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NASA Chief O'Keefe ResignsWashington DC (UPI) Dec 13, 2004 
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe Monday announced his resignation after three years on the job. He has presided over an agency that has been full of controversy and promise. |
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Mars Life: Trouble Without The Rubble?
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2004On Jan 25, Opportunity landed on Mars' Meridiani Planum. Scientists wanted interesting landing sites with less than ten to twenty percent rock coverage. Rubble would be trouble for the Rover. But few anticipated what all that flatness would finally deliver. Mars Rovers Spot Water-Clue Mineral, Frost 
Pasadena (JPL) Dec 13, 2004Scientists have identified a water-signature mineral called goethite in bedrock that the NASA's Mars rover Spirit examined in the "Columbia Hills," one of the mission's surest indicators yet for a wet history on Spirit's side of Mars. |
ISS Crew Conduct Research Activities, Prepare For Next Progress Cargo Craft
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2004International Space Station crewmembers last week continued research and maintenance activities, preparing for the arrival of the next Progress cargo craft. NASA Installs Main Engines On Discovery 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2004NASA completed installation last week of the three main engines that will help launch Space Shuttle Discovery on its Return to Flight mission. Installation was completed Dec. 8 at the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. |
Ariane 5 Launch Re-Set For Dec 18
Evry, France (SPX) Dec 13, 2004Arianespace announced that the next Ariane 5 generic launch, initially scheduled for December 10, has been delayed till December 18. This rescheduling allows for completion of a subassembly replacement on the launcher, which was decided after an anomaly appeared during ground tests. Into Space From The Icy-Cold Arctic 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 13, 2004European launchers have come to be associated with French Guiana - powerful large rockets that lift-off from the steamy-hot equatorial base at Kourou. But ESA also uses much smaller launchers that rise into space from the snow-covered tundra of northern Sweden. EuroNews has covered the most recent launch of one of these Maxus sounding rockets. |
Boeing GMD Team Places First Interceptor In Silo At Vandenberg Site
St Louis MO (SPX) Dec 13, 2004The Boeing Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program team and the Missile Defense Agency emplaced the first GMD interceptor in its underground silo at Vandenberg AFB on Dec. 10. Two Boeing X-45A Unmanned Jets Continue Coordinated Flights 
St Louis MO (SPX) Dec 13, 2004Two military jets flying together may seem routine, but when they are pilotless, tail-less aircraft, routine goes out the window and science fiction springs to mind. Two X-45A technology demonstrator aircraft made their second and third coordinated flights at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center last Friday. |
Chinese Prime Minister Visits ESTEC
The Netherlands (ESA) Dec 13, 2004China's Prime Minister Jiabao Wen visited ESA's research and technology centre (ESTEC), in Noordwijk, the Netherlands last Friday. Accompanied by four of his ministers, Prime Minister Wen was introduced to Europe's space activities and received a tour of the ESTEC facilities. Floating Robots Set Stage For Cosmic Choreography 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2004Under a velvet black dome studded with sparkling stars, a lone figure glides gracefully, tilting and whirling across a shining floor. Instead of music, however, there's the slight hiss of compressed air. |
Riding In Magnetic Bubbles
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2004New research has recently begun to examine the use of superconducting magnet technology to protect astronauts from radiation during long-duration spaceflights, such as the interplanetary flights to Mars that are proposed in NASA's current Vision for Space Exploration. What Melted Quaoar, The Ice Planet? 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2004A planetoid beyond Pluto was discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2002, and given the name, Quaoar. Like Pluto, Quaoar dwells in the Kuiper belt, an icy debris field of comet-like bodies extending 7 billion miles beyond Neptune's orbit. |
Sonofusion Research Reactor Now Available from Impulse Devices
Grass Valley CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004Impulse Devices, a developer of sonofusion power (acoustic inertial confinement fusion, AICF), announced Monday the availability of its research reactor to laboratories, universities, power equipment manufacturers and utilities attempting to produce a new alternative energy. Analysis N.M. Wants To Market Wind Power 
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 8, 2004New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wants his state to become a leader in the new era of wind power with a plan to hopefully market the power to other Western states. The U.S. has tremendous wind-energy resources, much of it in the West and Great Plains. California gave birth to the modern wind industry and still leads the nation in installed wind-energy capacity, followed closely by Texas. |
Solar Ultrasound Waves Discovered
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 14, 2004The Sun's atmosphere is filled with ultrasound-like waves that may help solve decades-old mysteries about the Sun and space weather, according to Southwest Research Institute scientists who found the waves in data from NASA's TRACE spacecraft. Astrophysical Journal Letters reported on the findings in its December 10 issue. Analysis: Few Options On Iran 
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 9, 2004Iran's agreement Nov. 15 with the European Union to suspend its uranium enrichment program seems to indicate international pressure has made a dent on Tehran's policies, but some analysts say its willingness to talk is no guarantee it is going to play fair. |
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