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USC Concept Synthesis Studio Colonizes The Moon With Bugs
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A lucky nine graduate students, ranging from industry participants to foreign nationals, spent the evening presenting their concepts and projects for some of the parts needed to land objects and colonize with man the moon above. I say lucky in that the audience contained some great space minds who were wry with commentary. The Space Concepts Studio: Space Exploration Architectures event was ti ... more First Stop Moon. Next Stop, Mars 
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 19, 2007The distant red planet Mars has captured the imagination of humankind for generations. It has inspired novelists to write stories about its exploration and motivated scientists to find ways to make space travel there a viable possibility. Now, for the first time in Europe, scholars such as historians, philosophers and sociologists are banding together with space scientists to share their thought ... more China reveals space plans 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2007China on Thursday revealed its plans for space -- including space walking, spacecraft docking and the setting up of a space laboratory before 2010, state media reported. The government would also give priority to developing an earth observation system using satellites, aircraft and airships, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting a blueprint approved by the State Council, or the cabinet. ... more China Plans Ambitious Space Program Over Decade Ahead 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 19, 2007China plans to realize space-walking, spacecraft rendezvous and docking and set up a space laboratory, according to a blueprint approved by the State Council. Meanwhile, the government would also give priority to developing a satellite, aircraft and stratosphere airship-based high definition earth observation system, said a senior official with the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry ... more Chinese Taikonauts May Build Communist Party Branch In Space 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 19, 2007Chinese taikonauts (astronauts) may start a branch of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in space, said the country's first taikonaut Yang Liwei. China now has a 14-strong astronaut team. The team members, including Yang himself, are all CPC members. "If China has its own space station, the taikonauts on mission will carry out the regular activities of a CPC branch in space in the way we do on e ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2007After an eight-year run that gave astronomers a completely new perspective on the universe, NASA has concluded the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission. The satellite, known as FUSE, became inoperable in July when the satellite lost its ability to point accurately and steadily at areas of interest. NASA will terminate the mission Oct. 18. "FUSE accomplished all of its mission goals and ... more Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources Of Jets On Enceladus 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region. Members of Cassini's imaging team used two years' worth of pictures of the geologically active moon to locate the sour ... more Airbus US boss demands end to WTO "histrionics" 
Washington (AFP) Oct 18, 2007The United States and European Union should abandon their costly WTO feud over aircraft subsidies and negotiate a new trade pact, Airbus's US chief said Thursday. Allan McArtor, chairman of Airbus North America, also accused US rival Boeing of using "offensive and totally inappropriate" tactics in a bid to win a lucrative US Air Force tanker project. He said that then-Boeing boss Harry S ... more The Fantastic Skies Of Orphan Stars 
East Lansing MI (SPX) Oct 19, 2007What a view! It's late summer, after dark, and you're flat on your back in a sleeping bag watching the camp fire's last embers drift up to the heavens. Overhead a magnificent band of stars divides the night-it's the Milky Way. Now, imagine that scene doubled in brightness and beauty. No, that's not quite right. Imagine an entire galaxy of stars spinning overhead. The galaxy's blue-white core of ... more Space Shuttle Crew Arrives Friday 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 19, 2007As preparations for the launch of space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-120 enter the final days, the astronauts are due to arrive at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida midday on Friday. The countdown will begin at 2 p.m. EDT on Saturday, starting at the T-43 hour mark. This follows the detailed flight readiness review on Tuesday, after which NASA senior managers announced Oct. 23 as the of ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2007 Three Qassam missiles were fired at the Israeli border town of Sderot Wednesday and an Israeli soldier was injured. That made it a normal day for the citizens of Sderot. Sderot is clearly within the Green Line that marked the limits of Israel before the 1967 Six Day War. But that has not stopped Palestinian groups in neighboring Gaza from keeping up a regular bombardment of relatively l ... more US heeding Russia's concerns on missile defence: Putin 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 18, 2007The United States is beginning to take into account Russian concerns over the deployment of a US missile defence system in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. "Our latest contacts with our American colleagues show that... they are looking for solutions to the problem to remove our concerns," Putin said during a televised question-and-answer session in the Kremlin. ... more US says no missile defense review if Iran drops nuclear program 
Washington (AFP) Oct 18, 2007The United States said Thursday it would not review plans for a missile defense system in Europe if Iran gave up its sensitive uranium enrichment program. Any review of the controversial plan would occur only if there was a change in the overall threat posed by Iran, including from its missiles, the State Department said. It was clarifying remarks by Assistant Secretary of State Daniel F ... more Neandertals And Humans Share Key Changes To Language Gene 
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A new study published online on October 18th in Current Biology reveals that adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals. The finding reveals that the human form of the gene arose much earlier than scientists had estimated previously. It also raises the possibility that Neandertals possessed some of the prerequisi ... more Genetic Ancestral Testing Cannot Deliver On Its Promise 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007For many Americans, the potential to track one's DNA to a specific country, region or tribe with a take-home kit is highly alluring. But while the popularity of genetic ancestry testing is rising - particularly among African Americans - the technology is flawed and could spawn unwelcome societal consequences, according to researchers from several institutions nationwide, including the University ... more
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