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SpaceShipOne Team Ready To Make Second X Prize Flight Monday
Mojave (SPX) Oct 01, 2004Burt Rutan's Mojave Aerospace Ventures Team successfully reached an altitude of 337,500 feet with pilot Mike Melvill onboard along with 180 kg of ballast. SpaceShipOne is scheduled to take off at around 7:00 am (1400 GMT) and blast out of the earth's atmosphere just over an hour later in its quest for the X Prize purse, aimed at spurring a new era of commercial space travel. |
A Moon And Its Flock Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2004 
In its own way, the shepherd moon Prometheus (102 kilometers, 63 miles across) is one of the lords of Saturn's rings. The little moon maintains the inner edge of Saturn's thin, knotted F ring, while its slightly smaller cohort, Pandora guards the ring's outer edge.New Saturn Desktop - "The Rings Cornered"
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One Down, One To Go
Mojave CA (UPI) Sep 30, 2004There is a story told about the Rutan brothers that when Dick and Burt were children, Dick used to fly model airplanes and crash them and Burt would come along, pick up the pieces and put them back together again in a different way. Dugway Genesis Team Ready To Ship Samples To Houston 
Dugway UT (SPX) Oct 01, 2004The Genesis team is preparing to ship its samples of the sun from the mission's temporary clean room at Dugway to Houston. |
NASA Seeks Ideas On Building Spaceships For A New Century Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2004 
In a request for information by mid-October, NASA is asking companies about any plans for space-launch vehicles, new types of spaceships and the logistical capabilities they could provide.Spirit Back To Normal Operations 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2004Spirit has successfully transitioned back to normal operations from conjunction operations, when Mars and Earth were on opposite sides of the Sun. |
NASA Technology Means No More Flying Blind
Hampton VA (SPX) Oct 01, 2004Imagine a world where pilots see clear skies all the time. It's not some weather fantasyland, but a revolutionary cockpit display technology called Synthetic Vision. NASA is developing it to make flying safer. NASA Spacecraft Moves One Step Closer To Fall Launch 
Huntsville (SPX) Oct 01, 2004NASA is planning to launch the Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) flight demonstrator no earlier than Oct. 26, 2004, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission is an in-space demonstration of an autonomous rendezvous prototype system. |
The Perfect Lens Maybe Impossible
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 29, 2004Researchers at Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have completed a mathematical analysis showing that it isn't quite possible to build a so-called "perfect lens," but the underlying theory still makes it feasible to design better imaging systems. Motion Detector Is 1,000 Times More Sensitive Than Any Known Tool 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Oct 01, 2004A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known. "There was nothing in the optics literature to predict that this would happen," says Sandia National Laboratories researcher Dustin Carr of his group's device, which reflects a bright light from a very small moving object. |
US Stands Firm On Kyoto Rejection Despite Russian Move To Ratify Treaty
Washington (AFP) Sep 30, 2004The United States on Thursday stood firm in rejecting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming despite renewed pressure to yield after Russia ended years of hesitation by moving to ratify the treaty. Climate Change And Global Decision Making 
Arlington VA (SPX) Sep 29, 2004Five interdisciplinary research teams will share some $25 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) over the next five years to study important aspects of problems associated with understanding climate-related decisions under uncertainty. |
California Goes Ahead With Disputed Smog Plan
Los Angeles CA (UPI) Sep 24, 2004California air-quality regulators pushed aside auto industry concerns and opened a new offensive against global warming Friday, by passing the nation's first restrictions on vehicle emissions of a greenhouse gas. Emission Of Smog Ingredients From Trees Is Increasing Rapidly 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Sep 29, 2004Changes in U.S. forests caused by land use practices may have inadvertently worsened ozone pollution, according to a study led by Princeton University scientists. |
Control Of Molecular Switches Increased By Tailored Intermolecular Interactions
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 30, 2004A means to stabilize molecular switches based on chemical interactions with surrounding molecules has been developed by a research team led by Penn State Professor of Chemistry and Physics Paul S. Weiss. New Format Could Store All Of Homer's Life On One Optical Disk 
London, UK (SPX) Sep 28, 2004Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that every episode of The Simpsons made could fit on just one. |
Fuel Cell Celebrates One Year
Fairbanks, AK (SPX) Sep 29, 2004Fairbanks, Alaska�The University of Alaska Fairbanks and Fuel Cell Technologies of Kingston, Ontario, have announced that the five-kilowatt solid oxide fuel cell installed in Fairbanks has successfully passed the one-year field operational mark. MR3 Systems Completes First Recovery System At Hanford Nuclear Reservation 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2004MR3 Systems, on May 5, 2004, announced that it had sold its first metals recovery system to Fluor Hanford ("FH") and the United States Department of Energy for the removal of toxic chromium VI from the groundwater at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington State. |
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