HEADLINES IN BRIEF
September 30, 2002 --------- MARSDAILY - Exploring Mars Beyond 2010 http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-general-02f1.html Los Angeles - Sept 30, 2002 - In 2001, NASA invited five major aerospace firms to develop designs for sample return missions and estimate their cost. But at nearly a $2 billion a pop the Bush Administration said no way. Meanwhile, the sheer technical difficulty of such missions, and the huge number of completely new and as-yet untested technologies required, 2016 looks the earliest scientists will get to unbox pristine Martian rocks. In this six part special report Bruce Moomaw brings SpaceDaily readers a detailed review of NASA's plans for Mars in the next decade. ---------- TERRADAILY - Kingdom Of Everest Fears End Of Dolphins http://www.spacedaily.com/news/020929040301.xo7930nc.html ---------- TECH SPACE - Space Is Big, But Not Big Enough http://www.spacedaily.com/news/debris-02a.html Paris (ESA) Sep 30, 2002 - According to Douglas Adams, in his famous book The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, space is big. However, it seems near-Earth space is not big enough. |
