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Astronauts To Ride Rails In Emergency
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 05, 2007As NASA revamps Launch Complex 39B to host the new Orion spacecraft and Ares I rocket of the Constellation Program, engineers are preparing to install a new kind of departure system to evacuate astronauts. The agency calls it the Orion Emergency Egress System, but it is fundamentally a group of multi-passenger cars on a set of rails reminiscent of a roller coaster. Its purpose is to move astrona ... more ESA Pays Tribute To 50 Years Of Space 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 05, 2007Fifty years ago today, on the night of 4 October, the first 'beep-beep' from Sputnik fell from the heavens and marked the beginning of a new era for the human race. Satellites and space probes have dramatically changed our way of living, they have turned the world into a global village where an unprecedented wealth of information is at hand anywhere, anytime. The world has shrunk, and our percep ... more Questioning Habitable Planets 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007In May 2007, Victoria Meadows, Principal Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology's Spitzer Science Center, presented a lecture at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the final part of this six-part edited series, she answers audience questions about habitable worlds. Q: Wouldn't a magnetic field be necessary for a habitable planet? ... more Russia To Carry Out Up To 20 Space Projects By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 05, 2007Under the Federal space program for 2006-2015 Russia plans to conduct over 20 scientific projects, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) head Anatoly Perminov told Thursday "In particular, we have plans to build special-purpose spacecraft fitted with scientific equipment. The research will focus on fields like astrophysics, and planetary science," he said. He said that planned flights includ ... more Russia marks Sputnik anniversary 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Russia on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the tiny satellite whose crackly beeps launched the Space Race between the Cold War superpowers. "We Were First," trumpeted a headline in the popular Izvestia daily. "At 22:28 Moscow time on October 4, 1957, humanity entered a new space age. The Soviet Union sent the Earth's first artificial satellite into orbit." ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2007While the United States has hailed the latest deal to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes as a big step forward, analysts warned Thursday that total disarmament remained a very dim prospect. Doubts remain over whether the secretive regime in Pyongyang is genuinely prepared to give up its atomic ambitions, or whether it is cunningly stringing the world along in return for energy aid ... more Warning issued as Typhoon Krosa heads towards Taiwan 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Weathermen in Taiwan on Thursday urged ships and residents to take precautions against Typhoon Krosa which is gaining momentum and heading towards the island. "Typhoon Krosa is gaining strength and expanding its radius while approaching Taiwan," the official Central Weather Bureau said in its first warning of the typhoon at 5:30 pm (0930 GMT.) It called on ships sailing off Taiwan to hei ... more Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle 
LaJolla CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Electrical cables, garden hoses and strands of holiday lights seem to get themselves hopelessly tangled with no help at all. Now research initiated by an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego has resulted in the first model of how knots form. The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigated the likelihood of kn ... more Geologists Recover Rocks Yielding Unprecedented Insights Into San Andreas Fault 
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007For the first time, geologists have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault, the infamous rupture that runs 800 miles along the length of California. Never before have scientists had available for study rock samples from deep inside one of the actively moving tectonic plate-bounding faults responsible for the world's most damaging earthquakes. Now, ... more ORNL Resilience Plan To Help Tennessee, Mississippi And South Carolina Communities Beat Disaster 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Oct 05, 2007A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change. The new Community and Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI) will be implemented in Gulfport, Miss., Memphis, and Charleston, S.C., to increase "resilience" - the ability to prepare for, respond to and quickly recover from ... more |
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Ky Hai Commune, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Typhoon Lekima smashed into central Vietnam overnight, flooding thousands of homes, disrupting air travel and leaving at least three people dead and 58 injured, officials said Thursday. Packing maximum sustained winds of 117 kilometres (72 miles) an hour, the typhoon made landfall in provinces where tens of thousands of people had been evacuated in advance. Two people drowned and a 13-ye ... more Indonesian villagers brace for potential volcanic eruption 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Indonesian residents living near a rumbling volcano in East Java have begun evacuation drills, officials said Thursday as they warned activity was increasing at the site. Volcanologists lifted an alert for Mount Kelut to the third of a four-level warning system last Sunday. Hiking the warning to the four level means scientists fear an eruption is imminent. "The volcano could erupt at any ... more Hall's Warehouse And DT Solar To Build The Largest US Corporate Solar Energy Installation 
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Oct 05, 2007DT Solar and Hall's Warehouse Corporation have announced an agreement to build a 2 MW solar electric power system to supply electricity to their facility in South Plainfield, New Jersey. When completed, this project will be the largest rooftop solar electric system serving a private company in the United States. The solar power system will be located in South Plainfield, NJ, on one of Hall ... more Scientists create transparent, thin plastic strong like steel 
Chicago (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Scientists have developed a transparent new plastic as strong as steel and as thin as a sheet of paper, according to a study published Thursday in Science magazine. Made out of clay and a non-toxic glue similar to that used in school classrooms, the composite plastic is biodegradable and requires very little energy to produce, lead researcher Nicholas Kotov said. "It's as green as you ca ... more Indonesia studies building record suspension bridge 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Indonesia is to begin studying the possibility of building a bridge which would have the longest suspended stretch in the world, an official said Thursday. Under proposal is a six-lane bridge which would be at least 29 kilometres (18 miles) long and link the earthquake-prone islands of Java and Sumatra, the official said. It would cross three islands dotting the strait, have two railway ... more
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