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Russia, Malaysia Ink Space Deal As Tourist Flight Prices Rise Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2006 
Russia has signed a contract to send a Malaysian astronaut into space in 2007, but future space tourists face a price increase, a Russian space agency official said Friday. Russia will send the Malaysian astronaut, thought to be a 34-year-old doctor, on board a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station as part of a $900-million contract signed in 2003 to supply the Asian country with 18 Russian multipurpose Su-30MKM air superiority fighters. The agency said the contract will allow it to start training two Malaysian astronauts, one of whom will be sent to the International Space Station next year - Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie and Faiz bin Khaleed, his backup. |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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NASA Defends Orion As GAO Warns About Long-Range Contracts
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2006At a Science Committee hearing last Thursday that examined the recent contract award to Lockheed Martin to build the space exploration vehicle that will ferry astronauts to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, the head of the exploration program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) promised to provide the Committee with frequent updates on the program's progress to enable robust Congressional oversight of the multibillion dollar development project. UP Aerospace Recovers Payloads After Inaugural Launch From New Mexico's Spaceport America 
Hartford CN (SPX) Oct 02, 2006UP Aerospace, Inc., reports it has found the landing site of its unmanned SpaceLoft XL vehicle. Company personnel are in the process of recovering the payloads and returning them back to their launch partners. Eric Knight, CEO of UP Aerospace, said, "Our recovery efforts began almost immediately after the launch and have continued around the clock. The vehicle came down in very challenging terrain, complicated by the unusual levels of vegetation caused by the record-setting monsoon rains this summer. Smoking Out Space Fires 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 02, 2006If you've ever burned your dinner, you know how startling a smoke alarm can be. Now, imagine you're 220 miles away from Earth in an orbiting lab when the alarm sounds. Fires are no laughing matter on Earth, but in space they could be even more devastating. |
New Camera Gives Dramatic New Views Of Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2006Mars is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution camera ever to orbit Mars is returning low-altitude images to Earth from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Rocks and surface features as small as armchairs are revealed in the first image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since the spacecraft maneuvered into its final, low-altitude orbital path. The imaging of the red planet at this resolution heralds a new era in Mars exploration. The image of a small fraction of Mars' biggest canyon reached Earth on Friday. APL-Built Mineral-Mapping Imager Begins At Mars 
Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 02, 2006The most powerful mineral-mapper ever sent to Mars has opened its protective cover and is about to begin its search for hints of past water on the red planet. The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), designed and built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., is one of six science instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Victoria Marks Giant Cake For 1000 Sols On Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2006On Mars, over the next few weeks, two robotic explorers will reach 1000 sols a piece. At a real cost that's now under $350,000 a day, the 2004 Mars Rovers have been an engineering and scientific triumph beyond all expectation. And crowning the success of the missions has been the arrival of Opportunity at the rim of "Victoria Crater", and the awakening of Spirit from it's long sebatical during the Martian winter. |
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Station Crews Rotate After Hectic Few Weeks
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 02, 2006After six months aboard the International Space Station that included arrival of two space shuttle missions, resumption of construction of the orbiting laboratory and the restoration of a three-member crew, Expedition 13 landed at 9:13 p.m. EDT in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA station science officer Jeff Williams landed in their Soyuz TMA 8 spacecraft about 50 miles northeast of Arkalyk. Russian recovery forces and NASA officials arrived at the site shortly after the spacecraft touched down. Anatomy Of A Planet-Forming Disc Around A Star More Massive than the Sun 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 02, 2006With the VISIR instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have mapped the disc around a star more massive than the Sun. The very extended and flared disc most likely contains enough gas and dust to spawn planets. It appears as a precursor of debris discs such as the one around Vega-like stars and thus provides the rare opportunity to witness the conditions prevailing prior to or during planet formation. Spirit Powers Up As A Second Summer Beckons 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2006Solar power levels on Spirit are slowly beginning to rise again following a winter low of 275 watt-hours on Martian day, or sol, 933 (Aug. 18, 2006). One hundred watt-hours is the amount of electricity needed to light one 100-watt bulb for one hour. This week, the rover's power levels rose to about 296 watt-hours. |
NASA And Partners To Create Center For Space Science And Technology
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 02, 2006The team of the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the Universities Space Research Association has been selected by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to establish and operate the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology. CRESST will bring together NASA Goddard researchers and scientists from the Maryland campuses and USRA to build upon the many capabilities and strengths in space science of the participating organizations. Stellar Birth Control In The Early Universe 
New Haven CN (SPX) Oct 02, 2006An international team of astronomers based at Yale and Leiden University in The Netherlands found that "old stars" dominated many large galaxies in the early universe, raising the new question of why these galaxies progressed into "adulthood" so early in the life of the universe. First Woman Space Tourist Returns To Earth 
Arkalyk, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sep 29, 2006The world's first female space tourist was greeted with fresh fruit and a bouquet of roses when she and the two crew members of the 13th International Space Station mission landed Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The capsule carrying Iranian-born American Anousheh Ansari, Pavel Vinogradov of Russia and US astronaut Jeffrey Williams touched down softly at 0114 GMT north of Arkalyk, shortly after sunrise. |
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Is Ballistic Missile Defense Worth The Money Washington (UPI) Sep 28, 2006 
America's missile defense programs are currently surging ahead far better than their critics expected. But at the same time, even if the programs deliver all the promise that their most ardent champions have predicted for them, they will still be able to deliver only a fraction of what the American public is being told by many pundits that they can do.Boeing Completes Key Risk Reduction Milestone for Space Surveillance System 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 02, 2006The Boeing team that is building the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system has successfully completed a key risk reduction milestone by selecting a vendor for the optical sensor that will fly aboard the Pathfinder spacecraft. Schriever Airmen Take Control Of New GPS Satellite 
Schriever AFB (AFNS) Oct 02, 2006Airmen from the 1st Space Operations Squadron here assumed launch and early orbit responsibilities for Global Positioning System IIR-M 15 shortly after it lifted off Sept. 25 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. EU Optimistic That Air Passenger Data Deal With US Is Imminent 
Brussels (AFP) Sep 29, 2006The European Commission voiced confidence on Friday that EU and US negotiators holding talks in Washington on the transfer of information on air passengers would reach agreement by the weekend deadline. Woes Of Worst Case Analysis Catch Out National Intelligence Estimate 
Washington (UPI) Sep 29, 2006As has been much discussed in the news recently, a National Intelligence Estimate (which President George W. Bush has partly declassified) has concluded that the American presence in Iraq has served not to diminish or even contain Islamic radicalism, but to increase it instead. SKorea/US Finalise Plan For New Military Alliance 
Seoul (AFP) Sep 29, 2006South Korea and the United States have agreed on a programme to reshape their military alliance and give Seoul a bigger role in countering any North Korean attack, officials said Friday. CONTENT PARTNERS
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Indonesia To Offer 17 Million Hectares In New Forest Concessions
Jakarta (AFP) Sep 28, 2006Indonesia plans to offer some 17 million hectares (42 million acres) of lapsed or unused forest concessions to investors interested in developing timber and farming estates, ministers said Thursday. Yangtze Pollution Puts Drinking Water At Risk For Millions Of Chinese 
Beijing (AFP) Sep 29, 2006Worsening pollution in China's longest river, the Yangtze, is putting at risk the drinking water supply to millions of people, according to a new report quoted by state media Friday. British Energy Project Challenged In Russian Wilderness 
Makarov, Russia (AFP) Oct 1, 2006Sirens scream, jeeps fly past, helicopters prepare for take-off. Russia's flamboyant environmental enforcer Oleg Mitvol is in town. Iridium And Marlink Provide Satellite Data Links For Ice-Monitoring Buoy In Arctic Ocean 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 02, 2006Iridium Satellite, in conjunction with its service provider Marlink, is providing two-way data communications with a remote unmanned buoy measuring ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean as part of a program aimed at detecting climate change at high latitudes. Explaining The Methane Mystery Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 02, 2006 Scientists have explained why atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas methane have stabilised in recent years, but warn that increases could resume in the near future. Microbial Planet - Part One 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2006Twenty years have passed since the publication of Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, co-authored by Lynn Margulis and her son Dorion Sagan. Microbes Face New Pipeline Into Human Circulation 
San Francisco (UPI) Sep 28, 2006Infectious-disease specialists have some bad news for deadly microbes: We are out to get the bugs on a lot of different fronts. Scientists Wednesday discussed a wide range of compounds in the pharmaceutical pipeline at an opening session at this year's infectious-disease meeting, sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology. |
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