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AerospaceFIRST GO-OUT FOR DISCOVERY CREW
CAPE CANAVERAL, Yesterday, the first space-walk has been effectuated by two of the Discovery crew, Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao, that have worked six hour in order to connect antennas and cables on... more
AerospaceMIR CORPORATION ON STOCK EXCHANGE TO SAVE MIR SPACE STATION
NEW YORK, The private-controlled Mir Corporation, that owns the right on Russian Mir space station, decided to go on stock exchange in order to collect 117 USD million to renew the old space station. According... more
AerospaceFINALLY DISCOVERY HAS BEEN LAUNCHED
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, Discovery, in the hundredth shuttle mission, has finally left its ramp with its seven astronauts crew, that will perform important works on International Space Station. The... more
AerospaceANOTHER DELAY FOR DISCOVERY LAUNCH
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, Other troubles delays hundredth Shuttle Discovery launch: a small piece of metal, inadvertently left on the support bracket of one of two tanks, has brought to a sudden stop... more
AerospaceISS HOOKS SATISFATORILY THE PROGRESS RUSSIAN SHUTTLE
., With only a minute of delay the connection between International Space Station and russian shuttle Progress M1-3 has been carried out. The Progress is working to provide necessary supplies, like water,... more
AerospacePOSTPONED DISCOVERY LAUNCH DUE TO THE STRONG WIND
CAPE CANAVERAL, The hundredth Discovery launch, has been postponed due to the strong wind for the second time: on Thursday, there was some problems in the external tank hatch and the substitution of... more
AerospaceFRAGMENT FROM "WRIGHT FLYER" WILL TRAVEL ON SPACE SHUTTLE
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, A fragment of "Wright Flyer" the first airplane successfully flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, NC on December 17, 1903, will be sent to space with Space Shuttle STS-92... more
Aerospace100TH SHUTTLE MISSION ON THURSDAY
WASHINGTON, Discovery will lift off on thursday for the 100th space shuttle flight. The mission is aimed at building another part of the International Space Station. The crew is scheduled to log the longest... more
AerospaceFROM KUBRIK TO NASA: NEXT YEAR THE MISSION "2001 MARS ODISSEY"
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, Nasa scheduled mission "2001 Mars Odissey" for next year. The new was announced by Scott Hubbard, Director of Nasa's Mars program, mentioning the evocative power of Arthur C. Clarke's... more
AerospaceSENT INTO ORBIT "MEGASAT1", THE MICROSATELLITE ABLE TO READ GAS AND LIGHT METERS
ROME, A simulator for scientific experiments, which will be able to read our bills, has been sent into orbit. Megasat1 was launched from the base of Balkonour, Kazakhstan. It is a "teaching microsatellite"... more
AerospaceTHE SUN WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR GREENHOUSE EFFECT
LONDON, The sun, not the polluting plants, would be responsible for the greenhouse which is melting icecaps and increasing sea mark. The british newspapers Sunday Times published the documentation of an... more
AerospaceNEAR SATELLITE UNVEILS EROS ASTEROID'S MISTERIES
WASHINGTON, About 40 km of lenght, 4-5 billion years old, fold surfaced, full of rocks and craters, with a gravity a thousand times lower than earth: this is the asteroid Eros, large as a little planet... more
AerospaceNASA DEFERS WORK ON PLUTO MISSION
USA, National Agency for Space Administration (NASA) has stopped indefinitely the research on its planned mission to Pluto, the solar system's only unexplored planet while engineers try to design a less... more
AerospaceHACKER IMPRISONED FOR BREAKING PENTAGON AND NASA NETWORK
WASHINGTON, A 16 years old hacker was sentenced by Miami Court to six months and imprisoned for breaking Defense, Nasa and a private server's network. He gained access to confidential data and getting... more
AerospaceAEROSPACE MEDICINE FOR YES AND BLOOD
ROME, Lasers analyzing blood and controlling glucose level, band-aids to test calcium, 3d eye images to point laser at cornea more accurately: these are some of the projects deriving from the encounter... more
AerospaceRUSSIA'S SECOND COSMONAUT TITOV DIES
MOSCOW, Gierman Titov, Russia's second man in space after Yuri Gagarin died yesterday in his home sauna for carbon monoxide poisoning. The 65 years old cosmonaut was appointed general of russian Air Force... more
AerospaceNEWS ABOUT ANTLANTIS LAST MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, Space Shuttle landed at 3:23 a.m. local time at Kennedy Space Center. it was the 14 landing ib the darkness. Nighttime landings are becoming more common, though, now that NASA... more
AerospaceNBC SENDS PEOPLE INTO SPACE WITH "DESTINATION MIR" PROGRAM
NEW YORK, In the age of the "Big Brother" tv program, so far from quiz shows, the winner of a new tv program will be offered a ten day trip into space. Mark Murnett's idea was liked by Nbc american network... more
AerospaceITALY IS READY TO FINANCE VEGA ROCKET
ROME, Italy is ready to finance the development of Vega rocket among the Esa. The whole cost of european program is $400 million, 10-15% of which has been already subscribed by a few minor countries.... more
AerospaceITALY IS ONE OF THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES INVESTING LESS IN AEROSPACE
ROME, Antonio Rodotà, President of the European Space Agency said Italy uses only 1% of public funds for research, against the 2-3% of the other industrialized countries. The gap is higher about aerospace... more
AerospaceSPACE SHUTTLE LANDED
CAPE KENNEDY, Atlantis touched down on the northwest-southeast runway at Kennedy Space Center right on time, at 3:56 a.m. EDT, after a 12-day mission, the 99th from the beginning, in which the crew, composed... more
AerospaceANTI-ASTEROID IMPOSSIBLE MISSION: BLAIR GOVERNMENT DOSSIER GIVES THE ALARM
LONDON, A dossier released by Blair government proposes Great Britain as the leader of a european coalition to create a monitoring system and anti-asteroids space defense. The dossier will set an evaluation... more
AerospaceATLANTIS SPACE SHUTTLE PLANNED TO RETURN TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, Atlantis space shuttle is planned to return home tomorrow, after departing the international space station and it is on the way back home. Favourable weather forecast for Cape Canaveral would... more
AerospaceATLANTIS DEPARTS SPACE STATION, RETURN TO EARTH EXPECTED EARLY WEDNESDAY
HOUSTON, After the fulfillment of the scheduled missions by the astronauts, Atlantis departed space station to return to earth early wednesday at Cape Canaveral. The stormy weather condition in Florida... more
AerospaceGALILEO'S "EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE" WILL BE DEMONSTRATE IN ORBIT BY MICROSCOPE PROJECT
ROME, The equivalence principle, asserting that in a gravitational field all bodies accellerate at the same speed apart from the mass, will be demonstrated in orbit. After a few centuries, the famous Glileo... more
AerospaceULISSE SPACE SOUNDING IS SETTING TO FLY SUN'S SOUTH POLE AGAIN
ROME, A real celestial odissey for Ulisse sounding which is undertaking the second exploration of sun's south pole. The aim is to arrive to fly again north pole too to accomplish a course of 11 missions.... more
AerospaceNEW TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE PROPULSION
PASADENA, CA, Scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Pasadena hoisted a carbonium thin sail, as the ones unveiled at EuroEM 200, together with experimentation results, using a microwave sheaf of 10... more
AerospaceFRESH BATTERIES INSTALLED IN SPACE STATION
USA, Space Shuttle crew, undertaking several missions to set up International Space Station with permanent staff aboard, snapped new batteries into place and hauled gear into the growing outpost. Two astronauts... more
AerospaceNASA CHANDRA SATELLITE DISCOVERS INTERMEDIATE BLACK HOLES
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, New forontiers of scientific knowledge are opening thanks to Nasa research. Using X-ray telescope of Chandra's satellite, the most high-powered, found the trace of the existence... more
AerospaceFRENCH PARACHUTIST MICHEL FOURNIER ON THE EDGE OF HUMAN LIMIT
SAO PAULO, The french parachutist Michel Fournier will attempt an undertaking on the edge of human limit, to overcome the sound wall by free fall launching himself into the stratosphere from an helium... more