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Building More Resilient Rockets
Huntsville - Apr 14, 2004Once humans return to the Moon and begin "living and working there for increasingly extended periods of time," as outlined in the new Vision for Space Exploration, increasingly frequent trips between the Earth and the Moon will be necessary to ferry people and supplies. Cash Prize Fuels Private Space Race Cape Canaveral (UPI) April 12, 2004 
A California aircraft design company has taken its latest creation into the skies over the Mojave Desert for a milestone test flight a week after securing the U.S. government's first license to fly a reusable suborbital piloted spaceship. |
Spirit Reboots With New Software
Pasadena - Apr 14, 2004On Sol 98, which ended at 10:36 p.m. PST on April 12, Spirit woke up to the song "Where Is My Mind?" by The Pixies in honor of its software transplant. The good news is that Spirit's "mind" is updated and operating as expected. Controllers gave the go to reboot the rover's computer, which would then run the new software during the morning of sol 98. Scientists To Develop Organic Analyzer To Find Life On Mars 
Berkeley CA - Apr 13, 2004The same cutting-edge technology that speeded sequencing of the human genome could, by the end of the decade, tell us once and for all whether life ever existed on Mars, says a Berkeley chemist. |
NASA, U.S. Coast Guard Partner To Track, Protect Aircraft Parts
Huntsville - Apr 14, 2004NASA and the U.S. Coast Guard are teaming to apply an innovative NASA identification system to flight safety-critical aircraft parts - helping the Coast Guard track its property on land and sea, and providing insurance against the use of unauthorized replacement parts. Decoding A Sulfate-Breathing Bug 
Rockville MD - Apr 14, 2004Paving the way for better methods to protect pipelines and remediate metallic pollutants, scientists have sequenced the genome of a sulfate-breathing bacterium that can damage oil and natural gas pipelines and corrode oilfield equipment. CapRock and ViaSat Form Alliance to Deliver Global Service 
Houston - Apr 13, 2004CapRock Communications and ViaSat Inc. have formed a global alliance that supports CapRock's continuing initiative to supply its customers with reliable, flexible and feature-rich satellite communications services. |
Better Techniques Needed To Predict Earthquake Hazards
San Francisco - Apr 13, 2004Current methods for estimating the ground-shaking effects of major earthquakes could underestimate their severity and lead to inadequate seismic protection of new and existing buildings, according to a pioneering study of earthquake hazards at Riverside, San Diego and Santa Barbara. China To Launch Space Solar Telescope 
Beijing - Apr 13, 2004Chinese scientists plan to launch China's first space solar telescope into orbit during the period from 2006 to 2010. JWST Testing On Horizon 
Cleveland - Apr 13, 2004Glenn engineers are gearing up the Space Power Facility (SPF) at Plum Brook to meet a challenging schedule of testing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It is a new kind of space telescope with a very large, infrared-optimized, primary mirror that will capture more light and resolve more distant objects than any other space-based telescope designed thus far. |
Siberia, The Big Bang of Life?
Gainesville FL - Apr 13, 2004Trilobites, the primitive shelled creatures considered by many to be among the first animals to appear in the fossil record, may have originated in a place known today largely for its barren lifelessness: Siberia. |
New Method To Date Ancient Artifacts
Irvine CA - Apr 13, 2004A UC Irvine archaeological scientist has created a new method for determining the approximate age of many artifacts between 50,000 to 100,000 years old � a period for which other dating methods are less effective. |
X-45A Demonstrator Drops Inert Bomb
Edwards AFB - Apr 13, 2004The Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems program has conducted the first test of an inert bomb from a high-speed, high-performance, unmanned aircraft with a stealthy shape. Space Imaging Completes Marion County Asset Management Project 
Denver - Apr 14, 2004Space Imaging has completed a comprehensive asset management system (AMS) for the Marion County, Florida Engineering department valued at $2.8 million. Rare South Atlantic Tropical Cyclone 
Greenbelt - Apr 13, 2004During its daytime overpass of the southeast coast of Brazil on March 26, 2004, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra satellite captured this surprising sight: a tropical cyclone. A Black Box for People 
Huntsville - Apr 13, 2004When planes have a problem, analysts can usually figure out what went wrong. They simply check the plane's "black box," which records exactly what was happening to the plane at the time. Turning Robots Into A Well-Oiled Machine 
Arlington VA - Apr 13, 2004Humans are social creatures, but robots, for the most part, are not. To help emergency response personnel in the trenches, a team of researchers is writing the playbook to turn a group of robots into a single well-oiled machine. Can SETI Probe for Probes? 
Moffett Field - Apr 13, 2004When NASA's Voyager spacecraft left the boundaries our solar system last year, it carried a golden record with greetings from our civilization for posterity--or for eventual discovery by space archaeologists from another civilization. 
China Selects Long March 3AFor First Lunar Probe Beijing - Apr 13, 2004 China will use an improved Long March 3A carrier rocket to launch its first lunar probe in 2007. |
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