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Space Tourism Lures A Rising Number Of US Entrepreneurs
Washington (AFP) Mar 23, 2006Space tourism has caught the imagination of US business leaders, some of whom already have plans to serve what they say may be a multi-billion-dollar industry in a couple of decades. JPL Performs First Two-Antenna Uplink Experiment 
Mojave Desert CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2006For the first time ever, NASA's Deep Space Network has used a pair of smaller antennas to successfully send two simultaneous signals to a spacecraft in deep space that were combined at the spacecraft to yield greater signal power. SMART-1 Spies Tectonic 'Wrinkles' in Crater De Gasparis 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 22, 2006ESA's Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment aboard its SMART-1 spacecraft has captured an image of Crater De Gasparis that shows patterns mission scientists have labeled tectonic wrinkles. |
NASA Is 'Three For Three' In Successful ST5 Launch
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Mar 22, 2006NASA's Space Technology 5 mission got underway without a hitch Wednesday when an L-1011 aircraft dropped a compact Pegasus rocket from its payload bay and Pegasus lifted three micro-satellites into polar orbit. Carnegie Scientists Fine-Tuning Methods For Stardust Analysis 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2006Carnegie's researchers are studying their first Stardust sample with a brand new, $2.8 million NanoSIMS ion probe. This instrument can reveal the chemical makeup of a sample by vaporizing tiny target areas with a stream of ions, allowing an accurate count of the atoms emitted. Ideas On Gas-Giant Planet Formation Take Shape 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2006Rocky planets such as Earth and Mars are born when small particles smash together to form larger, planet-sized clusters in a planet-forming disk, but researchers are less sure about how gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn form. |
Three Moons, Rings And A Phantom Saturn
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 22, 2006NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured three moons at once as they hurtle around Saturn. In the background, Saturn's night side covers the more distant portion of the rings, betraying the presence of the unseen gas-giant planet. Space Tool Aids Fight For Clean Drinking Water 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 23, 2006According to the UN, safe drinking water remains inaccessible for about 1.1 billion people in the world. To address this global dilemma, the UN Millennium Development pledged at the World Summit in Johannesburg in 2002 to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. European Space Camp In The Land Of The Midnight Sun 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 23, 2006If you are interested in space and science, aged between 17 and 20 and would enjoy the experience of launching your own rocket, then apply to take part in this summer's European Space Camp, to be held in northern Norway at the Andoya Rocket Range. |
New York School Districts Install GPS Tracking Systems in Buses
Warrenville IL (SPX) Mar 23, 2006Cutting-edge technology is making it easier for transportation directors to keep track of some school buses in New York. With the help of a global-positioning satellite (GPS) system installed in each of the school buses for a pilot testing program, school officials can locate exactly where their buses are at all times. CompuPrint SteP Tech Accurately Predicts Hydrocarbons Location 
New York NY (SPX) Mar 23, 2006CompuPrint has announced that the Company's first U.S. exploration effort, located within 1,280 acres in LaSalle County, Texas, has reached the target depth for the well and was logged by Schlumberger on March 17, 2006. VLT Finds Very Cool Brown Dwarf In The Neighborhood 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 22, 2006Astronomers have discovered a unique brown dwarf located, relatively speaking, right in the solar neighborhood. |
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