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Why Fear Won't Sell Space
Honolulu (SPX) Aug 20, 2004Jim Oberg has written an excellent article that clears away a lot of mythology about the Golden Age of American manned spaceflight in the 1960s. He cuts right to the heart of the Apollo program.. Fear! NASA Mission Returns With A Piece Of The Sun 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 20, 2004In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA's Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule filled with particles of the Sun that may ultimately tell us more about the genesis of our solar system. |
Power Boost For Opportunity
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2004Opportunity is healthy and continuing to investigate a rock outcrop dubbed "Axel Heiberg" on the southern slope of "Endurance Crater." Walking In The Void 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2004Venturing into the vacuum of space, with its extreme temperatures and the challenges of weightlessness in what amounts to a personal spacecraft, can never become routine. |
Cooking On A Comet..?
Paris (ESA) Aug 20, 2004One of the ingenious instruments on board Rosetta is designed to 'smell' the comet for different substances, analysing samples that have been 'cooked' in a set of miniature ovens. ESA's Rosetta will be the first space mission ever to land on a comet. Going To Mercury? Don't Leave Home Without A NIST Calibration 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2004The first spacecraft intended to orbit Mercury was launched on Aug. 3, 2004, carrying an instrument for mapping the composition of the planet's crust that was calibrated with a novel procedure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). |
Axsys To Produce Optical Components For James Webb Space Telescope
Rocky Hill CT (SPX) Aug 20, 2004Axsys Technologies has received a $18.6 million definitive contract from Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation to produce beryllium optical substrates for the James Webb Space Telescope ("JWST"). The Case Against Hubble Sacramento CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2004 
A combination of nostalgia and a "fear of flying" could cost US taxpayers over $2 billion if Congress backs an ever more complex plan using telerobotics to save the Hubble Space Telescope. In a detailed analysis of what could be the worst example of bad astronomy since Rome banished Galileo, Bruce Moomaw presents the case for terminating Hubble and building a fleet of cheaper, more advanced orbiting telescopes. |
NASA Working On Early Version Of Star-Trek-like Main Ship Computer
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2004All that is known about future spaceships will be in their main computers, according to NASA scientists. They busily are creating a set of computer 'tools' that possibly will evolve into a main computer system much like that of the fictional starship Enterprise of television's 'Star Trek' series. |
ViaSat Receives NSA Certification For IP Encryptor
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2004ViaSat has received certification from the National Security Agency for its KG-250 IP Encryptor product for use on classified US government communication networks. Aerospace Industry Employment Increases After Falling To 50-Year Low 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2004The US aerospace industry is hiring once again according to monthly Labor Department data compiled by AIA's Aerospace Research Center. Industry employment reached 579,800 in June after falling to a 50-year low of 568,700 in February. |
US Working To Resume Space Shuttle Flights In March
Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2004Work is accelerating to resume US space shuttle flights next March, with crucial modifications to the shuttle Discovery based on recommendations of the commission that investigated the destruction of the shuttle Columbia, NASA said Wednesday. |
Loral Files Reorganization Plan
New York (SPX) Aug 20, 2004Loral Space & Communications, and certain of its subsidiaries, Thursday filed a proposed plan of reorganization (the Plan) with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. |
OrbImage Celebrates Anniversary Of OrbView-2 SeaWiFS Satellite
Dulles VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2004OrbImage, the Dulles, a provider of satellite imagery and geospatial information services, announced Thursday that its OrbView-2 satellite recently passed its seventh successful year of operations with an unprecedented availability rate of over 98%. 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. Scientists Report First Observation Of An "Atomic Air Force" 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 19, 2004The first sighting of atoms flying in formation has been reported by physicists at the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) in the Aug. 13 issue of Physical Review Letters. 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 Ground- based Midcourse Defense program from its Missile Defense Kinetic Kill Vehicle production facility in Tucson. EcoQuest Awarded Certified Space Technology Status 
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Aug 20, 2004The Space Foundation announced Thursday that EcoQuest International's Fresh Air purification product has been officially recognized as a Certified Space Technology. Moist Soil Hot Spots May Affect Rainfall 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2004While the Earth is moistened by rainfall, scientists believe that the water in soil can, in turn, influence rainfall both regionally and globally. Forecasters, water resource managers and farmers may benefit once this connection is better understood. |
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