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Space Race Heats UpCape Canaveral FL (UPI) Jul 20, 2004 
Mike Melvill's excursion to the edge of space aboard a privately developed rocket already may have accomplished the primary goal of a new-age space race by showing that governments are not the only entities that can transport people off the planet. |
 
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What Neil & Buzz Left On The Moon
College Park MD (SPX) Jul 21, 2004Millions of people have seen pictures of it, and one day, years from now, lunar tourists will flock to the Sea of Tranquility to see it in person. Peering over the rails .. "hey, mom, is that the first one?" SpaceDev To Design Lunar Dish Observatory Mission 
Poway CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2004SpaceDev has been awarded a small contract by Lunar Enterprise Corporation of California for the next phase in designing a mission and spacecraft for a lunar lander program. |
New Martian Meteorite Found In Antarctica
Antarctica (SPX) Jul 21, 2004While rovers and orbiting spacecraft scour Mars searching for clues to its past, researchers have uncovered another piece of the red planet in the most inhospitable place on Earth - Antarctica. Opportunity Multi-Tasks on the Slopes of Endurance Crater 
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 21, 2004Sol 166's tasks for Spirit included imaging of possible traverse paths inside "Endurance Crater," then the start of a long period of data collection by the M�ssbauer spectrometer on a target called "Dahlia." All went as planned. |
Boeing Projects $5.4 Trillion Market For New Airplanes And Services
Farnborough UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2004Boeing sees a $5.4 trillion market for new commercial airplanes and aviation services during the next 20 years, which will bring about a doubling of the world's airplane fleet by 2023 and accommodate a forecasted 5.2 percent annual increase in world air travel. New Alliance Formed To Target Tactical, Long-Endurance UAV Market 
Farnborough UK (SPX) Jul 19, 2004Northrop Grumman and Aurora Flight Sciences have announced a collaborative agreement to design, develop and produce tactical, long-endurance UAV systems based on UAVs from Israel Aircraft Industries. |
Space Shuttle Safety Rules Hubble Fate Washington 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 SietzenGallup Survey Shows Americans Support New Plan For Space Exploration 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 20, 2004NASA and the US space program enjoy broad support and interest from the American public, according to the results of a new Gallup survey coordinated by the Space Foundation and sponsored by the Coalition for Space Exploration. |
Analysis UC's Los Alamos Contract At Stake
Washington (UPI) Jul 19, 2004The latest revelations of missing files and mishandled e-mail messages may further jeopardize the University of California's chances of retaining its longtime administrative contract at the famed Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico. Dark Energy, Inflation, & Neutrino Mass 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 21, 2004Using observations of 3,000 quasars discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), scientists have made the most precise measurement to date of the cosmic clustering of diffuse hydrogen gas. |
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. |
Galileo Moves Forward
Paris (ESA) Jul 20, 2004The GalileoSat development and in-orbit validation phase is well under way and the European Space Agency (ESA) has just released its procurement process to Industry indicating that the first completely civil satellite navigation system is moving forward. Latest GPS Satellite Enters Global Service 
Farnborough (SPX) Jul 21, 2004Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have completed on-orbit checkout of the upgraded Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite launched successfully June 23 from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe. |
Lab-On-a-Chip: Sampling Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004Using a biodetection method called Raman spectroscopy, scientists may be able to look for proteins and amino acids in a miniaturized instrment about the size of a credit card. The small scale of the test has earned the name, 'lab-on-a-chip'. NIST Standard Adopted For Across-The-Road Radar 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jul 16, 2004Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new performance standard for "across-the-road" radar speed-measuring device systems to help law enforcement agencies to purchase and use with confidence this relatively new method for catching speeders. |
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