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The VSE Booster Switch Honolulu HI (SPX) May 21, 2006 
It's always amusing and sometimes frustrating to see NASA doing something I have suggested in these columns - usually after wasting millions of dollars and years of time on another option. Exactly that has happened with the boosters being designed as part of NASA's plan for manned missions to the Moon and Mars. |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Effects-Based Airpower And Space Power
Washington DC (AFNS) May 22, 2006The term effects-based operations (EBO) entered the military lexicon during the Gulf War of 1991 and has propagated widely since then. Initially some Air Force members used EBO to help explain that war's dramatically successful outcome. Discovery Has Reached The Launch Pad 
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 21, 2006Discovery has completed its journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center to Launch Pad 39B. NASA technicians will now prepare the space shuttle for its liftoff, still scheduled for sometime between July 1 and 19. US shuttle Discovery moves to launchpad 
Washington (AFP) May 19, 2006 A huge tractor Friday began moving the space shuttle Discovery toward its launchpad for a blastoff sometime between July 1 and 19, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. Russia And Kazakhstan To Develop New Launcher 
Moscow (RIAN) May 21, 2006Yuri Solomonov, director and general designer of the Moscow-based Institute of Heat Engineering, said his institute could start work on the Ishim air-launched space system by July 1, 2007. CONTENT PARTNERS
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Scientists say they have cleared technical hurdle in fusion research
Paris (AFP) May 21, 2006 Physicists working in the United States believe they have cracked an important problem facing man-made nuclear fusion, touted as the cheap, safe, clean and almost limitless energy source of the future. Scientist Dreams Of Us Revisiting The Moon 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 22, 2006Harrison "Jack" Schmitt is the only geologist to have gone prospecting on the moon. As a crew member of Apollo 17, he was also the last person to leave footprints in the lunar soil. Opportunity Sees Cobbles Between The Ripples 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 21, 2006As Opportunity continues to traverse from Erebus Crater toward Victoria Crater, NASA's rover is navigating along exposures of bedrock between large, wind-blown ripples. Robots Set To Bug Out On Us 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 22, 2006A pet dog sits on command, but nobody expects an insect to follow human instructions. So it may come as a surprise to learn that researchers recently succeeded in controlling cockroaches with tiny mobile robots. |
NOAA Weather Satellite Launch Set For Wednesday
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station FL (SPX) May 21, 2006NASA has announced it will launch NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N on Wednesday, May 24. GOES-N, designed to provide faster environmental and weather information to meteorologists and the public, is scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ISS crew adjust body clocks ahead of night-time space walk 
Moscow (AFP) May 20, 2006 The two crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) will move forward their daily routine by three hours a day to prepare for a night space walk on June 2, officials said Saturday. Deal signed on launch of first Malaysian astronaut 
Moscow (AFP) May 19, 2006 Officials from Russia's arms export agency and Malaysia's defence ministry signed a contract Friday on sending a Malaysian into space for the first time to stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the arms export agency Rosoboronexport said. |
Williams Tests SPHERES Aboard Space Station
Houston TX (SPX) May 21, 2006Jeff Williams, the International Space Station's current flight engineer, flew a miniature spacecraft around the pressurized Destiny module last week, NASA reported Friday. He was testing the flight control and autonomous docking characteristics that could be useful for eventually flying multiple full-scale spacecraft in formation. Lockheed Martin Solar X-Ray Imager Set For NOAA GOES-N Spacecraft 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) May 22, 2006The Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) instrument, designed and built by Lockheed Martin at its Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is ready for flight. ILC Dover To Develop CEV Airbags For NASA 
Frederica DE (SPX) May 21, 2006ILC Dover LP was awarded a 5-year IDIQ contract for advanced development of airbag landing attenuation systems for Earth entry capsules by NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA. |
AFRL Awards ISIS Contracts To Northrop Grumman
Rome NY (SPX) May 22, 2006The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently awarded two contracts, with a combined value in excess of $15.5 million, to Northrop Grumman in support of its "Integrated Sensor Is Structure (ISIS)" program. ISIS envisions a stratospheric airship operating as a surveillance platform more than 70,000 feet above the Earth. Major Concern If North Korea Launches Long-Range Missile 
Washington (AFP) May 19, 2006 The United States warned Friday that it would be a major international concern if North Korea launched a long-range missile, amid reports Pyongyang may be preparing to test-fire the weapon. Will North Korea Take A Lead From Libya 
Seoul (UPI) May 22, 2006Now that the United States has restored full diplomatic ties with Libya, will North Korea follow in the one-time rogue state's footsteps by giving up its nuclear ambitions to improve ties with Washington? |
CapRock Expands Disaster Satellite Services in Preparation For Hurricane Season
Houston (SPX) May 22, 2006Building on the success of its DR-250 disaster recovery service launched last year, CapRock Communications, a leading global satellite communications provider, is significantly expanding its disaster recovery product line for 2006. Extreme Events Challenge Chinese Weather Forecasters 
Beijing (XNA) May 22, 2006The increasingly extreme weather events are challenging meteorologists in China, although they successfully predicted the movement of typhoon Chanchu. Putting The Puzzle Of Life Together 
Uniontown PA (SPX) May 22, 2006Two laboratories at Penn State set out to show how an obscure undersea microbe metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar. What they found was not merely a previously unknown biochemical process--their discovery also became the inspiration for a fundamental new theory of the origin of life on Earth. |
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