilometres of interstellar space. Will The World Just Chill Out 
Huntsville - Mar 08, 2004Global warming could plunge North America and Western Europe into a deep freeze, possibly within only a few decades. That's the paradoxical scenario gaining credibility among many climate scientists. LANDSAT EO Bird Snaps 29 Million Images After 20 On Orbit 
Greenbelt - Mar 08, 2004The first of March marked the 20th anniversary of operations of the NASA/USGS 'workhorse' satellite, Landsat 5. Landsat 5, launched on March 1, 1984, continues to provide important observations of the landmass of the planet and has established a record for reliability in the civilian space fleet. |
Pentagon Plans Major Weapons Trade-Offs
by Pamela HessUPI Pentagon correspondent Washington (UPI) - Mar 05, 2004 The Pentagon is changing the way it does business, again. But this time they mean it. Senior defense officials Friday unveiled a new process for determining military strategy and investment priorities, a complicated and bureaucratic process that -- if carried out to the full extent -- could bust so-called sacred cows all over the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. Air Force Leader Discusses U.S. Space Program 
Washington - Mar 08, 2004The executive agent for space testified before the House Armed Services Committee subcommittee on strategic forces Feb. 25 on the status of America's space program. The Rising Prospect Of Japan Remilitarization 
Tokyo (UPI) - Mar 05, 2004From giant department stores to main airports, there were little signs of public security jitters in this Tokyo metropolitan city with a population of more than 12 million. Reflecting a fledgling recovery of the local economy, shopping malls in Shibuya central Tokyo were packed with consumers. |
Aerosonde UAV Completes First Operational Flights At NASA Wallops
Wallops Island - Mar 08, 2004A small, unmanned airplane recently conducted flights along the Virginia coast showing its capability to support NASA science missions. NASA and Aerosonde North America, Inc., conducted several flights of the Aerosonde unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) February 20 through 27. Navy Awards General Dynamics $149.4M Contract Modification for SSGN Work 
Groton - Mar 04, 2004The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $145.6 million contract modification to convert the USS Florida (SSBN-728) from a Trident ballistic-missile submarine to a Trident SSGN, a multimission submarine optimized for tactical strike and special-operations support. |
Littering Mars But Who's There To Complain
Pasadena - Mar 08, 2004Like a rabbit in a hat, the identity of an oddity that looks like "bunny ears" in a picture from Mars has eluded the science and engineering teams. The public, also fascinated with the mysterious object, has asked in a slew of e-mails: What is it? Volcanic Rock In Mars' Gusev Crater Hints At Past Water 
Pasadena - Mar 05, 2004NASA's Spirit has found hints of a water history in a rock at Mars' Gusev Crater, but it is a very different type of rock than those in which NASA's Opportunity found clues to a wet past on the opposite side of the planet. |
International Rectifier Offers OTS Rad-hard DC-DC Converters For LEO And Launch
El Segundo - Mar 04, 2004International Rectifier, IR introduced the AMA Series (5W), AMF Series (12W), and AMR Series (30W) radiation-tolerant, high-reliability (hi-rel) DC-DC converters designed for extended operation in moderate radiation environments. A New Branch Of Primitive Humans Reported Found In Ethiopia 
Cleveland - Mar 05, 2004Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, member of a scientific team working in the Middle Awash valley of the Afar Region in Ethiopia, and his colleagues have found dental evidence that elevates the hominid subspecies Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba to its own species, Ardipithecus kadabba. This new species, dating between 5.54 and 5.77 million years old, is the oldest member of the genus Ardipithecus. Telesat Named Best Regional Satellite Operator By Frost & Sullivan 
Washington - Mar 04, 2004Telesat, the world's longest-standing commercial satellite operator, announced today that it is the recipient of the prestigious 2004 Frost & Sullivan Regional Satellite Operator Award. Fuel Cell Reaches Milestone 
Fairbanks - Mar 04, 2004A five-kilowatt solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) undergoing testing in Fairbanks has reached the 5,000-hour milestone since its start-up eight months ago. During each hour of operation the fuel cell produces approximately four kilowatts of electricity totaling 20,000 kilowatt hours for the duration, enough to power two average houses for a full year. Mitsubishi Electric Seals Solar Panel Contract With 
Tokyo - Mar 04, 2004Agreement on a multi-million euro contract for the supply of solar array panels was reached between Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Alcatel Space on February 17th, 2004. |
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