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Columbia Commander's Wife Concerned
Dallas TX (UPI) Feb 01, 2005The widow of the Columbia commander is concerned NASA may be pushing too hard to return a shuttle to space by early June. Evelyn Husband, the wife of Columbia commander Rick Husband, spoke to The Dallas Morning News for a story on the second anniversary of the shuttle's loss. NASA Cautioned Over Shuttle Model 
Cape Canaveral (SPX) Feb 01, 2005Experts cautioned that NASA should not rely excessively on untested computer models to decide whether the new shuttle modification is secure enough to face any heat shield failures during its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, said an interim report issued by the Return to Flight Task Group of NASA. Lunar Transportation Systems- A New Private Commercial Space Venture 
Bellevue WA (SPX) Feb 02, 2005Walter Kistler and Bob Citron formed Lunar Transportation Systems early last year in response to the President's new Vision for Space Exploration. LTS's goal is to raise major financing from the private sector to develop, build, ground test, flight test, and operate a new Earth-Moon transportation system. |
The Sands Of Mars
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 01, 2005Imagine this scenario. The year is 2030 or thereabouts. After voyaging six months from Earth, you and several other astronauts are the first humans on Mars. You're standing on an alien world, dusty red dirt beneath your feet, looking around at a bunch of mining equipment deposited by previous robotic landers. The Martian Dust Bowl 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 01, 2005Since landing on Mars a year ago, NASA's pair of six-wheeled geologists have been constantly exposed to martian winds and dust. Because the rovers use solar power and sunlight is currently limited on Mars, the rovers can only cover from 50 to 100 feet on a good day. Light Emissions Detected In Nightside Martian Atmosphere 
Paris (ESA) Feb 01, 2005We detected light emissions in the nightside Martian atmosphere with the SPICAM ultraviolet spectrometer on board Mars Express. The UV spectrum of this nightglow is composed of hydrogen Lyman a emission (121.6 nanometres) and the g and d bands of nitric oxide (190 to 270 nanometres) produced when N and O atoms combine to produce the NO molecule. |
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Sun-Striped Saturn
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 01, 2005In a dazzling and dramatic portrait painted by the Sun, the long thin shadows of Saturn's rings sweep across the planet's northern latitudes. Within the shadows, bright bands represent areas where the ring material is less dense, while dark strips and wave patterns reveal areas of denser material. Orbital's IBEX Selected By NASA For Small Explorer Scientific Mission 
Dulles VA (SPX) Feb 02, 2005Orbital Sciences have announced that NASA has selected the company's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite to carry out the next mission in its Small Explorer (SMEX) series of scientific spacecraft. Sickening Solar Flares 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 01, 2005NASA is returning to the Moon - not just robots, but people. In the decades ahead we can expect to see habitats, greenhouses and power stations up there. Astronauts will be out among the moondust and craters, exploring, prospecting, building. |
China, US Discuss New Defense Hotline
Beijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2005Chinese Defense Ministry and its US counterpart rounded off their first special policy dialogue here Tuesday with both voicing their satisfactions, a sign of warming ties between two militaries of the two countries. The two-day closed-door talk covered a wide range of issues, including the Taiwan issue, maritime military security and exchange programs in 2005, China, Russia To Hold First Ever Joint Military Drill 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 01, 2005Russia and China will conduct their first ever joint military exercises in August or September to better coordinate the fight against terrorism, state media reported Tuesday. CIA Correcting Prewar Iraq WMD Assessments With Retrospective Reports 
Washington DC (AFP) Feb 02, 2005The CIA has begun a series of classified retrospective reports rectifying prewar assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs that turned out to be wrong, a US intelligence official said Tuesday. |
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