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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 
In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon. Going further than any explorers before them, they gazed at the barren, cratered landscape beneath them, saw the Moon's far side with their own eyes, and took some history-making photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. On Christmas Eve, the crew made a live television broadcast to millions of ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 13, 2009As a result of the latest International Space Station Multi-Lateral Crew Operations Panel (MCOP) recently held in Houston, ESA has announced that the European crewmember of Expedition 30/31 to fly to the International Space Station in 2011 will be Andre Kuipers from the Netherlands. Therefore, as already stated by ESA's Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain on several occasions, an astrona ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Washington (AFP) Aug 11, 2009As pilotless US drones do battle from the sky in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, a top US Army general is urging the military to step up the deployment of unmanned vehicles on the ground. "It's all about saving lives," said Lieutenant General Rick Lynch, the commander of the III Armored Corps and the holder of a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Te ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2009From August 1 to 24, 2009 AMASE (the Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition) will be taking place in Svalbard (Norway, 76-81 degrees N). This expedition involves different researchers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, NASA/JPL, ESA, Cornell University, the Earth and Planetary Exploration Services (Norway), DLR (Germany), the University of Valladolid (Spain) and the University of Leed ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. The rock, dubbed "Block Island," is larger than any other known meteorite on Mars. Scientists calculate it is too massive to have hit the ground without disintegrating unless Mars had a much thicker ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2009When President Kennedy announced on Sept. 12, 1962, that the United States would go to the moon before the end of the decade, life and work at NASA changed in monumental ways. By then, NASA had four manned spaceflights under its belt. A trip to the moon would leverage years of spaceflight knowledge, but traveling out of low Earth orbit, past Geosynchronous orbit to the moon, would demand increas ... more 
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Aug 2, 2009Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world's biggest annual gatherings of new technology enthusiasts. Standing 58 centimetres (23 inches) tall and with a plastic shell for a body, a humanoid robot called Nao drew a crowd at the Campus Party in Valencia as it ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 03, 2009New noise abatement approach trajectories for conventional transport aircraft have been tested in flight by the German Aerospace Center. The trajectories under consideration promise ground-noise reduction along most of the flight path by relocating and concentrating high noise levels into selected areas. A new, high-precision autopilot for automated flight operation was installed onboard ... more |
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