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China offers public chance to view first moon launch
Beijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2007China is offering 2,000 tickets to view the launch of the country's first lunar mission, the Chang'e 1 probe satellite, a company said Friday. Only Chinese nationals are allowed to buy the tickets, priced at 800 yuan (107 dollars) each, Yang Pei, a spokeswoman for the ticket agency, Chengdu Chang'e Benyue Co. Ltd., told AFP. Viewers can choose from three viewing points, with two located ... more Russian Soyuz craft docks with ISS 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2007A Soyuz space craft carrying a Malaysian, a Russian and a US astronaut docked Friday with the International Space Station (ISS), an official at ground control outside Moscow said. "The Soyuz docked with the ISS (at 1450 GMT)," ground control spokesman Nikolai Kruchkov told AFP. The hatch connecting the Soyuz and ISS was to open at about 1630 GMT, allowing the three to enter the permanently i ... more Krasnoyarsk Hosts GLONASS Development Conference 
Krasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Oct 15, 2007The Reshetnev Research and Production Association of Applied Mechanics (Reshetnev NPO PM) in Zheleznogorsk near Krasnoyarsk is hosting a national scientific conference entitled Navigation Satellite Systems and Their Practical Role in Modern Life reports Itar-Tass. Taking part in the conference are top managers and leading specialists of space companies, representatives of the Defense Ministry an ... more New Lakes Discovered On Titan 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Newly assembled radar images from Cassini provide the best views of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Saturn's moon Titan. A new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes. The southern region images were beamed back after a flyby on 2 October in which a prime goal was the hunt for lakes at the south pole. A new mosaic image comprised from seven Titan fly-bys over the las ... more Electromagnetic Wormhole Possible With Invisibility Technology 
Rochester NY (SPX) Oct 14, 2007The team of mathematicians that first created the mathematics behind the "invisibility cloak" announced by physicists last October has now shown that the same technology could be used to generate an "electromagnetic wormhole." In the study, which is to appear in the Oct. 12 issue of Physical Review Letters, Allan Greenleaf, professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester, and his coautho ... more |
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Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Oct 14, 2007National Aeronautics and Space Administration managers and scientists were considering delaying the scheduled Oct. 23 launch of space shuttle Discovery. While the shuttle's STS-120 astronauts practiced for launch this week, shuttle program managers were preparing for next Tuesday's Flight Readiness Review. NASA said one topic being discussed involved reinforcing carbon on Discovery's leading edg ... more Partnership In Space 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 15, 2007October has brought welcome news. NASA administrator Michael Griffin, on a visit to Moscow, said he looked forward to Russians and Americans flying together to the Moon next decade. International projects, he said, were better paying than national ones. Meanwhile, Russian-American space cooperation has a history to celebrate. In May 1972, the two superpowers agreed to join forces for progress. S ... more First Woman Station Commander Arrives For Historic Spaceflight 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2007NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson arrived at the International Space Station Friday to begin her tenure as the first woman to command a station mission. Whitson, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysian Spaceflight Participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor docked their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft to the station at 10:50 a.m. EDT. The crew launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmod ... more Reaper Aids Commanders On Battlefield 
Washington DC (AFNS) Oct 15, 2007The Air Force announced Oct. 11 that the MQ-9 Reaper, the service's new hunter-killer unmanned aerial vehicle, is now flying operational missions in Afghanistan. The Reaper has completed 12 missions since its inaugural flight there Sept. 25, averaging about one sortie per day. Capable of striking enemy targets with on-board weapons, the Reaper has conducted close-air support and intelligence, su ... more Boeing Advanced Military Satellite Begins On-Orbit Checkout 
Schriever AFB CO (AFNS) Oct 15, 2007Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron and contractors with Boeing Corporation took over early-orbit operations on Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Vehicle 1 from a Boeing facility in El Segundo, Calif., approximately 30 minutes after it launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Oct. 10. The teaming gives 3rd SOPS Airmen an opportunity to become acquainted with WGS during its ... more |
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Woods Hole MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host a public forum next week to discuss the pros and cons of "iron fertilization" of the oceans as a means to mediate global warming. The forum, entitled "Ocean Fertilization: Ironing Out Uncertainties in Climate Engineering," is a public follow-up to an interdisciplinary science workshop conducted at WHOI in September. ... more Gore Nobel win shows up Bush: US press 
Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2007US newspapers Saturday hailed Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against climate change, saying it showed up failings of President George W. Bush in the seven years since he beat Gore to the White House. "For more than 20 years, Mr. Gore persisted in the face of intense skepticism and criticism with his warnings about the impact of global warming on the planet," the Washington Post wr ... more Philippines attempts to sell deadly volcanoes to tourists 
Santa Juliana, Philippines (AFP) Oct 14, 2007Rickety old jeeps barrel through a dry northern Philippines riverbed, setting off a dust storm that coats the visitors bouncing around on the back seat. The landscape around Mount Pinatubo is evolving again 16 years after a gigantic volcanic eruption killed more than 1,500 people and sent a cloud of ash into the atmosphere cooling world temperatures for years. The fine sand deposited by ... more Stem Cell Nuclei Are Soft Hard Drives 
Union Town PA (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that the nuclei of human stem cells are particularly soft and flexible, rather than hard, making it easier for stem cells to migrate through the body and to adopt different shapes, but ultimately to put human genes in the correct nuclear �sector�+/- for proper access and expression. Researchers pulled cell nuclei into microscopic gl ... more Asking The Wrong Questions On Global Warming 
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Public discussion over global warming is often caught in a vortex of misinformation perpetuated by extreme forces who say it's all just a big hoax. This often causes the most relevant scientific questions to get lost, suggests Washington state climatologist Philip Mote, who has been working for years to understand climate changes brought about by human activity. What we should be talking about w ... more
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