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Space Race II Bangs, Bumps And Drops
Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Aug 17, 2004The birth of the space age was not an easy delivery. US and Russian archives are filled with stories, pictures and grainy videos of rocketry gone awry. As the next generation of rocketeers steps into the limelight cast by a $10 million competition, it is finding some things never change. |
Discovery Milestones Set Stage For Return To Flight
Kennedy Space Center FL(SPX) Aug 18, 2004The pace of preparations for Return to Flight is picking up, with several key milestones in recent weeks marking important progress in readying the Space Shuttle Discovery for its next mission. |
TRMM Sees Rain From Hurricanes Fall Around The World
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 18, 2004Since rain and freshwater flooding are the number one causes of death from hurricanes in the United States over the last 30 years, better understanding of these storms is vital for insuring public safety. A recent study funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation offers insight into patterns of rainfall from tropical storms and hurricanes around the world. Free Meteorological Data Website Launched 
Beijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2004China has launched a free meteorological data website aiming to improve its on-line meteorology information sharing service. Typhoon Affects 13 Million In Zhejiang 
Hangzhou (XNA) Aug 18, 2004Typhoon Rananim, the worst in 48 years, have already killed at least 164 people and left 24 still missing in east Zhejiang province. |
Soldering Surprise
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 17, 2004Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center, watched his video monitor in disbelief. A transmission from the International Space Station was playing. The scene: Astronaut Mike Fincke touches the tip of a soldering iron to a wire wrapped with rosin-core solder. Light-Activated Glue Holds And Releases Workpieces In A Flash 
University Park PA (SPX) Aug 18, 2004Penn State engineer has developed a new technology that uses light-activated glue to hold workpieces in position for machining, grinding and other manufacturing processes. How Old Is The Milky Way? 
Paranal Observatory, Chile (SPX) Aug 18, 2004Observations by an international team of astronomers with the UVES spectrometer on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory (Chile) have thrown new light on the earliest epoch of the Milky Way galaxy. |
Army Boosts Boeing's Future Combat Program Value By Up To $6.4 Billion
St. Louis (SPX) Aug 17, 2004Boeing and the U.S. Army signed an agreement August 7, to provide up to $6.4 billion in additional funding for the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase of the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. Raytheon Delivers Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Payloads For Fort Greely 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 18, 2004Raytheon has delivered the first deployable flight elements of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Ground- based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program from its Missile Defense Kinetic Kill Vehicle production facility in Tucson, Ariz. ATK Delivers First Minuteman III Motor Set Ahead Of Schedule 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 17, 2004ATK has delivered the first ship set of second and third stage rocket motors for the Minuteman III Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP) more than two weeks ahead of schedule. The ship set, targeted for delivery by July 9, was delivered to ICBM prime contractor Northrop Grumman on June 23. United Space Alliance Selects AssurX's CATSWeb For Human Space Flight Operations 
Morgan Hill CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2004United Space Alliance, the prime contractor for NASA's Space Shuttle Program, has selected AssurX's CATSWeb quality tracking application to manage non-conformances and corrective actions to support human space flight operations. World's First Self-Contained, GPS-Synchronized Solar LED Marine Light 
Victoria BC (SPX) Aug 18, 2004Carmanah Technologies is pleased to announce the release of the world's first completely unitized, GPS-synchronized marine light - a three nautical mile navigation light that coordinates with GPS time signals to allow any number of units installed anywhere in the world to flash in perfect unison. Northwest MedStar Supports Rural EMS Agencies With GPS Donations 
Spokane WA (SPX) Aug 17, 2004Through a $16,100 grant from the Washington State Trauma Care Fund, a division of the Department of Health, Northwest MedStar is donating 150 Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) units to 49 public safety agencies in 14 counties in eastern Washington. |
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