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Doing Mars On One Million Dollars A DayPasadena (SPX) Jan 03, 2005 
NASA lit a birthday candle today for its twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The Spirit rover begins its second year on Mars investigating puzzling rocks unlike any found earlier. |
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Analysis: The Triumph Of The Robots
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 03, 2005The human side of the U.S. space program remains problem-plagued, with the shuttle fleet still grounded and the ISS hanging in limbo. NASA's robotic craft exploring Mars and the Saturnian system in 2004, however, have carried off feats that are unparalleled in human history -- and they promise to deliver more wonders in the new year. Analysis: Scientists And Engineers At War 
Washington (UPI) Jan 03, 2005Public and political support is growing for President George W. Bush's ambitious plan for space exploration, but at least one scientific organization has cast doubts about Bush's vision -- although whether those doubts carry any weight or have much validity is debatable. |
Analysis: US-Russia Teamwork Unraveling
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 03, 2005Russia's announcement this week that U.S. astronauts will get no more free rides on Russian rockets to the International Space Station was not motivated by cash concerns alone: It reflects the beginning of what is likely to be a rapid and alarming freeze in U.S.-Russian relations. Shuttle External Tank On Route To Cape 
Michoud LA (SPX) Jan 01, 2005The longest journey for the Space Shuttle's External Tank isn't its 69-mile climb during the Shuttle's eight-and-a-half-minute liftoff and ascent into space. Just what is? Here's a hint: Take your seasick pills! |
Space Station Crew Relied on Sweets to Cope with Food Shortage
Washington (VOA) Dec 30, 2005The ISS astronauts say the recent food shortage aboard the outpost forced them to cut their food intake dramatically and eat lots of sweets for energy. They attribute the food problem to a lack of communication between the previous crew and ground controllers. NASA Selects Investigations For Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 22, 2004NASA has selected six proposals to provide instrumentation and associated exploration/science measurement investigations for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the first spacecraft to be built as part of the Vision for Space Exploration. |
New Year Comet Is A "Machholz" Of A Site To See
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2005Comet Machholz is now at its best, high in the evening sky! And over the first week of January there's no moonlight to interfere. The comet is a stunning object in binoculars, glowing at 4th magnitude pale green-gray. Cassini Back On Track After Course Change 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 03, 2005NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a getaway maneuver on Monday, Dec. 27, to keep it from following the European Space Agency's Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. |
Antarctic May Have Iced Over When Atmosphere Changed
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 03, 2005A longstanding theory that provides much of the basis for our understanding of climate change � that the mile-thick ice sheet covering Antarctica developed because of a shift in ocean currents millions of years ago � has been challenged by Purdue University scientists. Analysis: Tsunami Tragedy Was Inevitable 
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 28, 2004Earthquake and tsunami specialists working for the U.S. National Weather service and other agencies, at home and abroad, reacted with lightning speed to the huge earthquake that struck off the northwest tip of the island of Sumatra early Sunday morning. |
Cassini Caps Off 2004 With Flyby Of Icy Moon Iapetus
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 03, 2005NASA's Cassini spacecraft capped off 2004 with an encounter of Saturn's ying-yang moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) on New Year's Eve. This was Cassini's closest pass yet by one of Saturn's smaller icy satellites since its arrival around the ringed giant on June 30 of this year. The next close flyby of Iapetus is not until 2007. US Official Defends Plans for Missile Defense Despite Test Failure 
Washington DC (VOA) 17 Dec, 2004A Bush administration official says the United States will continue to pursue missile defense despite a recent failed test of the system when an interceptor missile did not go off during an exercise in the Pacific Ocean. |
Analysis: Tsunami Waves' Tragic Turns Of Fate
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 30, 2004There is a dark familiarity for Americans in studying the tragic twists of fate that led to Sunday's horrific tsunami-wave disaster in southern Asia. The heartbreaking list of precautions that should have been taken and warnings that could have been sent but never were, mount up remorselessly. Danger Of Nuclear War Mounting On Korean Peninsula: North Korea 
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) Jan 01, 2005North Korea said Saturday that the risk of a nuclear war was mounting on the Korean peninsula as the United States attempts to "stifle" it by force. It urged Washington to drop its "hostile" policy toward the communist state and demanded solidarity among all Koreans in order to drive out US troops stationed in South Korea, calling them the "very source of a nuclear war." |
India-Malaysia To Develop A Satellite Neighbourhood For Asia-Pacific
New Delhi, India (SPX) Jan 03, 2005Antrix Corporation Limited, the commercial arm of ISRO, and MEASAT Global Bhd have signed an agreement to form a Joint Venture Company ("JV Co") to pool their satellite capabilities, in a major move to develop a satellite neighbourhood for millions of broadcasting and telecommunications customers across the wider Asia Pacific region. 100% Of Rural America Now Has Access to Broadband Internet Service 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 03, 2005The much discussed "digital divide" between rural and urban America has effectively been bridged for anyone who now desires high-speed (broadband) Internet connectivity, but many people are still not aware there is universal access or the impact, according to President Kip Pendleton AgriStar Global Networks. |
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