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NASA Unveils FY 2007 Budget Request
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
NASA has unveiled a proposed budget for fiscal year 2007 that strongly promotes the Bush administration's long-term goals for human space exploration, while requesting modest increases for or postponing the scheduled start of robotic missions. The request also redirects aeronautical research and reinforces the administration's determination to retire the space shuttle fleet within five years and extract U.S. involvement in the International Space Station.

  
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Spirit Completes Fourth Mile On Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
Spirit is healthy and continues to make progress toward "Home Plate" after driving more than 150 meters (492 feet), taking images, making atmospheric observations, and analyzing geology.

Hardened Lava Meets Wind on Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 6, 2006
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to capture this jagged mini-landscape on a rock mission scientists have called "GongGong." Measuring only 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across, its surface records two of the most important and violent forces in the history of Mars - volcanoes and wind.

Lockheed Martin-Built Echostar X Satellite Ready For Launch
Newtown PA (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
The EchoStar X telecommunications satellite is ready for launch Feb. 8 aboard a Sea Launch Zenit launch vehicle provided by Sea Launch Company. EchoStar X is the first in a series of seven satellite launches planned this year for Lockheed Martin.

Highlights Of The NASA FY 2007 Budget Request
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
NASA's proposed fiscal year 2007 budget calls for a total of $16.8 billion in funding, or a 3.2 percent increase over last year's request. The overall percentage change, the agency said in its budget document, does not include a comparison with the $371.0 million in emergency appropriations provided by Congress in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Northrop Names Thornton UK Exec Director
London, UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2006
Northrop Grumman Corporation has appointed Graham K. Thornton to lead the company's growing business activities in its newly consolidated United Kingdom office located in London, effective immediately.

Panspermia - A Radiating Experience
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
In this interview with Astrobiology Magazine, Gerda Horneck of the German Aerospace Center discusses the effects of space radiation on life. She has spent her career studying the controversial concept of Panspermia � that life could be transported between different planets by meteorites.

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JSAT Selects ILS Proton To Launch JCSAT-11 Satellite
Mclean VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
JSAT Corporation of Japan has contracted with International Launch Services (ILS) for launch of its JCSAT-11 satellite on a Proton Breeze M vehicle in 2007. The companies announced the deal today at the Satellite 2006 conference in Washington, D.C. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Russian Experts Pleased With Brazilian Space Program
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
Russian experts have largely praised the progress of Brazil's space program after checking preparations for the maiden voyage of the South American country's first astronaut.

Rocket Racing League Announces Mark-1 X-Racer Team
New York (SPX) Feb 05, 2006
The Rocket Racing League, an aerospace sports and entertainment organization that combines the competition of racing with the excitement of rocketry, today announced the selection of Leading Edge Rocket Racing, as its first independent race team.

Russian Rocket To Orbit Arab Satellite February 28
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
The launch of the Proton-M Russian carrier rocket with the Arab communications satellite ArabSat 4A has been scheduled for February 28 at 8:10 p.m. GMT at the Baikonur Space Center, the Russian Federal Space Agency said Monday.

New Outer Planet Is Larger Than Pluto
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2006
Claims that the Solar System has a tenth planet are bolstered by the finding by a group led by Bonn astrophysicists that this alleged planet, announced last summer, and tentatively named 2003 UB313, is bigger than Pluto.

Antarctic Krill Provide Carbon Sink In Southern Ocean
Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
New research on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), a shrimp-like animal at the heart of the Southern Ocean food chain, reveals behaviour that shows that they absorb and transfer more carbon from the Earth's surface than was previously understood. The results are published this week in the journal Current Biology.

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