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Space Shuttle Safety Rules Hubble FateWashington DC (UPI) Jul 19, 2004 
The National Academy of Sciences' preliminary review of the Hubble Space Telescope repair issue has placed the question of space shuttle safety squarely at the center of the ongoing debate about the instrument's future, writes Frank Sietzen |
 
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Private Firms Step Up For Lunar Missions
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 19, 2004Thirty-five years after the first humans set foot on the moon, the United States is planning for return flights to the lunar surface. NASA's next group of moonwalkers, however, might not find the place quite as desolate as their Apollo brethren did. The Last 300 Feet To The Moon 
Edwards CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004After making the 240,000-mile journey to the moon cruising through open space, the last 300 feet down to landing represented the most difficult and dangerous part of the Apollo missions. |
The Big Dig
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004Researchers at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley are adapting the Earth observation instrument for potential use during future Mars missions in a search for water, ice, organics and minerals in the soil. The instrument previously flew over Hawaii in 1997 aboard a remotely piloted, solar-powered airplane, scanning vegetation and land. Razorback Mystery At Endurance Crater 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004While Opportunity descends the steep walls of Endurance Crater, it continues to add to its portfolio of evidence on martian water history. One current mystery entails pointed rocks lined up. |
New LITENING Targeting System To Be Deployed
Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Jul 20, 2004The US Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command have expanded their operational capabilities through the advanced targeting systems offered by Northrop Grumman. Large Aircraft Countermeasures Program Completes First Tests
Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Jul 20, 2004A full year ahead of schedule, a US Air Force-led team has entered initial operational test and evaluation of Northrop Grumman Corporation's Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) system on Air Force C-17 and C-130 transport aircraft. |
NASA To Decommission Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2004NASA will decommission the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) later this year. A highly successful scientific research mission, TRMM has provided data used worldwide in the monitoring and forecasting of hazardous weather on a demonstration basis. Analysis: US 'In Line Of Fire' In China-Taiwan War 
Washington (UPI) Jul 19, 2004The ingredients for a confrontation between China and Taiwan are growing and the United States' mediation is a precarious lid on the pressure pot of rising East Asian tensions. |
Europe Approves First Phase Of Aurora Space Exploration Program
Paris (ESA) Jul 20, 2004At the last meeting of the Aurora Board of Participants, held at ESA's Paris headquarters on Thursday 8 July, the participating states approved the Preparatory Phase of the European Space Exploration Programme. Global Opportunities For Missile Defense 
Berlin (SPX) Jul 19, 2004An unprecedented opportunity now exists for the international community to participate in the development of a global, collective missile-defense system, Northrop Grumman CEO Ronald Sugar said here today at the International Missile Defense Symposium hosted by the US Missile Defense Agency and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). |
Moonrise: The Next Frontiers
by Astrobiology MagazineMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004 NASA today announced the selection of two proposals for detailed study as candidates for the next mission in the agency's New Frontiers Program. StuntShipOne: The GeeBee Of Outer Space 
Honolulu HI (SPX) Jul 20, 2004The flight of Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne has unleashed yet another wave of wishful thinking by the alt.space community. The same people who enthused over DC-X, X-33, and Rotary Rocket are at it again, filling cyberspace with claims that SS1 is the first successful private spaceship and will usher in the long-awaited age of private, profit-making space travel, writes Jeffrey F. Bell. |
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