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NASA Marks Five Years Of A Unique Room With A View
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 02, 2005Break out the beef tips with mushrooms and rehydratable apple cider! Tomorrow, NASA and the ISS partners celebrate a major milestone, as the unique orbiting laboratory marks the fifth anniversary of continuous, onboard human presence. Venezuela And China To Build Satellite 
Caracas (AFP) Nov 01, 2005Venezuela has signed an accord with China to build a satellite, to be named Simon Bolivar after the South American revolutionary, President Hugo Chavez' office announced Tuesday. Mitsubishi Electric Receives Orders For Superbird 7 From SCC 
Tokyo (SPX) Nov 02, 2005Mitsubishi Electric has won the first commercial communications satellite contract to be awarded to a Japanese company in nearly twenty years since the US Japan satellite trade agreement effectively dealt Japan out of the market. |
Astronomers Announce Discovery Of Two New Moons Of Pluto
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 02, 2005A team of astronomers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and other institutions has discovered that Pluto has two previously unseen moons. Riding Ripples And Working Issues 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2005Opportunity is healthy and traversing around the northwest side of "Erebus Crater." The rover has driven on every sol possible, acquiring during and after each drive, and surveying the sky and horizon in the mornings with the panoramic camera. Physicists Measure Tiny Force That Limits How Far Machines Can Shrink 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Oct 20, 2005University of Arizona physicists have directly measured how close speeding atoms can come to a surface before the atoms' wavelengths change. |
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Oil Firms Under Pressure From Consumers
Washington (UPI) Nov 01, 2005Major oil firms together amassed a staggering $32.8 billion in net income during the third quarter, as gas prices top $3 a gallon. The figure includes earnings from ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch/Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips. The announcement of record profits was attacked by critics and even some conventional allies. Bush Unveils U.S. Flu Readiness Plan 
Bethesda MD (UPI) Nov 01, 2005President George W. Bush has outlined a long-awaited national preparedness plan for pandemic influenza, asking Congress for $7.1 billion in emergency spending to boost the country's readiness for an outbreak that could include avian flu. Modeling Of Long-Term Fossil Fuel Consumption Shows 14.5 Degree Hike 
Livermore CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar 14.5 degrees warmer than current day. Insect Slows Mount St Helens Recovery 
Seattle (UPI) Nov 01, 2005When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it destroyed every living thing around it - and now scientists say a small insect is slowing the recovery process. |
US, Japan Boost BMD Partnership
Washington (UPI) Nov 01, 2005Top-level U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to boost their information-sharing on ballistic missile defense. The agreement also calls on both countries to step up arrangements for joint information-gathering activities concerning missile defense systems. AFRL Develop Non-Lethal Laser Weapon 
Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 01, 2005A laser technology being developed by Air Force Research Lab employees at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., will be the first man-portable, non-lethal deterrent weapon intended for protecting troops and controlling hostile crowds. Micro Air Vehicle Will Battle With Soldiers Schofield Barracks HI (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 
While on a dismounted patrol along a rocky dirt path, soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, stayed alert of their surroundings as they made their way to the Military Operations in Urban Terrain site here.Britain Still Needs Nuclear Arms: Reid 
London (AFP) Nov 01, 2005British Defence Secretary John Reid on Tuesday rejected suggestions that terrorism has rendered Britain's nuclear weapons "redundant," as the government faces a decision on whether to renew its nuclear arsenal. |
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