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They may be the only construction crew in the universe not to get overtime, but astronauts Tamara Jernigan and Dr. Daniel Barry weren't complaining after a few glitches extended their space walk in and around the embryonic International Space Station by two hours. "You can't be telling me we're almost done," Barry said before ducking back inside the space shuttle Discovery at the end of the eight-hour free-float. "Wow. It feels like we just walked outside." The mission was mostly a prep for the crews to come: setting up space scaffolding, attaching cranes and hanging...
Earlier this week, members of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) research team announced a new estimate for the universe's age, in one of the team's greatest achievements since the telescope's launch nine years...
Finding the Hubble constant was "a driving force" behind the design of the Hubble telescope, and the primary goal of the Hubble telescope mission, said Ed Weiler, NASA associate administrator for space science...
...would be my parting salvo against injustices here and elsewhere. Instead, I went to see "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace." I decided to use the Star Wars "phenomenon" as a lens through which to examine some of the joy and wonder I've tried to write about in this space this past semester. Warning: if you haven't seen "The Phantom Menace," spoilers ahead...
Steve Bryen is the Yoda of the arms trade. Formerly the Defense Department's export czar, he knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril -- as executives of Space Systems/Loral found out. A 700-page report to be issued this week by a select House committee chaired by Republican representative Christopher Cox of California tells how, on April 11, 1996, Bryen warned Loral president Robert Berry not to give China any technical help without first getting State Department permission. Berry had just announced the assignment of top company engineer Wah Lim to head a panel...