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Historical First Lunar Video Disappear In Earth Bound Bureaucracy
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2006NASA no longer knows the whereabouts of the original tapes of man's first landing on the moon nearly 40 years ago, an official of the US space agency said Tuesday. "NASA is searching for the original tapes of the Apollo 11 spacewalk on July 21, 1969," said Ed Campion, a spokesman for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a Washington suburb. Hidden Milky Way Deuterium Found 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2006Scientists using NASA's Johns Hopkins University-operated Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite have learned that far more "heavy" hydrogen remains in our Milky Way galaxy than expected, a finding that could radically alter theories about star and galaxy formation. Surprising New Telescope Observations Shake Up Galactic Formation Theories 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 16, 2006A heavy form of hydrogen created just moments after the Big Bang has been found to exist in larger quantities than expected in the Milky Way, a finding that could radically alter theories about star and galaxy formation, says a new international study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
Rovers Look Forward to A Second Martian Spring
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2006Like the fabled tortoise that, in the race with the hare, moves slowly yet accomplishes much, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has continued to make progress little by little, while essentially running in place. The IAU Draft Definition Of Planets And Plutons 
Prague, Czech (SPX) Aug 16, 200616-August-2006, Prague The world's astronomers, under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), have concluded two years of work defining the difference between "planets" and the smaller "solar system bodies" such as comets and asteroids. A Backward Sunspot Near End Of Solar Cycle 23 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 16, 2006On July 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. On the sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward. "We've been waiting for this," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama. "A backward sunspot is a sign that the next solar cycle is beginning." |
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Planck Telescope Behaves Well In Cold Vacuum
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 16, 2006ESA's Planck space telescope was removed last week from the Large Space Simulator (LSS) at ESTEC, ESA's research and technology centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, after a thorough two-week test in temperatures down to -178 degrees Celsius. The test is an important milestone towards launch in 2008. Space Systems Loral Awarded Contract to Build Terrestar-2 Satellite 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2006Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications Inc., today announced that it has been awarded a contract to build the TerreStar-2 MSS (mobile satellite services) satellite for TerreStar Networks Inc. TerreStar's two satellite system, which includes the TerreStar-1 satellite currently under construction at SS/L, together with an Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC), is designed to provide next-generation, 2-GHz mobile voice and data communications, monitoring and messaging services throughout the United States and Canada. Rockwell Collins Introduces Tailwind 300 Sat TV 
Cedar Rapids IO, (SPX) Aug 15, 2006Rockwell Collins has unveiled Tailwind 300, its latest satellite television offering for business jets. The Tailwind 300 is ideal for the super mid-size and larger aircraft operating within the contiguous US. First delivery of the system is expected by mid-2007. |
Voyager 1 Hits 100 AU Marker Nearly 14 Hours Out
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2006Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means the spacecraft, which launched nearly three decades ago, will be 100 times more distant from the sun than Earth is. In more common terms, Voyager 1 will be about 15 billion kilometers (9.3 billion miles) from the sun. Insect Noses' The key To Cybernose Collaboration 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2006A new $4 million collaboration announced today will help scientists in their efforts to produce a new generation of electronic nose, the 'cybernose'. Researchers in the collaborative Cluster between The Australian National University, Monash University and CSIRO's Food Futures National Research Flagship are trying to understand how simple animals make sense of smells. NASA Ames Announces Change In Astrobiology Management 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2006Dr. Carl Pilcher, senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA Headquarters, Washington, has been appointed director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) based at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The appointment is effective Sept. 18, 2006. Pilcher succeeds Dr. Bruce Runnegar, who served as the third director of the NAI from 2003-2006. |
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