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Russian deal gives NASA more launch time
Aug 30 2006 5:22PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA got more breathing room to launch the space shuttle Atlantis next week thanks to an agreement with the Russian space agency, which has its own spaceflight plans.
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1st woman space tourist readies for trip
Aug 30 2006 4:32PM (CT)
STAR CITY, Russia (AP) - Like millions of children, Anousheh Ansari dreamed and wondered about the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule to the international space station and becomes the first female space tourist.
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Europe's first lunar mission nears end
Aug 30 2006 3:57PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Europe's first mission to the moon is due to crash-land in a cloud of dust and rock early Sunday, ending a three-year voyage that gathered data about the lunar surface and tested a new engine intended to propel future spacecraft to Mercury and other planets.
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Scientists pinpoint polar cataclysm date
Aug 30 2006 6:27AM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A 30-mile maze canyons in Antarctica was carved out of bedrock by the catastrophic draining of subglacial lakes during global warming between 12 million and 14 million years ago, according to university researchers who warn a similar event today could have serious environmental consequences.
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Receding Texas lake reveals old skeleton
Aug 30 2006 6:27AM (CT)
AUSTIN (AP) - Archeologists say a prehistoric skeleton and campsite discovered on the muddy shore of Lake Travis could be between 700 and 2,000 years old.
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Professor helps invent lightning sensor
Aug 30 2006 6:26AM (CT)
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - A University of Oklahoma professor has helped invent a device that measures the likelihood that lightning will strike.
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U.S. science agency funds study center
Aug 30 2006 6:26AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The National Science Foundation is giving $19 million to Oregon Health & Sciences University to create a national center for river-coastal research.
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Scientists unveil Brazil dinosaur model
Aug 30 2006 6:26AM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Scientists on Monday unveiled a replica of a skeleton scientists said was from the largest dinosaur species yet discovered in Brazil _ a mid-sized herbivore that roamed central Brazil some 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period.
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Hydrogen power system unveiled in Maine
Aug 30 2006 6:26AM (CT)
WISCASSET, Maine (AP) - A $250,000 demonstration project that produces hydrogen energy to provide backup lighting and warmth at the Chewonki Foundation's environmental education center was hailed at its unveiling Monday as the first of its kind in the nation.
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