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The Martian Methane SurpriseMoffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2004 
At the recent Division of Planetary Sciences conference in Louisville, Kentucky, Michael Mumma, Director of the Center for Astrobiology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, announced that relatively high levels of methane had been detected on Mars. |
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New Design Method Will Help Engineers Develop Systems For Mars, Moon Missions
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 07, 2004Purdue University researchers have created a method that will enable engineers to design more efficient systems for heating, cooling and other applications in spacecraft for missions to Mars and the Moon. Ultra-Sharp, Mars-Bound HiRISE Camera Delivered 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 07, 2004The camera that will take thousands of the sharpest, most detailed pictures ever, of Mars, from an orbiting spacecraft, was delivered Monday for installation on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
Russians Plan To Build New Space Complex at Kazakhstan
Almaty, Kazakhstan (UPI) Dec 06, 2004Russian space officials said Monday they will build a new rocket launch complex at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome by the end of 2008. Baiterek's infrastructure will be based on existing launch sites for heavy boosters. Russia Reveals New Missile Threat 
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Dec 06, 2004Russia revealed Monday it was fitting its strategic bombers with cruise missiles- capable of delivering massive precision strikes thousands of kilometres from home- giving the first hint of its post-Cold War military strategy. |
Station Nearly Empty Of Food
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (UPI) Dec 07, 2004The old cliche about eating one out of house and home applies even in outer space. NASA is drawing up possible emergency plans to evacuate the International Space Station because the two-man crews are eating more than predicted, potentially causing a critical food shortage weeks earlier than expected. Research Shows NASA Sleep-Wake Scheduling Guide May Need To Be Changed 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 07, 2004New research from the University of Pittsburgh shows the human body has difficulty adjusting to dramatic time changes such as those experienced by working shifts or traveling across time zones. |
Rumsfeld Confirms Will Stay On, Vows Transformation Of US Military
Kuwait City, Kuwait (AFP) Dec 06, 2004US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday he would devote himself to transforming the military and bringing American troops out of Iraq, as he confirmed he would remain in President George W. Bush's administration. Raytheon To Pursue USAF $2B Transformational Mil Comm Program 
Aurora CO (SPX) Dec 07, 2004Raytheon will lead an industry team in pursuit of the Transformational Satellite Communications System Mission Operations System, a program to provide the warfighter a secure, interoperable, high-capacity global communications network. The contract will be awarded in fiscal year 2005. |
The Geminid Meteor Shower
Huntsvile AL (SPX) Dec 07, 2004The best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night. It's the Geminids. The best time to look is Monday night, Dec. 13th. Sky watchers who stay outside for a few hours around midnight can expect to see dozens to hundreds of "shooting stars." Levitated Dipole Experiment Helps To Advance Fusion Energy Research 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 07, 2004MIT and Columbia University students and researchers have begun operation of a novel experiment that confines high-temperature ionized gas, called plasma, using the strong magnetic fields from a half-ton superconducting ring inside a huge vessel, reminiscent of a spaceship. |
Northrop Grumman, UDI To Collaborate On Ground-Based Laser Defense Systems
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2004Northrop Grumman and United Defense Industries are teaming to provide the U.S. Army with first-of-their-kind, ground-based laser defense systems designed to protect U.S. soldiers against a variety of current and emerging threats. SKorea's Samsung To Invest 24 Billion Dollars In New Chip Lines 
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) Dec 06, 2004South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chipmaker, said Monday it will invest 24 billion dollars in new chip production lines over the next six years. Chips accounted for 10 percent of South Korea's entire exports in the nine months to September, worth nearly 20 billion dollars. |
Climate: The Tropospheric Data Do Conform
Boulder CO (UPI) Dec 06, 2004Global warming skeptics for some time have been using as a scientific linchpin data that suggest temperatures in the lower atmosphere are rising more slowly than those at the surface. Darfur Aid Workers Helped From Orbit 
Strasbourg, France (ESA) Dec 07, 2004It is hard to overstate the scale of the humanitarian emergency unfolding in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region: by estimates there are 1.45 million people displaced from their homes across an area the size of France. Images from space, though, are assisting aid workers as they cope with the crisis. |
Calling The Roll On The ANWR
Boulder CO (UPI) Dec 01, 2004The new makeup of the U.S. Senate is giving Republicans their best opportunity since the Bush administration took office to open up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling for oil and natural gas. Environment Boils Down To Science 
La Jolla CA (UPI) Dec 03, 2004The advocates and lobbyists on both sides of the great sage grouse controversy in the West were claiming to have science on their side, Friday, after the Bush administration decided not to add the bird to the endangered species list. |
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