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Greening The Moon And MarsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2010 Future manned missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils, researchers say. Now they hope to launch new experiments to follow up on tests done with plants and lunar regolith during NASA's Apollo program that landed men on the Moon. Lunar regolith is a loose mixture of dust, soil, broken rock and other related materials that lie on top of solid bedrock. The Apollo-era research showed that returned lunar samples of the regol ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 20, 2010 America's global commitments, from Japan to Germany, from NATO to Afghanistan, from EUCOM to AFRICOM, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf, from USPACOM in Honolulu to CENTCOM in Tampa, Fla., all are being reassessed - at home and abroad. Can a superpower whose infrastructure is rapidly decaying to Third-World standards in many sectors and in need of a $1 trillion face-lift affo ... more  
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jul 22, 2010The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting, reports an interdisciplinary team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work was conducted as part of a NASA-funded effort to search extreme environments for geol ... more  
New York NY (SPX) Jul 21, 2010Andrews Space and Honeybee Robotics jointlyhas announced that they have entered into an exclusive teaming arrangement to provide control moment gyros for a range of spacecraft sizes. Under the agreement Andrews Space (Andrews) and Honeybee Robotics (Honeybee) will leverage their respective strengths in systems engineering, spacecraft attitude determination and control technology, spacecraf ... more |
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No serious problem at capped Gulf oil well: USWashington (AFP) July 19, 2010 None of the anomalies detected close to BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico are threatening the integrity of the capped wellhead, a senior US official said Monday. Seepage found some three miles (1.9 kilometers) from the capped well was not related to the operation to staunch the flow of oil from the wellhead, said US Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen. "We do not believe that is associated with this particular well integrity test," Allen, the US pointman in charge of the government's response ... read more |
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