Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2007 - A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched six satellites at 10:10 p.m., EST, for the U.S. Air Force, marking the first use of the Atlas for an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program mission. Known as Space Test Program-1, the mission deployed the six satellites into two different low-Earth orbits.
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 11, 2007 - An exciting new era of globally-coordinated space exploration is foreseen by the fourteen space organisations who met here in Kyoto, Japan from 7th to 9th March 2007. Following a space exploration conference held in Washington in April 2006 hosted by NASA, the fourteen organisations created an informal 'Global Exploration Strategy' team. This group has met through workshops and teleconferences in order to prepare a long term perspective for space exploration.
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2007 - The Expedition 14 crew members this week prepared for upcoming additions to the station and performed experiments related to human adaptation to space. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni Williams completed the last of the internal assembly tasks for the startup later this year of the new Oxygen Generation System in the Destiny laboratory.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2007 - On Sunday, Atlantis rolled from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where employees spent the week positioning platforms around the shuttle to allow for inspections and repairs to hail-damaged areas. Inspections of the external tank are expected to be completed next week. Some foam sanding has begun in the nose cone area of the tank.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 09, 2007 - The green light has been given for this Saturday's Ariane 5 launch with a dual-satellite payload, while a second heavy-lift Ariane 5 is taking shape for Arianespace's subsequent mission with another pair of satellite passengers.
Los Angeles (SPX) Mar 09, 2007 - The X PRIZE Foundation raised more than $2.5 million at the Radical Benefit for Humanity on Saturday evening. Hosted by Larry Page at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., luminaries from around the world attended including: Lawrence Bender, producer of An Inconvenient Truth; Tipper Gore; Sergey Brin, Google co-founder; Sir Richard Branson; Dr. Stuart Blusson, sponsor of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics; Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles Lindbergh.
Guildford UK (SPX) Mar 09, 2007 - People are known to differ markedly in their response to sleep deprivation, but the biological underpinnings of these differences have remained difficult to identify. Researchers have now found that a genetic difference in a so-called clock gene, PERIOD3, makes some people particularly sensitive to the effects of sleep deprivation.
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2007 - The new Democratic Congress has now officially passed its Continuing Resolution funding NASA for Fiscal Year 2007 at the same level as the agency's FY 2006 funding, in response to the previous GOP Congress' total, failure to pass a final budget for NASA (or for most of the rest of the American government) before closing down.
Rome (AFP) March 8, 2007 - Italy has successfully tested a prototype of an unmanned space shuttle, dropping the vehicle from high altitude to see how it copes with the stress of re-entry, the Italian Centre for Aerospace Research (CIRA) said on Thursday.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2007 - Using the highly sensitive radar telescope at the Cornell University-managed Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and Goldstone antenna in California, Cornell astronomers have confirmed a theory that sunlight and the asteroid's shape determine how an asteroid's rotation evolves. Their research is reported today in Science Express, the online edition of the journal Science.
Washington (UPI) March 8, 2007 - The International Space University's 2009 summer program will be held at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. It's the first time the program has been held at a National Aeronautics and Space Administration center.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 08, 2007 - Two South Korean astronauts, one of whom will fly to the International Space Station (ISS), have started training in Zvyozdny Gorodok outside Moscow. Only two successful candidates from 36,000 hopefuls were selected for the flight - Ph.D. Lee So-yeon, 28, from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and Ko San, 30, from the Samsung research center. The flight is planned for April 6, 2008, said Maxim Kharlamov, chief cosmonaut training expert.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2007 - Space Shuttle Atlantis has rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building from Launch Pad 39A. The vehicle was roll backed due to hail damage that occurred on the tank during a severe thunderstorm that happened on Feb. 26. The vehicle was hard down inside the Vehicle Assembly Building around 5:49 p.m. on Sunday, March 4.
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Mar 07, 2007 - For a lucky subset of vertebrates, losing an appendage is no big deal. As many an inquisitive child knows, salamanders can regenerate lost limbs or tails; and as lab investigators know, zebrafish can regrow lost fins. Of course, humans and other higher vertebrates must make do with repairing rather than regenerating damaged tissues.
Washington (UPI) March 07, 2007 - NASA officials have set a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing the next U.S. spacecraft a step closer to construction. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Orion Project scientists completed the system requirements review in cooperation with the project's prime contractor, the Lockheed Martin Corp.
Washington (AFP) March 07, 2007 - A US astronaut who drove hundreds of kilometers (miles) in a diaper to confront a love rival has been fired a month after being arrested. US Navy Captain Lisa Nowak's detail as a NASA astronaut has been terminated, effective March 8, by mutual agreement between NASA and the US Navy, NASA said in a statement. NASA requested an end to the detail because the agency lacks the administrative means to deal appropriately with the criminal charges pending against Nowak.
