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...unmanned probe called Lunar Prospector can squeeze through a four-minute launch window that begins at 8:31 p.m. EST Monday, the low-cost, low-profile unmanned probe will orbit the Moon, examine the surface for evidence of frozen water and analyze minerals and gases...
...Again A Russian launch rocket fumbles its $100M cargo. Is the cash-poor Russian Space Agency just plain unreliable...
MOSCOW: When a booster on a Russian-made Proton-K rocket failed six hours into launch Friday, a $100 million U.S.-built communications satellite was lost in space. The Russian Space Agency looks to be close behind. The satellite, built by Hughes Space & Communications International in El Segundo, Calif., was fully insured, and a replacement will be ready in two years. But this was the third major failure of the DM-3 booster in the two years that the RSA has been carrying foreign satellites into space for desperately needed cash (charging about $70M a ride). Will Hughes ask again...
...first to note that his dogs of the Dow--so named because high yields signal out-of-favor stocks--"have become too popular and the market has become too high" for the gambit to keep working. O'Higgins is now writing another book and next month will launch a mutual fund on a different scheme through Valley Forge Funds (888-600-4537). This one has him 100% in bonds...
...week's AIDS Awareness Week activities continue with events such as a meeting to develop and launch the Harvard AIDS Memorial in the Dudley House Private Dining Room at 1 p.m. today and showings of two AIDS documentaries "No Regrets" and "All God's Children" in the Dudley House graduate student lounge at 6 and 6:30 p.m. today