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Mars orbiter photographs 3 landers
Dec 4 2006 11:16PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The newest spacecraft orbiting Mars has taken pictures of three NASA crafts used in previous missions to the red planet _ the rover Spirit that landed on the surface in 2004 and the two Viking landers that set down in 1976.
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Countdown for shuttle launch set to go
Dec 4 2006 11:15PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA and its Russian counterpart worked on two minor problems Monday before starting the countdown clock for Thursday night's launch of space shuttle Discovery on a mission to rewire the international space station.
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NASA says it will set up polar moon camp
Dec 4 2006 7:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA may be going to the same old moon with a ship that looks a lot like a 1960s Apollo capsule, but the space agency said Monday that it's going to do something dramatically different this time: Stay there.
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Scientists criticize bird flu search
Dec 4 2006 5:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Birds from Latin America _ not from the north _ are most likely to bring deadly bird flu to the main U.S., researchers said Monday, suggesting the government might miss the H5N1 virus because biologists have been looking in the wrong direction.
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Brazil protects great swath of Amazon
Dec 4 2006 3:33PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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