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The United States Monday proudly marks the 40th anniversary of its conquest of the moon, a triumph of scientific endeavor now remembered at a time when US dominance in space is increasingly uncertain. President Barack Obama will kick off a week of events when he meets Monday at the White House with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, who became the first to accomplish the dream of ages and walk on the moon on July 20, 1969 - 20:17:40 UTC. ... read more 
Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009Astronauts from the US space shuttle Endeavour were to venture into open space Monday on the mission's second spacewalk aimed at helping complete the International Space Station. Astronauts Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn spent part of Sunday preparing special tools, reviewing procedures and beginning their campout in a special decompression chamber in preparation for the walk, which is set to ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Hampton VA (SPX) Jul 20, 2009Building on nearly a century of exploration, aeronautics research and scientific discovery, NASA's Langley Research Center has broken ground for the first building in its "New Town" program, a $200-million facility improvement project designed to enhance mission performance capabilities and renew current facilities. In partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), NASA ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2009The Mars rover team is using a test rover at JPL to assess various extraction techniques that might get Spirit out of the loose soil of "Troy" on Mars. One of the maneuvers being run with the test rover involves turning the rear wheels toward the left while the left-front wheel is turned toward the right, and driving forward to pivot around the inoperable right-front wheel. Engineers and ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 19, 2009Wernher von Braun, a German engineer considered the father of Nazi Germany's V2 missile, was also a key player in the construction of the Saturn V rocket that helped US astronauts land on the moon on July 20, 1969. Born in 1912, von Braun was "one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration during the period between the 1930s and the 1970s," the US space agency ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 19, 2009One of the many legacies of the Apollo space programme was the way it caused an extraordinary, enduring -- and, for some, troubling -- change in how we perceive the Universe and our place in it. Before, the Moon was distant and aloof, a symbol of everything that is unattainable, a place of dreams, an object of superstition and veneration. After being explored by Apollo 11 on July 20 196 ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structuresLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 Boeing has introduced a 3D-printed solar array substrate design that cuts composite build times by as much as six months for a typical solar wing assembly, representing up to a 50 percent faster pro ... more  
Mitsubishi Electric to Lead JAXA Fund Project on Next Generation Solar Cells for SatellitesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 02, 2025 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) has been chosen as a representative organization under JAXA's Space Strategy Fund for the initiative "Development of Domestic Solar Cells, Cover Glass, ... more 
Passivation breakthrough drives efficiency gains in perovskite silicon tandem solar cellsLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 An international team of researchers has achieved a major advance in perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology by demonstrating effective passivation on textured silicon bottom cells, the indu ... more
  
First U.S. On-Shore Wave-Energy Pilot Switches On at the Port of Los AngelesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 The bright-blue floaters leaned out from the seawall at AltaSea and began to breathe with the water - up, down, up again - signaling a new chapter for America's blue-economy. With that motion, Eco W ... more 
AI systems developed to improve fusion reactor safety and performanceTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 A research team led by Prof. Sun Youwen at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled two artificial intelligence systems designed to enhance the stabil ... more 
Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights onLiverpool (AFP) Aug 31, 2025 Britain's energy operator is betting on an age-old technology to future-proof its grid, as the power plants that traditionally helped stabilise it are closed and replaced by renewable energy systems. ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009Space Exploration Technologies has announced the successful launch of Falcon 1 and delivery of Malaysia's RazakSAT into the correct orbit. Falcon 1, a two-stage, liquid oxygen/rocket-grade kerosene vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX, lifted off Monday, July 13, at 8:35 pm (PDT). Lift off occurred from the Reagan Test Site (RTS) on Omelek Island at the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 16, 2009NASA on Thursday unveiled restored video footage of man's first steps on the moon, 40 years to the day after Apollo 11 blasted off on its historic voyage into space. The first installment of a more extensive project, the video includes 15 restored key moments from the mission led by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the US space agency said. The video was only ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2009NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,850th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission (April 7, 2009). Opportunity had driven 62.5 meters (205 feet) that sol, southward away from an outcrop called "Penrhyn," which the rover had been examining for a few sols, and towar ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 18, 2009Forty years after Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon, the now 77-year-old former astronaut still likes to share his memories of space flight with a broad audience - by painting them. Bean decided to make the switch from astronaut to artist a dozen years after the Apollo 12 mission that took him to the moon in November 1969 and after spending two months in space in 1973 on ... more |
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