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ISS Crew Photographs Eclipse
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 29, 2006The crew of the International Space Station captured images of Wednesday's total solar eclipse as they witnessed the spectacle from their unique vantage point 230 miles (370 kilometers) above Earth. NASA also transmitted video of the eclipse from the station on its NASA TV Video File. NASA Eclipse Coverage Wows World's Web Watchers 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2006NASA gave people around the world a safe front-row seat to Wednesday's total solar eclipse. Along with its partners, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Exploratorium, the space agency provided a streaming Webcast showing the eclipse. Cassini Detects Four Tiny Saturn Moonlets Among The Rings 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 29, 2006Cornell University astronomers report finding four small, embedded moonlets among propeller-shaped disturbances in Saturn's A ring � a finding that suggests the planet�s ring system could harbor millions more such objects. |
Exploring The Beginning Of Existence
Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 30, 2006Looking back 13.7 billion years, astronomers have collected data that tells us, with greater precision than ever before, what happened in the first two-trillionths of a second after the big bang. Chicxulub Didn't Kill The Dinosaurs 
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 30, 2006A new study of melted rock ejected far from the Yucatan's Chicxulub impact crater bolsters the idea that the famed impact was too early to have caused the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Space Adventures Chooses Singaporean Venue And Russian Vehicle Producer 
Moscow, Russia (RIA) Mar 30, 2006At sea, in air, and in most remote deserts, tourism has long become a gold mine. Now the farthest and the most dangerous desert of all, outer space, is poised to open its doors to tourists an inch. And the Russians are making the keys. |
Cassini Captures Persistent Southern Saturnian Storm
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2006NASA's Cassini spacecraft looked toward Saturn and its moon Tethys on Feb. 18, and saw a large and powerful storm continuing to rage in the planet's southern hemisphere. Prometheus Pulls On The Passing Particles Of Saturn's F Ring 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 30, 2006The rings around all the giant planets in our Solar System are thought to be stabilised by small "shepherd moons" that orbit in or near the rings and stabilize them by gravitational influences. SpaceDev To Design Complex Nanosatellite For USAF Research Lab 
Poway CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2006SpaceDev has been awarded a $1.25 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, for the preliminary design of a nanosatellite capable of independently providing localized Space Situational Awareness of the local space environment of a host satellite. |
NASA Studies Spaceflight From Under The Sea
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 29, 2006NASA will send three astronauts and a Cincinnati doctor under the ocean off the Florida Keys next month to test space-medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. ESA Invites Designs For Mars UAV 
Noordwijk the Netherlands (SPX) Mar 29, 2006ESA has invited aerospace students to submit ideas for an unmanned aerial vehicle suitable for exploring Mars. The agency said the best entries will win a place at the Euroavia Design Workshop to be held at the agency's Erasmus User Centre this July. Lockheed Martin To Design Mars Science Lab Aeroshell 
Denver CO (SPX) Mar 30, 2006Lockheed Martin has been awarded a preliminary design and concept study start-up contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aeroshell system. Lockheed Martin and NASA will soon enter negotiations to finalize the value of the contract. |
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