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Scientists Call For Permanent Manned Lunar Base By 2024Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 26, 2004 
Scientists from leading space nations closed a conference on moon exploration here last Friday with a call for global cooperation to achieve a permanent human lunar base by 2024. |
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Moon Could Meet Earth's Energy Needs
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 26, 2004A potential energy source found on the moon's surface could hold the key to meeting future energy demands as the earth's fossil fuels dry up in the coming decades, scientists said last Friday. ISS Crew Vacate Station To Reposition Soyuz Spacecraft 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2004Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov will briefly vacate the Station on Monday. After configuring Station systems for autonomous operation, they will fly their Soyuz lifeboat from one docking port to another. |
US Official: Taiwan Vulnerable To Chinese Technology Sabotage
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2004A top U.S. defense official has issued an unusually candid warning that China is developing techniques to virtually cut off rival Taiwan from communications with the rest of the world and is urging Taiwan's leaders do more to safeguard the island's high tech infrastructure. Iranian 'Sputnik' Could Be Trojan Horse For Tehran's Ballistic Missile Program 
New York NY (SPX) Nov 29, 2004Aviation Week & Space Technology reported in its November 29 issue that U.S. intelligence analysts are concerned about the planned launch from Iran, by early 2005, of an Iranian built satellite on an upgraded version of Tehran's largest ballistic missile, the Shahab-3. |
Ariane 5's Auxiliary Payloads Are Placed Atop The Launcher
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 29, 2004Preparations for Arianespace Flight 165 marked another milestone last week as the mission's six auxiliary payloads were integrated on the Ariane 5 launcher. Improved Soyuz 2-1a Launcher Makes Its First Flight 
Samara, Russia (SPX) Nov 29, 2004This months successful maiden flight of an improved Soyuz vehicle marked an important milestone in the program to bring this Russian workhorse vehicle into Arianespace's commercial launcher family. |
Iran Backs Down On Enrichment Exemption
Vienna, Austria (AFP) Nov 28, 2004Iran backed down Sunday on a demand to exempt sensitive equipment from a freeze on uranium enrichment that can make atomic weapons, setting the stage for the UN nuclear watchdog to endorse the freeze as a confidence-building measure. US Changes Grounds For Missile Sanctions 
Biisk, Russia (SPX) Nov 29, 2004Russia's Altai dismissed U.S. accusations of spreading missile technologies. "Altai engages in foreign trade strictly in line with Russian legislation," an offical said. |
Advancing The Webb
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2004Balancing its position between the Sun and Earth's gravity, a next generation of Space Observatory is beginning to come off the drawing boards and onto the lathes and lens grinders of machine shops. Scheduled for launch in 2011, the Webb Space Telescope was officially named today after James E. Webb, NASA's second administrator. Swift To Unravel Energetic Flashes 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2004Imagine an explosion that could emit a million times more energy than the combined output of all the stars in the Milky Way. If you could hear this burst, it would deafen you. If you could see one, it would blind you. |
Four-Point Observations Of Solar Wind Discontinuities
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 29, 2004Minimum variance analysis, a widely used data analysis technique, is much less reliable than previously thought to determine the type of an interplanetary magnetic field discontinuity, according to a statistical study based on Cluster data. Stellar Clusters Forming In The Blue Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5253 
Santiago, Chile (ESO) Nov 29, 2004Star formation is one of the most basic phenomena in the Universe. Inside stars, primordial material from the Big Bang is processed into heavier elements that we observe today. |
Seismic Shaking Erased Small Impact Craters On Asteroid Eros
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 29, 2004University of Arizona scientists have discovered why Eros, the largest near-Earth asteroid, has so few small craters. Cairo And The Nile Delta, Egypt 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 29, 2004This latest Envisat SAR image is focused on Cairo, and shows the Nile running from south to north. Cairo has an overall metropolitan area population of 15 million. It is the largest city in Africa and the thirteenth largest city in the world. |
WHO: Bird Flu Outbreak Will Likely Cause New Human Flu Pandemic
Hong Kong, China (SPX) Nov 29, 2004The World Health Organization is warning Asian nations that its current struggle with bird flu could lead to the next deadly human flu pandemic across the globe. Millions could die. Evacuation Of Volcano-Hit Papua New Guinea Island Gets Underway 
Port Moresby, PNG (AFP) Nov 28, 2004Nine thousand villagers from Papua New Guinea's remote Manam Island began leaving Sunday amid fears the island's volcano was about to erupt. |
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