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Launch Countdown Under Way For STS-132Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 12, 2010 The countdown to liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission officially has started. Countdown clocks at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida were activated at 4 p.m. EDT, ticking backward from the T-43 hour mark. "Teams at the Kennedy Space Center and at other centers around the country have been working very hard to get this vehicle ready to fly, and I am happy to report everything is going quite well at [Launch Pad 39A]," NASA Test Director Steve Payne said Tuesday morning. ... read more |
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Venice, Louisiana (AFP) May 3, 2010Kinder weather aided efforts Monday to counter a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as BP prepared to launch an unprecedented operation to try to contain the main leak with a giant dome. "We expect to load out the fabricated containment chamber tomorrow and we hope to have the system up and operating within a week," BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told reporters. The dome is ... more 
Washington (AFP) May 1, 2010The Gulf of Mexico spill has not significantly disrupted US oil and gas production or vital shipping lanes along the southern US coast, the admiral leading the response effort said Saturday. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen said the giant oil slick lying off Louisiana was likely to hit the Gulf Coast shoreline "at some point" and admitted the leaking well would cause an "extraordina ... more 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 2, 2010Using remote-controlled submarines to shut off the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is like doing "open heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark," the head of BP's US operations said Sunday. BP America Chairman and President Lamar McKay acknowledged that the oil gushing from the fractured well nearly a mile (1,500 meters) below the ocean surface was due to a defective equipment designed ... more |
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Low Oxygen Resources In Central New York's Three Rivers SystemSyracuse NY (SPX) Apr 30, 2010 A unique three-year longitudinal and vertical study of Central New York's Three Rivers system-involving the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca rivers-has revealed that oxygen resources have become degraded by several stressors, including the impact of wastewater treatment plants, nonpoint runoff, an increase in invasive zebra mussels and channelization of the flow. As oxygen is necessary to support life in aquatic ecosystems, its measurement is essential for gauging the overall state of water bodies; in on ... read more |
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