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Center's 'Chicken Gun' Helps Shuttle Return To Flight
Arnold Air Force Base TN (SPX) Sep 07, 2004Experts here are launching rectangular pieces of foam, traveling up to 1,500 mph, at the space shuttle's solid rocket booster to help NASA officials make sure the vehicle is ready to return to flight. Going From Air Force To NASA Blue For Astronaut Wings 
San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 07, 2004It is the all too famous image seen across the world - the orange suits, the big smiles, the friendly waves - as an astronaut crew prepares to launch out of Earth's orbit. Since the first US manned space flight in 1961, the Air Force has been a part of the nation's space program. |
High Technology Vs. Space Travel
Honolulu HI (SPX) Sep 07, 2004One of the many false ideas people have about space travel is that it is leading the human race ahead boldly into the future, hand-in-hand with high technology. This is another one of those old chestnuts from the 1950s that simply isn't true anymore, but still lingers in peoples' minds and makes it difficult for them to think clearly about space, writes Jeffrey F. Bell.  
Jerusalem, Israel (AFP) Sep 06, 2004Israel's new-generation spy satellite Ofek 6 failed a launch attempt on Monday and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea after a technical malfunction, the defence ministry said. "Today, September 7, 2004 at 1:53 pm (1053 GMT) an unsuccessful attempt was made to launch into orbit a remote sensing satellite," a ministry statement said. |
Chinese To Create Man-Made Starry Sky
Beijing (XNA) Sep 07, 2004Outer space will for the first time in human history have man-made stars in the sky. Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper reports that Chinese space engineers are now developing new types of satellite for communication, remote sensing, mapping, and space exploration that will be visible to the naked eye from the earth. |
The Grid Becomes A Reality
London, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2004This week, UK particle physicists will demonstrate the world's largest, working computing Grid. With over 6,000 computers at 78 sites internationally, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) is the first permanent, worldwide Grid for doing real science. Quenching China's Thirst For Power 
Beijing (XNA) Sep 07, 2004China will put up a number of nuclear power projects for public bidding in the next one or two months, said a senior official in Sydney, Australia, on Monday. |
ESA Signs Cooperation Agreement With Turkey
Ankara, Turkey (SPX) Sep 07, 2004On 15 July in Ankara, Mr Jean-Pol Poncelet, Director of External Relations, and Prof. Nuket Yetis, President of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), signed the Framework Cooperation Agreement between ESA and the Government of Turkey concerning Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes. Genesis Reentry 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 07, 2004On September 8th, a daylight fireball will streak across the western United States. It's Genesis, returning samples of the Sun to Earth. Meteors are unpredictable. You never know, not exactly, when one will streak across the sky. A Bright Supernova In The Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 07, 2004The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar blast, called a supernova. The supernova is so bright in this image that it easily could be mistaken for a foreground star in our Milky Way Galaxy. |
Scientists Seal Space Radiation Project With NASA
Kingston UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2004Two Kingston University scientists have linked up with NASA in the first ever collaboration on space medicine between the United Kingdom and the United States. The project aims to explore ways to protect astronauts from space radiation in preparation for a manned mission to Mars. Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: New Models Shed Light On Enigmatic Explosions 
Garching, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2004Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics have developed new relativistic models which allow predictions of so far unknown properties of short gamma-ray bursts. China Plans Commercial SAR EO Constellation 
Beijing (SPX) Sep 07, 2004A unique and entirely commercial "Surveyor" SAR satellite constellation comprising 5 low-cost medium C Band sensors has been placed under a global design competition by Tuyuan Technologies for launch in 2007. Tuyuan's satellite crop streamer service represents the first focused satellite enterprise on global coverage for food crops and food security. |
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Subtropical Arctic 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Sep 07, 2004The North Pole, synonymous with all things very cold, once had a subtropical climate according to scientists now returning from the Arctic. Deception Point 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2004Who wrote the Great Astrobiology Novel, and what can one learn from reading it? If forced to answer this question today, a consensus might build around the particulars of one record-setting novelist, Dan Brown. Genetic Map Of Important Tree Genes Outlined 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Sep 07, 2004Researchers in Sweden and the United States have publicly released a new database of many of the most important genes in a tree genome. This collection of genes, which includes a large proportion of those expressed during tree growth, is among the best for any plant species. Fred Whipple, World-Renowned Astronomer, Dies 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2004Dr. Fred Lawrence Whipple, the oldest living American astronomer and one of the last giants of 20th century astronomy, passed away August 30 at the age of 97 following a prolonged illness. He was Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Harvard University and a Senior Physicist at SAO. BTBS And SES Astra Team Up To Provide Cost-Effective Uplink Solution 
London, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2004BT Broadcast Services (BTBS), the broadcast and media solutions arm of BT, and SES Astra, an SES Global company, Monday announced a long-term cooperation contract to promote Astra at 19.2 degrees East to independent satellite broadcasters. |
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