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NASA to take close look at Endeavour shield damage
Washington (AFP) Aug 12, 2007Astronauts on the International Space Station on Sunday are to examine and measure a troublesome gash in the shuttle Endeavour's heat shield, by means of a camera and a laser atop a robotic arm. The 56-square-centimeter (nine-square-inch) gouge near a landing gear hatch was apparently made by a piece of ice that broke off the shuttle's external fuel tank 58 seconds after Wednesday's launch f ... more Astronauts conduct spacewalk as NASA analyzes shuttle damage 
Washington (AFP) Aug 11, 2007NASA on Saturday attempted to gauge the extent of ice damage on the space shuttle Endeavour's heat shield, as two astronauts successfully completed the first spacewalk of the shuttle mission. Mission specialists Rick Mastracchio of the United States and Canadian Dave Williams spent six hours, 17 minutes installing and activating a new, 1.58-ton segment for the International Space Station that the Endeavour had delivered. ... more China Plans To Survey 'Every Inch' Of Moon 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 10, 2007China plans to survey all of the moon's surface before eventually bringing bits of the planet back to Earth, state media reported Friday. "We would like to survey every inch of the moon's surface," Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of the China's moon exploration project, was quoted as saying on the website of Chinese News Service. Ouyang, speaking at a conference in southwestern China this ... more Three-Tonne Meteorite Stolen In Russia 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 10, 2007Russian police were combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Friday for a three-tonne meteorite that has disappeared from under the nose of its keepers. The giant rock was stolen from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, news agency Interfax reported. "It winds up tha ... more Endeavour Mission Hit By Apparent Shuttle Damage 
Washington (AFP) Aug 10, 2007NASA detected an apparent gouge on shuttle Endeavour's heat shield during a routine inspection Friday, after the orbiter docked with the International Space Station. A piece of ice struck the shuttle shortly after Wednesday's liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, leaving what appears to be a three square inch gouge near the hatch of one of the shuttle's landing gear ... more |
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Iqaluit, Canada (AFP) Aug 10, 2007Canada will build its first Arctic deep-sea port to bolster its disputed claims to the famed Northwest Passage and Arctic seabed, believed to hold oil and gas riches, its prime minister said Friday. An old dock and gravel runway at the abandoned lead and zinc mining town of Nanisivik, Baffin Island, would be refurbished to re-supply new Arctic patrol vessels, said Prime Minister Stephen Harp ... more Arctic sea ice 'lowest in recorded history': scientist 
Washington (AFP) Aug 10, 2007Sea ice in the northern hemisphere has plunged to the lowest levels ever measured, a US Arctic specialist said Friday, adding that it was likely part of the long-term trend of polar ice melt driven by global warming. University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana Arctic climate expert William Chapman told AFP that Arctic sea ice had plunged to new lows some 30 days before the normal point of the an ... more Extreme weather? Sure. Blame global warming? Not so fast 
Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2007Massive floods, blistering heat waves and bizarre cold snaps since the start of the year may not be the result of climate change, but extreme weather has become more frequent, some scientists say. The UN's World Meteorological Organisation has reported on findings that "there is an increasing trend in extreme events observed during the last 50 years." It adds that "weather and climate ar ... more Spectre of hunger looms over flood-hit India 
Madhubani, India, Aug 11, 2007 Senior bureaucrat Nibha Thakur ran short of cash as she shopped for vegetables in India's eastern Bihar state, where severe floods have pushed basic food prices beyond the reach of millions. "Survival is now a major issue," said Thakur, lugging a bagful of potatoes she had just purchased at four times their cost last month. "We may just have to do with boiled rice in the coming days as e ... more Floods, landslides kill 19 in northwest China 
Beijing, Aug 11, 2007 Nineteen people were killed and 37 missing after violent rainstorms triggered floods in northwest China, state media reported Saturday. The rainstorms, which started to hit the southeastern part of Shaanxi province Monday, destroyed homes and ruined crops, causing 280 million yuan (37 million dollars) in damages, a provincial flood control headquarters official told Xinhua news agency. T ... more |
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Helsinki (AFP) Aug 10, 2007Construction of Finland's new nuclear reactor, the world's first third-generation plant, is now more than 18 months behind schedule owing to fresh building problems, Finnish energy company TVO said on Friday. The engineering companies behind the project, France's Areva and Germany's Siemens, have informed TVO that the commercial launch of the Olkiluoto 3 reactor could be delayed until 2011, ... more India's PM dares left to withdraw support over US nuclear deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 11, 2007India's prime minister has dared the government's communist allies to withdraw their support if they are unhappy with the landmark Indo-US nuclear technology deal, a report said Saturday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh insisted in an interview published in the Calcutta-based Telegraph newspaper that the civilian nuclear agreement with Washington will not be renegotiated. "I told them it i ... more Japan nuclear plant hit by arson wave 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 9, 2007A Japanese nuclear plant was hit Thursday by the latest in a series of suspicious small-scale fires, the operator said, amid rising public concern about the country's nuclear industry. Six suspected arson incidents have been reported since July 3 at the Tomari nuclear power plant, on the southern tip of Japan's northern Hokkaido island. "We found the scorched remains of toilet paper toda ... more Helping Phoenix Land 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 10, 2007The Phoenix Mars Lander launched on Saturday, August 4, beginning a journey to never-explored regions of the Red Planet to search for frozen water beneath the Martian surface. What it discovers will help scientists determine if Mars could support life. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. are working together with the University o ... more Astronauts To Conduct Study Of Bacterial Growth In Space 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2007When space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space yesterday, it took along a common microorganism normally found in the upper respiratory tract of approximately 40 percent of the healthy human population. The experiment, Streptococcus pneumoniae Expression of Genes in Space (SPEGIS), part of the STS-118 space shuttle mission launched Aug. 8, 2007, will investigate the effects of the space environ ... more
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