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Next Space Station Crew Selected
Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2006The International Space Station partners have named NASA astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin as the new crew members of the orbiting facility. NASA Extends Boeing Station Contract 
Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2006NASA announced Tuesday it has exercised $318 million in contract extension options and extended Boeing�s contract to support continued construction and operation of the International Space Station. NASA Astronaut Eileen Collins Retiring 
Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2006Astronaut Eileen Collins said Monday she is leaving NASA. Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle and the leader of Discovery's Return to Flight mission last year, said she plans to pursue private interests and spend more time with her family. |
Hitting Europa Hard Could Have A Real Impact
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 03, 2006Jupiter's moon Europa is one of the most intriguing places in the solar system to Astrobiologists. An icy shell overlies a deep water ocean, and tidal flexing from Jupiter's gravity may provide energy for life. Spirit Looks Back Up Husband Hill 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 02, 2006This field of sand ripples now separates Spirit from the slopes of Husband Hill, where NASA's rover will spend the Martin winter. It has been 200 sols, or Martian days, since Spirit started its descent from the top of the peak to its current position on a formation that mission scientists have named Low Ridge. Opportunity Encounters Rolling Ripples 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 02, 2006NASA's Mars rover Opportunity continues to cut southward across a plain marked by large sand ripples and a pavement of outcrop rock. |
Defence Minister Expedites Preparations For Launching Military Satellite
Moscow (SPX) May 03, 2006The Russian Defence Ministry have brought forward preparations for the launching of a Soyuz-V launch vehicle with a military satellite onboard. KazSat Satellite Delivered To Baikonur 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) May 02, 2006Russia's Khrunichev spacecraft center has delivered KazSat 1, Kazakhstan's first communications satellite, to Baikonur Cosmodrome for further preparations for its scheduled June 8 launch, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday. XTAR Begins Commercial Service On XTAR-LANT 
Rockville MD (SPX) May 02, 2006XTAR has reported that the second component of its X-band satellite network, XTAR-LANT, has completed in-orbit testing and has entered full commercial service, joining the XTAR-EUR satellite that entered service in April 2005. |
Lunar Dust Buster
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 02, 2006Ever get a fragile item packed in a box filled with Styrofoam peanuts? Plunge your hands into the foam peanuts to search for the item, and when you pull it out foam peanuts are clinging to your arms. Old Apollo Seismic Data Offers Clues To Lunar Meteoroid Impacts 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 03, 2006Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office. Successful Launch Of Swedish Maxus 7 Sounding Rocket 
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) May 02, 2006The sounding rocket Maxus 7 was successfully launched from the Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) launch facility at Esrange Space Center this morning at 06:16 UT and reached an apogee of 702 km which enabled 12 minutes of microgravity. |
New Lava Dome Grows On Top Of Indonesia's Rumbling Mount Merapi
Jakarta (AFP) May 03, 2006A new lava dome has formed at the peak of Indonesia's rumbling Mount Merapi volcano, reinforcing indications that it may soon erupt, scientists said Tuesday. The dome has been expanding since last Wednesday behind another dome that was formed in 1997, said Dewi Sri from the vulcanology office in the ancient cultural city of Yogyakarta, 30 km south of the volcano. A View Of Urban Sprawl From Outer Space 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 03, 2006Recent urban development in Los Angeles is less scattered than recent development in Boston. Miami is America's most compact big city and Pittsburgh is most sprawling. Tibet Meltdown Leading To Sandstorms In China 
Beijing (AFP) May 03, 2006Global warming is melting glaciers in China's Tibetan region at a rate of 7.0 percent annually, triggering drought, desertification and sandstorms in other regions, state press reported Tuesday. H5N1 Adapts To Summer, Water, Heat 
Oxford, England (UPI) May 03, 2006The H5N1 strain of the avian-influenza virus has mutated, say scientists, although the mutation is not the much-feared change that would make the virus more easily transmissible between humans, possibly causing a pandemic. |
Canadian Prime Minister Harper Defies Ballistic Missile Defense Critics
Washington (UPI) May 03, 2006Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to strengthen his country's NORAD defense pact ties with the United States has angered critics who believe it will lead to increased ballistic missile defense cooperation with Washington. Pakistan Says Nuclear Proliferation Chapter Over 
Islamabad (AFP) May 03, 2006Pakistan said Tuesday it would not allow any country or foreign agency to interrogate its recently freed nuclear scientists involved in proliferation as Islamabad considered the matter "closed". Iran Seeks To Win Over Gulf Arabs In Nuclear Row 
Abu Dhabi (AFP) May 03, 2006Iran's top national security official said on Tuesday he was confident Gulf Arab states would not side with the United States in its nuclear row with Tehran and accused Washington of seeking to create trouble. Air Force Studies German Fuse For Cruise Missile 
Washington (UPI) May 03, 2006A German-developed fuse that senses voids and counts layers is being evaluated for the U.S. Air Force Boeing Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile and US Navy Raytheon Tomahawk cruise missiles, to penetrate hardened and deeply buried bunkers, FlightInternational reported Tuesday. |
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