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NASA space probe swings by Jupiter
Feb 28 2007 10:41PM (CT)
LAUREL, Md. (AP) - NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter. The fastest spacecraft ever launched was within a million and a half miles of Jupiter early Wednesday, giving scientists a close-up look at the giant gaseous planet and its moons.
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Budget crunch delays NASA's moon ship
Feb 28 2007 9:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA will delay the first manned flight of the new spacecraft designed to take humans back to the moon because of budget constraints, the agency's boss said Wednesday.
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Men save salamanders from being squished
Feb 28 2007 7:44PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - While humans rush inside during cold, wet nights, salamanders find the weather a perfect time to go outside and look for a partner. And that's a problem for salamanders who live along busy 31st street and in the nearby Baker Wetlands in Lawrence.
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Group: Global warming effects hunting
Feb 28 2007 7:43PM (CT)
IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory (AP) - Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures.
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20 new ocean species found in Indonesia
Feb 28 2007 7:39PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.
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Colombia drought suffocates tons of fish
Feb 28 2007 7:38PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - An estimated 3 million fish have suffocated in a reservoir in southern Colombia, where a four-month drought has drastically drained water levels, leaving too little oxygen to sustain dozens of hatcheries.
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ESA director discusses space missions
Feb 28 2007 7:38PM (CT)
DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) - As a young space scientist in the early 1980s, David Southwood backed an offbeat idea for a joint U.S.-European mission to Saturn's moon Titan: Let the Europeans build the spacecraft's lander.
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S. Africa plans to curb elephant numbers
Feb 28 2007 3:16PM (CT)
ADDO ELEPHANT PARK, South Africa (AP) - The majestic male elephant ambled through the dense bush to the water hole, extending his trunk in greeting to two young females, April and Aqua, their mother Aran and grandmother Agatha.
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FDA approves first drug for carsick dogs
Feb 28 2007 2:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dogs who get a little green under the fur while traveling gained the first drug Wednesday to prevent vomiting associated with motion sickness.
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Hail forces launch delay for Atlantis
Feb 28 2007 9:15AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Golf ball-size hail that pelted space shuttle Atlantis earlier this week, dimpling its fuel tank, did enough damage that NASA has decided to cancel its March launch plans and send the shuttle back inside for repairs.
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