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The Bush Space Initiative: Fiscal Nightmare or.. Fiscal Nightmare?
Honolulu - Mar 17, 2004The new space initiative announced by President Bush has the odd distinction of being criticized both for costing too much and costing too little. Many commentators have denounced Plan Bush an insanely grandiose program that will waste $1 trillion dollars of tax money writes Jeffrey F. Bell. Outsourcing ESA's Corporate Information System Infrastructure 
Paris - Mar 16, 2004The European Space Agency plans to outsource its entire corporate information system infrastructure services under a single Prime contractor. |
Surrey Successfully Demonstrates Steam Micro-Propulsion In-Orbit
Guildford - Mar 17, 2004SSTL has demonstrated in-orbit the use of a steam propulsion system onboard the UK-DMC satellite, launched on 27th September 2003. The novel micro-propulsion experiment used 2.06 grams of water as propellant. The miniature resistojet, weighing 13 grams, uses just 3 watts to heat the propellant. China Plans Shenzhou Modifications 
Beijing (UPI) Mar 16, 2004China announced Tuesday its second manned space flight will be launched with a Long March II F rocket, which also powered its first manned spacecraft. |
A little planet's big impact
Washington (UPI) March 16, 2004Back in 1930, when Clyde W. Tombaugh peered through the telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and discovered the planet that eventually was named Pluto, our solar system, our galaxy and our universe were much, much simpler places. Probing Europa Ice Will Take A New Class Of Plantary Exploration Tools 
Bremerhaven (UPI) March 15, 2004Researchers in Germany are testing a probe that could melt through Europa's ice sheet to analyze the water below for microbial life. The prototype, based on a design pioneered by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, is a 90-inch-long hollow aluminum cylinder with a copper melting head powered by an electrical cable. |
Martian Moons Block Sun In Unique Eclipse Images From Another Planet
Pasadena - Mar 17, 2004This image shows the transit of Mars' moon Phobos across the Sun. The images were taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the morning of the 45th martian day, or sol, of its mission. This observation will help refine our knowledge of the orbit and position of Phobos. DNA Tests Refutes Neanderthal Ancestry Theory For Modern Humans 
Leipzig (UPI) March 16, 2004DNA analysis by researchers across Europe have yielded the best evidence yet Neanderthals made no significant genetic contributions to modern humans. |
Clues To Life In The Mines Of Murgul
Moffett Field - Mar 16, 2004The Mine of Murgul sounds like an ominous place in "The Lord of the Rings," a dark cavern filled with menacing orcs and trolls. But, in fact, this copper mine in Turkey may help shed light on life's origin. Reflections On Life..In The Jungle 
Edwards - Mar 16, 2004Brilliantly colored strawberry poison dart frogs singing in the jungle below didn't notice the NASA DC-8 flying laboratory passing overhead. After all, there is little disturbance to the rain forest by an aircraft far above. |
Iraq Strains U.S. High Tech Army
Washington (UPI) March 16, 2004A year after the United States conquered Iraq with minimal casualties in a three week blitzkrieg, it remains bogged down there facing a guerilla war that has already killed more GIs than three weeks of combat did, with far worse in sight. 32 killed in hunt for Taliban, al-Qaida 
Peshawar (UPI) March 16, 2004Eight Pakistani troops and 24 others died Tuesday in the hunt for the Taliban and al-Qaida fugitives near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said Tuesday. |
Iraqi People Glad Saddam Is Gone
Baghdad (UPI) March 16, 2004The Bush administration and supporters of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq were heartened by new polling figures conducted by several major media organizations in Iraq that show 70 percent of Iraqis saying their life is good under occupation. Conducted by ABC News, BBC and two other international networks surveryed 2,500 Iraqis over the course of three weeks in February. The survey found that 54.6 percent said they were better off with the removal of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party regime. |
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Delving Into Defects Spurs Prospects For Chip Insulator
Washington - Mar 16, 2004A warm winter coat doesn't work nearly as well if it's full of holes. The same is true for hafnium oxide, a promising insulator for the next generation of smaller, faster microchips. New MRI Tech Enables Remote Sensing 
Berkeley - Mar 16, 2004Alexander Pines and his colleagues have discovered a remarkable new way to improve the versatility and sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the technology upon which it is based, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Humidity: A Relative Experience 
Greenbelt - Mar 16, 2004A NASA-funded study found some climate models might be overestimating the amount of water vapor entering the atmosphere as the Earth warms. Since water vapor is the most important heat-trapping greenhouse gas in our atmosphere, some climate forecasts may be overestimating future temperature increases. US To Deploy Unmanned Drones In Skies Over Mexican Border 
Washington (AFP) - Mar 17, 2004The United States plans to deploy unmanned planes, or drones, into the skies over the border between Arizona and Mexico to guard against potential terrorist activities and clamp down on illegal border crossings, a top US security official said. India, US spat on outsourcing grows 
New Delhi (UPI) March 17, 2004If U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's agenda did not include brokering peace between India and Pakistan during his current visit to the subcontinent, he was busy resolving another war -- an economic one caused by thousands of Americans losing their jobs to Indians by way of outsourcing. |
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