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Washington DC (UPI) Sep 2, 2004 
NASA officials point to a host of technical changes and modifications they are making to the space shuttle fleet that should bring about safer space flight, reports Frank Sietzen in the final part of his three part series on the Shuttle's return to flight. |
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US Plans Take-Away Nuclear Power Plants
Livermore CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2004A nuclear reactor that can meet the energy needs of developing countries without the risk that they will use the by-products to make weapons is being developed by the US Department of Energy. The aim is to create a sealed reactor that can be delivered to a site, left to generate power for up to 30 years, and retrieved when its fuel is spent. Conjunction Junction 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2004NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has resumed using its rock abrasion tool after a pebble fell out that had jammed the tool's rotors two weeks ago. |
Cassini Reveals Saturn's Cool Rings
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2004The Cassini spacecraft has taken the most detailed temperature measurements to date of Saturn's rings. Data taken by the composite infrared spectrometer instrument on the spacecraft while entering Saturn's orbit show the cool and relatively warm regions of the rings. Probing Different Depths 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2004These two images, taken at about the same time, demonstrate the amazing ability of Cassini's cameras to probe the different layers in Saturn's atmosphere. |
Raytheon Selected For NASA Project Constellation Engineering Team
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 03, 2004Raytheon has been selected by NASA to participate in a six-month study team to define various system requirements and design the architecture for the agency's Project Constellation Moon-to-Mars program. Spacehab Awarded NASA Exploration Contract
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 03, 2004Spacehab, a provider of commercial space services, announced today that it has been awarded a six-month NASA study contract valued at approximately $1.0 million to support the space agency's new exploration initiatives. |
PAC-3 Missiles Defeat Tactical Ballistic Missile And Cruise Missile In Test
Dallas TX (SPX) Sep 03, 2004Lockheed Martin Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missiles successfully intercepted and destroyed an incoming tactical ballistic missile (TBM) and a low-altitude cruise missile in a dual test Thursday at White Sands Missile Range, NM. Captive Carry Test Prepares For Next X-43A / Hyper-X Flight 
Edwards CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2004A full-scale dress rehearsal for the last and even faster flight of the unpiloted X-43A research aircraft is tentatively scheduled to occur on Tuesday, Sept. 7 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. |
Not Long Ago, In A Galaxy Far Away..
Arecibo, Puerto Rico (SPX) Sep 03, 2004In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky. The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm the findings. Tiny Meteorite Grains Help Settle An Astronomical Debate 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 03, 2004"These tiny relics, a millionth of a meter small, could point us to the first steps of dust formation in both old and young stars," stated Dr. Larry Nittler of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. |
Battle Between Bubbles Might Have Started Evolution
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 03, 2004Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are proposing that the first battle for survival-of-the-fittest might have played out as a simple physical duel between fatty bubbles stuffed with genetic material. Probable Discovery Of A New, Supersolid, Phase Of Matter 
Penn State PA (SPX) Sep 03, 2004In the Friday 3 September 2004 issue of Science Express, two physicists from Penn State University will announce new experimental evidence for the existence of a new phase of matter, a "supersolid" form of helium-4 with the extraordinary frictionless-flow properties of a superfluid. |
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