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Mojave CA (AFP) Oct 06, 2004 
A day after rocketship SpaceShipOne on Monday won a 10-million-dollar prize aimed at kickstarting space tourism, there appears to be no shortage of wealthy adventurers keen to be first to blaze a trail into the galaxy. Around 125 hard-line space junkies have already paid more than 100,000 dollars for tickets for a short trip on the world's first commercial spaceliners, years before the first passengers will be ushered aboard. |
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The Triumph of Truth and Technology
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2004The winning of the X-Prize heralds that a new space age is here, wherein new entrants and alternative space players will challenge the incumbent space agencies, write Michael Potter and Rick Tumlinson in an exclusive column for SpaceDaily. Cosmonauts Lament Cash Shortage 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 04, 2004Russian cosmonauts Monday denounced what they said were shortages in government financing of the space industry, saying Russia had lost its Soviet-era status of space pioneer. |
Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2004Engineers on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team are investigating possible causes and remedies for a problem affecting the steering on Spirit. The relay for steering actuators on Spirit's right-front and left-rear wheels did not operate as commanded on Oct. 1. The Grabens Of Claritas Fossae 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 06, 2004This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows the Claritas Fossae tectonic grabens and part of the Solis Planum plains. |
China Makes Strides In Space Technology
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 06, 2004The model of the carrier rocket CZ-2 F, and its launch pad, recently erected in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, has been an attraction for local residents and tourists from other parts of China. Taiwan Research Satellite Could Be Used For Military Purposes: Report 
Taipei, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 05, 2004Taiwanese intelligence and security officials took a close interest in the development of what rival China sees as a spy satellite, a report said Tuesday. Taiwan says the satellite, which was launched in May in the United States, is intended to monitor the island's land mass and surrounding waters, and study atmospheric conditions. |
NASA Studies Space Railway To Explore Planets, Stars, And Galaxies
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 06, 2004A NASA-led team is studying the construction of a railway in space for a pair of telescopes that will provide views of planet, star, and galaxy formation in unprecedented detail. The Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope mission will also examine the atmospheric chemistry of giant planets around other stars. The Shape of Things to Come 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2004The project plans are being developed by a consortium of institutions headed up by Cornell, and funded by the National Science Foundation among others. The SKA plans are loosely based on the ideas being implemented by the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). |
Saturn's Lanes Of Air Are Vast And Chaotic
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2004This Cassini image shows mesmerizing detail in the swirls and ribbons of air in Saturn's atmosphere. The view was obtained at a distance of 8.5 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) from Saturn and is but a taste of what the spacecraft's powerful cameras will show when Cassini draws nearer to the planet. The limb of the planet is visible at lower right. New Star-Type Stillborn 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 05, 2004Astronomers using the Gemini North and Keck II telescopes have peered inside a violent binary star system to find that one of the interacting stars has lost so much mass to its partner that it has regressed to a strange, inert body resembling no known star type. |
New Physics-Based Simulator Will Explore Biological Structures
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 06, 2004The National Center for Physics-Based Simulation of Biological Structures (SimBioS) has been charged with developing a simulation toolkit to enable scientists worldwide to model biological systems ranging from molecules to whole organisms. Nanotech Offers Data Storage At One Terrabyte Per Square Inch 
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 06, 2004Storing the entire Library of Congress on a Palm Pilot or putting 1,000 movies on a two-inch disk may sound like incredibly futuristic goals, but University of Houston engineers are working swiftly toward making them a reality. |
Pathfinder-Plus Solar Wing Readied to Fly Again at NASA Dryden
Edwards AFB (SPX) Oct 05, 2004NASA and AeroVironment are joining forces again to conduct a new series of research flights by the solar-electric Pathfinder-Plus flying wing this fall at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. Globecomm Helps Rebuild Main Afghan Satellite Infrastructure 
Hauppauge NY (SPX) Oct 05, 2004Globecomm Systems has been awarded a $3.6 million contract to reconstruct communications infrastructure in Afghanistan from the Ministry of Communication of the Islamic Transitional State of Afghanistan (MoC). |
Iran Adds To International Worries With Bigger Range Missile
Tehran, Iran (AFP) Oct 05, 2004Iran declared Tuesday it had ballistic missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles), and could produce ones with a greater range, an announcement likely to add to international concerns over its weapons capabilities. USEC Reports 9,000 Nuclear Warheads Permanently Eliminated 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 06, 2004USEC announced Tuesday that 225 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade uranium, the equivalent of 9,000 nuclear warheads, has been recycled into fuel purchased by USEC for use in America's nuclear power plants. |
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