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Russia To Launch International Space Lab In 2011
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 26, 2007Russia will launch an astrophysical space lab in 2011 from the Baikonur or Kourou (French Guiana) space center, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) said Friday. "Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov met in Moscow today with the head of the German Space Agency Ludwig Baumgarten. Germany plans to strengthen its space operation, including [through cooperation] with Russia," Igor Panarin s ... more NASA Assigns Crew For Shuttle Mission To Install Japanese Lab 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 26, 2007NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-124, targeted for launch in February 2008. The flight will deliver the Pressurized Module and robotic arm of the Japanese Experiment Module, known as "Kibo" (hope), to the International Space Station. Navy Cmdr. Mark E. Kelly will command the space shuttle Atlantis during the mission. Navy Cmdr. Kenneth T. Ham will serve as the pilot ... more Expedition 15 To ISS Approved Soyuz TMA-10 To Launch April 7 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 26, 2007The crew of the 15th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) has been approved and the fifth space tourist has been cleared to fly. The launch of the Russian Soyuz-TMA 10 spacecraft, carrying the 15th expedition and tourist Charles Simoni, an American of Hungarian origin, to the ISS from the Baikonur space center has been scheduled for April 7, 2007. ... more SpaceX Confirms Stage Bump On Demoflight 2 
Casper WY (SPX) Mar 23, 2007SpaceX chief Elon Musk has confirmed that Stages 1 and 2 collided on the second flight of the company's Falcon 1 small launch vehicle this week, and that this issue will need to be dealt with for the next launch. Musk has also revealed that Stage 1 was not recovered, due in part to a nonfunctioning GPS tracking device on the stage at liftoff. As described previously on SpaceDaily.com ... read more |
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The Next Great Earthquake
Troy NY (SPX) Mar 26, 2007The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and resulting tsunami are now infamous for the damage they caused, but at the time many scientists believed this area was unlikely to create a quake of such magnitude. In the March 23 issue of the journal Science, a geophysicist from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute urges the public and policy makers to consider all subduction-type tectonic boundaries to be "l ... more New Evidence Puts Snowball Earth Theory Out In The Cold 
LOndon UK (SPX) Mar 26, 2007The theory that Earth once underwent a prolonged time of extreme global freezing has been dealt a blow by new evidence that periods of warmth occurred during this so-called 'Snowball Earth' era. Analyses of glacial sedimentary rocks in Oman, published online today in Geology, have produced clear evidence of hot-cold cycles in the Cryogenian period, roughly 850-544 million years ago. The UK ... more Microfossils Unravel Climate History Of Tropical Africa 
Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Mar 26, 2007Scientists from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research obtained for the first time a detailed temperature record for tropical central Africa over the past 25,000 years. They did this in cooperation with a German colleague from the University of Bremen, The scientists developed an entirely new method to reconstruct the history of land temperatures based on the molecular fossi ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Envoys Seek New Bank To Settle North Korea Cash Dispute
Seoul (AFP) March 23, 2007Negotiators are trying to find a bank outside China to receive North Korea's frozen funds in an attempt to settle a banking dispute that has stalled nuclear disarmament talks, South Korea's envoy said Friday. The United States on Monday said it had cleared the way for the release of the 25 million dollars from a Macau bank, in an attempt to move the nuclear talks forward. But the designate ... more Flickers Of Hope In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) March 23, 2007The March 14 Los Angeles Times contained that rare bird, good news from Ramadi: The commander of U.S. troops in Iraq wanted some sweets, and nothing was going to stop him. Not even the fact that he was tramping through a neighborhood that only days ago had been teeming with snipers and al-Qaida fighters who would love nothing better that to say they had just shot Gen. David H. Petraeus. Wi ... more Top US Commander Plays Down China Threat 
Beijing (AFP) March 23, 2007The US military's top commander said here Friday that he did not believe China's armed forces were a threat and played down the prospects for hostilities in the Taiwan strait. Following complaints from Washington over China's rising military budget and a satellite-killing test, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said his four-day visit was aimed at boosting US-Sino ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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