On 12 September, Mrs Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Minister for Culture, Higher Education and Research of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and Mr Antonio Rodotà, Director General of the European Space Agency, […]
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The Ulysses spacecraft, on a mission to explore the Sun at extreme latitudes, today begins its investigation of the Sun’s south polar region. This will be the second time Ulysses […]
Ulysses returns to the Sun’s south pole and encounters blustery solar weather
Just as solar storms are brewing, the European-built space probe, Ulysses, is venturing over the Sunís south pole for the second time in its 10 year life. The intrepid spacecraft […]
Satellite imagery pinpoints El Nino’s disruption of marine ecosystem
Contact: Harvey Leifert hleifert@agu.org 202-777-7507 American Geophysical Union WASHINGTON — While evidence of the 1997-1998 El Niño was readily apparent on land–with storms and flooding that caused millions of dollars […]
SPACEHAB Announces Financial Results For Fiscal Year 2000
SPACEHAB, Inc. , a leading provider of commercial space services, today announced financial results for its 2000 fourth quarter and fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2000. For the fourth […]
UC Santa Cruz astronomers forge ahead on giant telescope project
Contact: Tim Stephens stephens@cats.ucsc.edu 831-459-2495 University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–The desire for ever larger telescopes has driven astronomers relentlessly for nearly 400 years. In 1610, Galileo discovered […]
SpaceDev Adds Curt Blake to Board of Directors
POWAY, Calif. – September 6, 2000 – SpaceDev, Inc. (OTCBB:SPDV), the world’s first publicly traded commercial space exploration and development company, today announced that Mr. Curt Blake of the Seattle […]
NASA Technology Could Save Vanishing Native American Languages
The most up-to-the-minute language-instruction technology, used in the space program, may come to the rescue of some venerable old languages and cultures. Native American educators are looking at technology from […]
NASA Needs More Workers, Florida Ready to Help
A U.S. General Accounting Office study completed last month has concluded that NASA’s current level of staffing is insufficient to support the agency’s ambitious Space Shuttle and Space Station schedules. […]
Eat your space greens
Broccoli is just the thing to keep astronauts’ bones healthy IF PEOPLE are ever to reach Mars or other planets, they had better take some broccoli plants with them. French […]