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Comet Machholz Visits The Pleiades This Friday NightHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 07, 2005 
A cloud of gas bigger than the planet Jupiter, glowing alien green, is about to sweep past the Seven Sisters in Taurus. Got binoculars? You can watch it happen. Step outside on Friday night, January 7th, between 9 and 10 o'clock, and face south. There's Orion the Hunter locked in combat with Taurus the Bull. |
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Elements In Place For Return To Flight
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 07, 2005The External Tank that will hold the propellants for the Space Shuttle's Return to Flight mission has reached its final Earthly destination: NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Spacehab Appeals Decision For Losses On Space Shuttle Mission 
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 06, 2005Spacehab announced Wednesday that it filed an appeal last week with the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals regarding NASA's limited response to the Company's claim for the February 2003 loss of its Research Double Module (RDM) in the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. |
MDA Signs Contract Valued At $154M To Provide Hubble Rescue Solution
Richmond BC (SPX) Jan 06, 2005MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates announced Wednesday that it has signed a contract worth approximately $154 million U.S. to provide a potential information and robotic servicing solution to NASA to rescue the hubble Space Telescope. Space Watch: Bush 43 Vs Bush 41 In Space 
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 07, 2005January 14 will mark one year since President George W. Bush stood before a packed audience at NASA headquarters in Washington and announced, to great fanfare, a new American space initiative. |
More Than 2,500 Aftershocks In Wake Of Asia Tsunamis
Vienna, Austria (AFP) Jan 06, 2005More than 2,500 aftershocks have been recorded in the wake of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake which triggered devastating tidal waves in south Asia 11 days ago, the body set up to monitor nuclear tests said Thursday. Tsunami-Hit Nations To Get Warning System 
New Delhi (UPI) Jan 4, 2005Most of the Asian nations battered by the tsunamis were taken by surprise when the waves wrecked havoc following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the tip of Sumatra Island in Indonesia. Despite the time difference between nations and the travel hours taken by the giant waves, there was no communication between the Asian countries over the impending disaster. |
Scientists Prepare For Huygens Descent On Titan
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 06, 2005University of Arizona scientists, working on the robotic Huygens mission, head for Germany next week. About a dozen UA researchers will join their international colleagues in Darmstadt for adrenalin-charged science operations on Jan. 14 and 15. Methane Found On Saturn Plays Crucial Role In Planet Formation 
Livermore CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2005Using an infrared spectrometer on the Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft, researchers have measured the temperature, winds and chemical composition of Saturn, its rings and one of its moons, Phoebe. |
Most Powerful Eruption In The Universe Discovered
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 06, 2005Astronomers have found the most powerful eruption in the universe using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. A super massive black hole generated this eruption by growing at a remarkable rate. First Detection Of Magnetic Fields In Central Stars Of Four Planetary Nebulae 
Cerro Paranal, Chile (SPX) Jan 06, 2005For the first time, a team of astronomers based in Germany has detected the presence of magnetic fields in the central stars of four planetary nebulae. Planetary nebulae are expanding gas shells that remain after Sun-like stars eject their outer layers at the end of their lifetimes. |
CSIRO Points The Way To Seafloor Riches
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 04, 2005The recent historic announcement of a new seafloor minerals initiative by Mining Company Placer Dome, after it reached an agreement with Nautilus Minerals on its PNG tenements, is the next logical step in a chain of events that began with a mammoth research effort over almost 20 years by CSIRO Exploration & Mining. Ball Aerospace Completes Assembly And Integration On NPP 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 06, 2005Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed assembly and integration of the spacecraft for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP). |
North Korea Unveils New War Plan Focusing On Defense: Report
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) Jan 05, 2005Stalinist North Korea has set up a new war plan focusing on defense from US attacks and highlighting underground protection facilities. South Korea Claims World's Smartest Robot 
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Jan 07, 2005South Korean scientists said Thursday they had developed the world's smartest robot able to think and learn like a human. Unveiling their creation, they said the robot that looks like a small teenager wearing a blue and grey space suit was the first wireless network-based human-like robot. |
Smart Bombs To Blast Tumours
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jan 06, 2005Nanoscale polymer capsules could one day be used to deliver chemotherapy direct to tumours, leaving adjacent tissue unscathed. The capsules would be designed to rupture when heated by a low-energy laser pulse, delivering their payload right where it is needed. Just In Time For New Year's: A Proposal For A Better Calendar 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2005Wouldn't it be convenient if your birthday, Christmas and the Fourth of July - not to mention most other major holidays - all fell on the same day of the week, year after year? |
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