Phoenix Mars Lander has successful launch Canada Dot Com | A spacecraft headed for Mars launched Saturday morning will use Canadian technology to help determine if the red planet can support life. | The Phoenix Mars Lander, a product of NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and universities around the world, will travel nine months to the distant planet some ....
Talk about off-road ... how about a truck for the Moon? The Providence Journal | HOUSTON - It turns on a dime and parallel-parks like a dream. | On the downside, it's a little pricey (at $2 million or so) and its top speed is a pokey 15 miles an hour. | Still, there's a lot to like about the concept car taking shape at the Johnson Space Center. | Did I say car? The new moon bu...
Astronaut Yi to Leave Hospital Wednesday Korea Times | By Cho Jin-seo | Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon will be discharged from hospital on Wednesday as she has almost recovered from the impact of the bad landing. | The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Yi will start her official sc...
A new visitors center, too, but it won't be ready till fall Key aspects of ... The News Tribune guest rooms | The East Wing of the inn was gutted, including the removal of the Glacier Lounge. The space was used to create seven guest rooms that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Some have one bed and others have two. The bathrooms ...
Sexist culture drives women out of science The Times div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | A time warp of 1970s sexist attitudes is driving women in their late thirties from careers in science and technology and undermining key sectors of the economy, ac...
Spaceport plan rocketing ahead Houston Chronicle TOOLS RESOURCES Video • • (2004) Webcast • • interactive • • WEBLINKS • • Mars Rovers, Saturn Cassini, Hubble Telescope and more • Shuttle, International Space Station • • • • • • • • • • • These free downloads may be required: , , , or . | Video and...
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Hubble repair mission delayed New Scientist | Delays in producing space shuttle fuel tanks, which were substantially redesigned after the 2003 Columbia disaster, will postpone NASA's final servicing mission to the Hubble Spa...
Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks BBC News | The date of the shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope should be confirmed in the next few weeks, Nasa says. | The flight is currently set for 28 August...
U.S. space shuttle crew practices for launch San Diego CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Seven astronauts climbed inside the space shuttle Discovery Friday as part of a dress rehearsal for a May 31 mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station. | Five of the seven have not flown in spa...
Florida's Space Coast Journal News Sunday, May 11, 2008 | The space shuttle Endeavour returned from the International Space Station, touching down at the Kennedy Space Center at 8:39 p.m. March 26. The 122nd space shuttle flight's landing planned before sunset had been delayed by 90 m...
Talk about off-road ... how about a truck for the Moon? The Providence Journal | HOUSTON - It turns on a dime and parallel-parks like a dream. | On the downside, it's a little pricey (at $2 million or so) and its top speed is a pokey 15 miles an hour. | Still, there's a lot to like about the concept car taking shape at the Johnson Space Center. | Did I say car? The new moon buggy conceived by space center engineers is anythin...
VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: paper Scientific American | VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: paper Journalists talk in front of a Volkswagen TDI Hybrid car during the first media day of the 78th Geneva car show at the Palexpo in Geneva March 4, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse | TOKYO (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen and Japan's Sanyo Electric Co will jointly develop a lithium-ion battery to b...
