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Pistols seized in crime operation Police in Northern Ireland seize 14 pistols and arrest a man as part of an international operation targeting organised crime. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Wannabe Space Tourist Wants $21 Million Back Over Scuttled Mission The Japanese internet tycoon who paid $21 million to become the first space tourist to walk outside the International Space Station wants his money back. In a lawsuit, Daisuke Enomoto, 37, claims that Space Adventures, the private firm with connections to the Russian Federal Space Agency, "dece Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Wannabe Space Tourist Wants $21 Million Back Over Scuttled Mission The Japanese internet tycoon who paid $21 million to become the first space tourist to walk outside the International Space Station wants his money back. In a lawsuit, Daisuke Enomoto, 37, claims that Space Adventures, the private firm with connections to the Russian Federal Space Agency, "dece Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gallery: 10 Years of the International Space Station : Photo: NASAFloating 190 miles above the Earth's surface, the extraplanetary crash pad known as the International Space Station careens through the sky at an average of over 17,000 miles per hour, making almost 16 Earth orbits a day. Set for completion in 2011, it's been 10 years since Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: 10 Years of the International Space Station : Photo: NASAFloating 190 miles above the Earth's surface, the extraplanetary crash pad known as the International Space Station careens through the sky at an average of over 17,000 miles per hour, making almost 16 Earth orbits a day. Set for completion in 2011, it's been 10 years since Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gallery: The Space Suit Makes the NASA Astronaut : Photo: NASA"Form follows function." Nowhere is that dictum more inflexible than in the hostile reaches of outer space. So nothing hews to that dictum more closely than the space suit. Even as it has evolved over NASA's 50 years to adapt to increasingly sophisticated missions and changing spacec Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: The Space Suit Makes the NASA Astronaut : Photo: NASA"Form follows function." Nowhere is that dictum more inflexible than in the hostile reaches of outer space. So nothing hews to that dictum more closely than the space suit. Even as it has evolved over NASA's 50 years to adapt to increasingly sophisticated missions and changing spacec Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Space Tourist Who Wasn't I met Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto in Star City, Russia, in August 2006. Enomoto, 37, is slight with tired eyes and a shock of bleach-blond dyed hair. His idea of space travel comes from comic books and Star Wars. He grew up as a self-described otaku, coding his own computer games and dreaming of s Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Howard Hughes' Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes. This on Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Howard Hughes' Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes. This on Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Dec. 4, 1998: Midwife to the Int'l Space Station 1998: The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the first American-built component of the International Space Station. Two days later, the connecting node known as Unity is coupled with Zarya (Sunrise), the Russian-built control module, and the space station is a reality Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Dec. 4, 1998: Midwife to the Int'l Space Station 1998: The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the first American-built component of the International Space Station. Two days later, the connecting node known as Unity is coupled with Zarya (Sunrise), the Russian-built control module, and the space station is a reality Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Finish Line for the Next Space Race: Planet Earth NASA's heated space race with the Russians resulted in Americans orbiting the Earth, landing on the moon, creating new constellations of satellites and building a space station. And NASA accomplished it all in 50 short years. But what has NASA done for us lately? Wi Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Finish Line for the Next Space Race: Planet Earth NASA's heated space race with the Russians resulted in Americans orbiting the Earth, landing on the moon, creating new constellations of satellites and building a space station. And NASA accomplished it all in 50 short years. But what has NASA done for us lately? Wi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Shuttle Heads for Rendezvous With Space Station - New York Times Irish IndependentShuttle Heads for Rendezvous With Space StationNew York Times - 51 minutes agoThe space shuttle Discovery lifting off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center on Saturday. By JOHN SCHWARTZ KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.Video: Shuttle Discovery Blasts Off Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Shuttle Discovery Arrives at Space Station with Japanese Lab - Space.com VNUNet.comShuttle Discovery Arrives at Space Station with Japanese LabSpace.com - 1 hour agoBy Clara Moskowitz HOUSTON - After a two-day chase, NASA's shuttle Discovery and its seven-astronaut crew caught up with the International Space Station (ISS) Monday to deliver a Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Space Invaders' Remake Takes Retro Gaming to the Limit This is slightly embarrassing to admit, but I'm addicted to ... Space Invaders. Not the 1978-issue game, mind you. No, I'm talking about Space Invaders Extreme -- a re-visioning of the original game, released this week for the Nintendo DS and PSP by Square Enix (which now owns Tai Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Space Invaders' Remake Takes Retro Gaming to the Limit This is slightly embarrassing to admit, but I'm addicted to ... Space Invaders. Not the 1978-issue game, mind you. No, I'm talking about Space Invaders Extreme -- a re-visioning of the original game, released this week for the Nintendo DS and PSP by Square Enix (which now owns Tai Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |