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NASA takes risk with shuttle launch
Jun 30 2006 9:53PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA chief Michael Griffin is taking a calculated gamble by going ahead with the launch of Discovery, overruling two top managers who fear foam flying off the fuel tank might harm the space shuttle.
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Battlefield objects pulled from lake
Jun 30 2006 7:38PM (CT)
PERU, N.Y. (AP) - Gen. Benedict Arnold led a "wretched, motley" crew of sailors on Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here on Oct. 11, 1776. The rebels lost.
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Calif. scientists reopen Ice Age dig site
Jun 30 2006 7:38PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists went back to work Thursday at one of the world's richest Ice Age fossil sites, digging the tooth of a five-foot dire wolf and the toe of a sabertooth tiger from the sticky prehistoric asphalt near Wilshire Boulvard.
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Sonar exercise set despite whale lawsuit
Jun 30 2006 7:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Department granted the Navy a national security exemption Friday to use sonar during maritime exercises off both coasts for the next six months, letting the service sidestep a lawsuit that sought to protect whales near Hawaii from the noise.
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NASA revives main Hubble telescope camera
Jun 30 2006 7:09PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope came back to life Friday for the first time in nearly two weeks after NASA engineers switched to a backup power system, the space agency announced.
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NASA could land shuttle without crew
Jun 30 2006 7:09PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It's a scenario NASA hopes it never has to try out. If Discovery is badly damaged during Saturday's launch, the astronauts could take refuge in the international space station.
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NASA names new lunar spacecraft Ares
Jun 30 2006 7:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA on Friday named its new lunar spacecraft Ares I and Ares V, using a Greek word for Mars, the planet where the space agency eventually hopes to land astronauts.
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Record hammerhead pregnant with 55 pups
Jun 30 2006 7:07PM (CT)
BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (AP) - The likely world-record hammerhead shark caught in May weighed 1,280 pounds because it was pregnant with 55 pups _ the most scientists have ever seen.
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Asteroid to make harmless pass by Earth
Jun 30 2006 6:33PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A huge asteroid will have a close encounter with Earth this weekend, but astronomers say there is no danger of an impact. The asteroid, known as 2004 XP14, will whiz by about 269,000 miles from the Earth, slightly farther away than the moon.
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Vt. Dairy Farm Harnesses Power of Cow Pies
Jun 30 2006 6:58AM (CT)
BRIDPORT, Vt. (AP) - The cows at the Audet family's Blue Spruce Farm make nearly 9,000 gallons of milk a day _ and about 35,000 gallons of manure.
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