myLot Discussions on US Space Stamp Sheets| Chinese spy racket steals US space technology | |
Naturalised US citizen Shu Quan Sheng, admitted handing over to Beijing information on the design and development of a fuelling system for space launch vehicles between 2003 and 2007, the Justice Department said.Shu, 68, pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act by helping Chinese officials based at the space facility on southern Hainan island to develop manned space flight and future missions to the Moon.http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_303668.htmlThis technology is invaluable for the development of new generation missile systems.Is this a return to the Cold War years? Does China have military and expansionist designs? | |
| | U.S.'s Space Race Future Slowly Unveiled | | Yes its me again! I found one other item I wanted to share and talk about. This one I couldn't skip up because I'm a science and space fan (should be obvious to friends that have gotten to know me).http://www.space.com/news/071219-weldon-nasa-shuttle-retirement.htmlIts a plan unveiled by a U.S. Congressman with some basic items on keeping the space program alive. A few new ideas are there, plus some proposals to improve NASA based on past events.Space and science goers I'd love your opinion on this. Everyone else too of course. Think the spending and spacetravel/research is beneficial to mankind? Think that more should be done, or less? What about other growing nations and their coming role in this area of science? There have been discussions on what can be acquired from the moon and nearby regions of space. I've stated and still think that the research is worth it and the acquisition of some elements and isotopes will greatly benefit mankind. | |
| | | Have Space Shuttle--Will Travel? | | Hello Friends!The Answer to my question is no--not anymore. It's the end of an era. After 29 years the NASA Space Shuttle program will essentially be ended as we know it.Pardon me, but I must be showing my age--as I remember the awe I felt when I saw the first Space Shuttle on TV. So, I guess that's why I feel a bit of nostalgia for the loss of this program--although the costs were always exorbitant!The last Space Shuttle flight will launch on May 31, 2010--and then it will be no more.Please check out this link:http://gizmodo.com/5023085/space-shuttle-final-flight-programmed-may-31-2010So, how do you feel about this next step in the US space program?Do you feel that the space program itself should be discontinued also?
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| | $30 million for his voyage | | U.S. space tourist blasts off in Russian rocket.Soyuz spacecraft lifts off from Kazakhstan for the international space station.Capsule carrying two Americans and a Russian. Computer game millionaire Richard Garriott on board as space tourist.
Do you have a dream you'd like to accomplish? Do you think it is expensive? http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/10/12/space.tourist.ap/index.html | |
| | Technology in Beijing Olympics | | If the Beijing Olympics was China's coming out party, then it was the most technology-fuelled coming-out party ever........ As much as the power of a rising China eager to assert itself in the world stage was on display.it also showed how technology is changing Olympics in a profound way.....Beijing fired over thousand rain dispersal rockets the night before the opening ceremony to blow away rain clouds.... This is the first time that such technology has been used to ensure the weather conditions for olympics.....Four years ago, Athens opened the Games with Olympic rings floating on man-made Aegean Sea..... Beijing opened with a scroll to present China's history..... An LED screen was laid at the centre of the ground for this purpose..... For the first time ever in Olympics opening ceremony, Beijing used a technical monitoring system for program control of more than 18000 performers through their identification codes...
The use of a unique digital ignition control system minimised the time difference of the firework display to a few milli-seconds at more than 30 locations across Beijing.....Beijing Olympics also witnessed the breaking of many world records in swimming... | |
| | Young girl claims she is Kalpana Chawla. REINCARNATION? | | A four-year-old girl who claims her name is Kalpana Chawla and that she died up in the skies four years ago is drawing huge crowds in a village here in Uttar Pradesh. The girl was born two months after the death of Kalpana.Residents of Nar Mohammadpur village, about 35 km from here, where little Upasana is visiting her relatives, think she might be the reincarnation of the India born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died when US space shuttle Columbia crashed four years ago. The news of the girl's claim spread quickly in the area after she spoke to some villagers here. "I am Kalpana Chawla," says Upasana, who reportedly fears the sight an aircraft. She has been telling her illiterate parents that she died in a "crash" up in the skies
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| | Probe to make perilous landing on Mars | | After a nine-month journey through space, the US probe Phoenix is about to land on the arctic surface of Mars to dig for ice in a new quest for signs of life on the Red Planet.NASA's $US420 million ($A439.47 million) probe will become the first spacecraft to land on the Martian arctic surface and will stay there for a three-month mission.After travelling 679 million kilometres through the cosmos, Phoenix will enter the top of the Martian atmosphere at around 2331 GMT Sunday (0931 Monday AEST), zipping in at 21,000km/h to begin a perilous descent that will end with a soft landing seven minutes later.But the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, which controls the mission, will have to wait an agonising 15 minutes for the radio signal confirming the safe landing to reach Earth."This is not a trip to grandma's house. Putting a spacecraft safely on Mars is hard and risky," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate."We do believe that it's a risk worth taking," said F.Li, manager of NASA's Mars Exploration program, "because I think that the science the mission will return with will be... | |
| | Girl claims she is astronaut Kalpana Chawla Reborn .. | | Girl claims she is astronaut Kalpana Chawla reborn -- do you beleive. i have seen this article in ibnlive tv.so i have share this article with all of you ..
Uttar Pradesh: A four-year-old girl who claims her name is Kalpana Chawla
and that she died up in the skies four years ago is drawing huge crowds in a
village here in Uttar Pradesh.
Residents of Nar Mohammadpur village, about 35 km from here, where little
Upasana is visiting her relatives, think she might be the reincarnation of
the India born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died when US space shuttle
Columbia crashed four years ago.
The news of the girl's claim spread quickly in the area after she spoke to
some villagers here. "I am Kalpana Chawla," says Upasana, who reportedly
fears the sight an aircraft. She has been telling her illiterate parents
that she died in a "crash" up in the skies."Upasana has been telling us ever since she started speaking that her name
was Kalpana Chawla and that her father's name was Banarsi Das Chawla but we
could not figure out anything as we had never heard of Kalpana," Upasana's
father Raj Kumar told reporters.
Raj Kumar is a resident of Pata village of Etawah district where he... | |
| | European rocket powers to record | | Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has set a new benchmark for a commercial launch - lifting into orbit a two-satellite payload weighing 9.4 tonnes.The immense, 50m-long vehicle powered away from Kourou in French Guiana at 1929 local time (2229 GMT). The Astra 1L and Galaxy 17 platforms it put in space will deliver TV and other services to Europe and North America.Friday's mission represented the second launch of the year for the Ariane 5 and its 32nd flight overall. The launch was delayed by a day because of poor weather over the spaceport on Thursday.The rocket is the workhorse of Europe's commercial launch service, operated by the French-based Arianespace company. In its heavy-lift, or ECA, configuration, the vehicle produces 13,000 kilonewtons of thrust at launch - equivalent to 20 Concorde jets at take-off.Watching the launch in Kourou was US space agency (Nasa) Administrator Dr Mike Griffin.The Nasa chief came to see the rocket that will begin to supply the International Space Station later this year. Europe is preparing a new cargo ship called the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which will carry 7.5 tonnes of experimental equipment, spare parts, food, air and... | |
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