International
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InternationalChandrayaan-1 Enters Lunar Orbit; Then Indian Space Agency Probe Strikes Lunar Surface For Dust Sample
Flag Of India Is Planted On Moon The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) unmanned spaceship Chandrayaan-1 entered lunar orbit successfully, ISRO announced. Then the spaceship ejected a lunar craft called […]
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CongressObering Steps Down From Missile Defense Agency; General Is ‘Encouraged’ Obama Backs Missile Defense, But Longer-Range Iranian Missiles Worrisome
General Warns That Delaying Missile Defense Such As In Europe Would ‘Severely Hurt’ Ability To Defend United States, Allies Against Enemies U.S.-European Missile Defense Scheduled To Be Operational By 2013, […]
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Business/FinancialTauscher Says Missile Defense Shield Doesn’t Deter Rogue Nations From Developing Missile Forces; Therefore, What Is The Point Of Creating Missile Defense?
U.S. Nuclear Weapons May No Longer Provide Credible Deterrence, Tauscher Says, Urging Nukes Reduction Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), whose subcommittee oversees U.S. missile defense efforts, today questioned the value of […]
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Business/Financial
Griffin Awaits Two Studies Detailing How To Shrink Five-Year NASA Travel Gap
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin is awaiting two studies probing how to shrink the yawning half-decade gap when NASA won’t be able to take even one astronaut to low Earth orbit. […]
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Homeland Security
Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Would Devastate U.S.; More Casualties Than Nuclear Attack; But EMP Attack Could Be Defeated By Missile Defense
A rogue state or terrorists could launch an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States that would kill more Americans than a nuclear strike on a major city, but […]
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Business/Financial
Medvedev, Sarkozy, Back Off From Harsh Anti-American Rhetoric Aimed At European Missile Defense, In G-20 Summit
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, coming to the United States for a Group of 20 Nations summit confronting economic issues, backed off from their prior harsh […]
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Homeland Security
Chinese Military Officer Says China, If It Acquires Aircraft Carrier, Won’t Use It To Project Power Across Globe
A senior Chinese military officer said if China acquires an aircraft carrier or two, it will merely be to protect the Chinese homeland, not to project power across the globe, […]
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Homeland Security
Construction Advances Markedly At Iranian Heavy Water Reactor: Study
Iran is moving ahead solidly with construction of a little-noticed heavy water reactor, a new study by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) discloses. If Iran can succeed […]
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International
Space Shuttle Endeavour Docks With International Space Station After Flawless Launch, Ascent From Kennedy
Space Shuttle Endeavour thundered to the heavens and docked with the International Space Station to begin a major makeover of the orbiting laboratory. While the blazing, on-time launch at 7:55 […]
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Business/Financial
Sea Launch Receives SICRAL 1B Satellite For Launch In January
Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite at the payload processing facility at the Sea Launch home port in the Port of Long Beach. With additional arrivals […]