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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007NASA plans to send humans back to the moon, and eventually to Mars. But humans and the food they eat are chock full of microbial contaminants. Figuring out how to keep that contamination in check is the job of Dr. Cassie Conley, NASA's acting planetary protection officer. In this, the third and final part of Astrobiology Magazine's interview with Conley, she explains that, sometimes, it's okay ... more Full Set Of Jupiter Close-Approach Data Reaches Home 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Like countless others before it, the data packet rode a radio signal more than 500 million miles from the New Horizons spacecraft to Earth, filtering through NASA's largest antennas late last week to mission and science operations center computers in Maryland and Colorado. But this particular data - infrared scans of Jupiter's day-night boundary - were special for another reason: they were the l ... more AeroAstro Completes Preliminary Design Review For STP-SIV Spacecraft 
Ashburn VA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007AeroAstro, along with prime contractor Ball Aerospace and Technologies, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the DoD Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program. Ball Aerospace and Technologie (BATC) and AeroAstro were awarded the Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract in 2006, for up to six vehicles, with the first vehicle contract valued ... more It Takes A Rocket Scientist 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 05, 2007A graduate of Saint Louis University will serve as the flight director for NASA's first space shuttle mission of 2007. Kelly Beck, a native of Cahokia, Ill., and a 1988 graduate of SLU's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, will oversee the flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. Atlantis is targeted for launch at 6:38 p.m. (CDT) Friday, June ... more Atlantis Astronauts Ready After Long Wait 
Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Jun 04, 2007Astronauts set to take off from Florida on the shuttle Atlantis are determined to remember the mission, because it could be the last of their careers. Lee Archambault, a 20-year Air Force test pilot and longtime astronaut, has yet to fly into space, The Miami Herald reported. If all goes smoothly this week Archambault will experience his first journey into space. ... more |
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London (AFP) Jun 04, 2007Russia must decide if it wants positive relations with the West, Britain said Monday after President Vladimir Putin warned of a new Cold War-style arms race. Putin said Sunday that Russia would have to respond if the United States built a planned anti-missile defence shield near Russia's borders and warned it would point its missiles at European targets. British Prime Minister Tony Blair's ... more The G8 Meltdown 
Washington (UPI) June 04, 2007This week's Group of Eight summit in Germany may be the last, or almost the last of its kind. When this process began in the mid-1970s, the five founding members of the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Britain were without question the world's richest and most important industrial democracies. Italy and Canada were then brought into the process to make it the G7, and Russia in the ... more Lockheed Martin Completes Significant System Design Milestone On TMOS Program 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Lockheed Martin has completed a successful System Design Review (SDR) of the TSAT Mission Operations System (TMOS) with the U.S. Air Force. The two-day event concluded the system review of TMOS architecture and requirements allocation for this critical element of the Global Information Grid. "The completion of the System Design Review marks a critical milestone for the program while building ... more Indonesia Threatened By Rising Sea Levels 
Jakarta (AFP) Jun 04, 2007Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change as global warming threatens to raise sea levels and flood coastal farming areas, threatening food security, a report released Monday said. The report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's Department for International Development said global warming could increase temperatures, shorten the rainy season and intensify rainfall ... more Global Warming House Committee Visits Greenland 
Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland (SPX) Jun 05, 2007While most Americans are enjoying the beach or barbeque at this time of year, Chairman Edward Markey of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the Select Committee on an international fact-finding mission on global warming impacts and solutions during Memorial Day weekend. The bipartisan delegation arrived in Gr ... more |
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Columbia MD (SPX) Jun 05, 2007LPP Combustion has demonstrated that the patented LPP Combustion System will allow soybean oil-based biodiesel to burn as cleanly as natural gas, with no net greenhouse gas emissions. During testing this month, LPP Combustion obtained emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter comparable to natural gas level emissions using a commercial "state-of-the-ar ... more GE Investing To Expland Wind Energy Portfolio 
Sweetwater TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2007GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric, has agreed to invest in its biggest wind farm, the 241-megawatt Sweetwater 4 facility, along with a sister project in Texas. The announcement was made today at Universal Studios California at GE's "Green is Universal" exhibition, a celebration of GE customers' improvements in operating and environmental performance. GE Energy Financ ... more A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jun 05, 2007University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers and radars. "We are converting waste heat to electricity in an efficient, simple way by using sound," says Orest Symko, a University of Utah physics professor who leads the e ... more Sandia And Boeing Collaborate To Develop Aircraft Fuel Cell Applications 
Albuquerque, NM (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Sandia National Laboratories and Boeing are collaborating on a project looking at the feasibility of using a hydrogen-powered fuel cell for providing backup power in aircraft. Commercial and military aircraft use a variety of techniques for providing backup electrical power to critical subsystems during emergency scenarios. Depending on the aircraft, these may include dedicated battery power, in ... more Hybrid Solar Lighting Earns National Technology Transfer Award 
Oak Ridge, TN (SPX) Jun 05, 2007An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed technology collecting sunlight connected to special indoor light fixtures has earned an Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. The award was presented recently to representatives of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the consortium's annual convention in Arling ... more
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