Soyuz the Russia soon make only lifeline to space (the Arizona Republic)

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP)--As Soyouz un engin spatial roule lentement à son tableau de bord dans les steppes froids glaciales du Kazakhstan, même le plus chevronné ventilateur de l'espace ne peut pas aider mais être maison du docteur Edwardes par la sight.With de la NASA enfin sa retraite le programme de la navette l'an prochain, le vénérable bête de somme russe est maintenant définie pour devenir seule bouée de sauvetage la planète pour la station spatiale internationale. Cette situation est provoquer des sentiments d'inquiétude sur la dépendance excessive sur le programme spatial et de l'admiration durable pour la résistance de la fusée Soyouz soviétique-conçu par la Russie.Le véhicule est un accidenté 'un truc poney' aucun caprices ou du luxe et peut prendre toute léchage et conserver en cochant, » dit James Oberg, un vétéran de contrôle de mission de navette spatiale de la NASA en Houston.The prochaine mission Soyouz commence jeudi, lorsque l'astronaute de la NASA Catherine Coleman, cosmonaute russe Dmitry Kondratyev et Paolo Nespoli l'Agence spatiale européenne, de l'Italie décoller depuis le cosmodrome de Baïkonour au sud de Kazakhstan.In une procédure polie en plus de quatre décennies de lancements de Soyouz, la fusée horizontalement a été mis hors de son hangar dans un train à plat à 7 h, heure locale lundi et soigneusement effectué sur le site de blastoff dans le contraste de darkness.In de l'hiver à la navette ailée distinctive de la NASA, qui est réutilisable, quoique démesurément onéreuse pour l'exploitation, le lanceur Soyouz ne peut être utilisée une fois. C'est un métier relativement simplifié consistant en une petite capsule assis au sommet de rappel puissant rockets.The nom, qui vient du mot russe pour "union", a la fois un hommage à sa conception soviétique et une référence à la capacité de la fusée Soyouz quai avec les autres modules. Que détail était qu'un absolu doit même pour commencer à penser à long terme des missions spatiales ou voyage possible au-delà de orbit.Whereas de la terre, la que viabilité de la navette a été paralysée par d'innombrables retards, la dernière fois un Soyouz lancement a été reportée était aussi loin que 1971.Yet pour sa fiabilité, le premier lancement Soyouz en avril 1967, a tourné au drame lorsque le colonel Vladimir Komarov, le cosmonaute seul à bord, est décédé le re-entry.Soviet autorités avait augmenté alarmé par les progrès de la U.S. dans la course de l'espace et avait poussé pour le déploiement hâtive de la fusée Soyouz, avant que les États-Unis pourraient obtenir sa fusée Apollo au large de la ground.That Soyouz catastrophe conduit à un report immédiat des vols habités et injecté un nouvel esprit de prudence dans le programme spatial soviétique. Une minute attention aux détails, plus évidente dans obsession des fonctionnaires spatiale russe exécute des opérations sur un calendrier compté en quelques secondes, a gagné le Soyouz une réputation bien méritée pour la sécurité. »Mon plus grand rêve dans la vie a toujours été de voler en orbite un jour, mais je peux vous dire que je me sentirais un enfer de beaucoup plus à l'aise dans une fusée Soyouz que dans une navette,"espace historien Bert Vis said.Despite ces mentions souvent entendu, un embrayage d'incidents au cours des dernières années a suscité des préoccupations. Plus particulièrement, des problèmes avec module de service de la capsule Soyouz au cours d'un atterrissage en avril 2008, a provoqué une trajectoire de rentrée dangereusement abruptes, placé le concassage de pression gravitationnelle sur ses crew.Ahead de trois personnes de regarder le Soyouz étant monté en place dans le tableau de bord, lundi, astronaute de la NASA Peggy Whitson, qui se sont rendus à bord qui capsule, dit le luxe offerte par la navette serait en effet manquer. »Le lanceur Soyouz est le type d'un lancement plus doux, mais j'aimerais beaucoup terres plutôt dans une navette, parce qu'il est beaucoup plus civilisée, "Whitson said.Critics se plaignent aussi qu'en laissant se sont donc fortement tributaires de la fusée Soyouz, aux États-Unis pourraient devenir les victimes d'onéreux de tarification abusive aux mains des autorités spatiale russe. »Moscou a déjà l'utilise pour l'effet de levier et a soulevé le prix de la NASA à plusieurs reprises au cours des années, 50 millions de dollars, a déclaré Brian Harvey, un expert sur l'histoire du programme spatial russe. « Mais une navette lancer des coûts de 550 millions de dollars par go, il est toujours bon. »Et alors que le programme spatial russe est défini pour profiter de presque un monopole complet sur les gens transportaient dans l'espace pour les prochaines années, les choses pourraient changer. Le lancement de l'essai avec succès la semaine dernière d'une fusée privé développée depuis Cap Canaveral est un exemple clair de comment le marché pourrait se reproduire viable espace concurrents. »Si nouveau, commercialement développé des systèmes de transport spatial dans l'Ouest saute-mouton le rappel russe a tenté-et-true stable dans la prochaine décennie, la Russie restera avec aucune capacité importante d'intérêt pour les clients étrangers,"Oberg said.The politique et l'économie de voyages dans l'espace est habituellement loin de l'esprit des astronautes, cependant, et au cosmodrome de Baïkonour, la plupart apprécier le plaisir d'assister l'ingéniosité qui va en assemblant les roquettes.Michel-Ange qui dit que la sculpture est toujours à l'intérieur de la roche, j'ai juste d'enlever les éléments inutiles. Le lanceur Soyouz est une des ces sculptures, a déclaré l'astronaute canadien Chris Hadfield, qui a l'intention de voler à la station spatiale internationale à bord un vaisseau spatial Soyouz en 2012.

Glover leads Iona on Fairleigh Dickinson 87-66 (the Arizona Republic)

NEW ROCHELLE, New York (AP)-Mike Glover scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as Iona defeated Fairleigh Dickinson 87 - 66 Saturday its seventh victory in a row.It was sixth double-double of the advanced junior this season for the Gaels (7-3) 16 points, Scott Machado added 13 points and eight help, Chris Pelcher obtained 12 points obtained Smyth .Kyle Jermel Jenkins had nine points and eight assists for Iona, which made 62.5% (20 to 32) of his shots in the first half, when he took a 49-27 and Pelcher lead.Glover each scored two baskets for a 21-4 first half run when the Gaels increases a 8-5-29-9 lead. They never directed by less than 12 points for the remainder of the game.Nate Gibbs received 13 points and Kamil Svrdlik 12 lead Fairleigh Dickinson (3-5). Knights turning the ball more than 23 times to Iona 13.

Nature of the coming attractions: the meteor shower (the Arizona Republic)

CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - Florida stay listening to nature attraction. Next week at the beginning, the shower meteors these will make its appearance annual, just in time for Christmas. Astronomers consider best meteor shower of the year, with more than 100 meteors streak in the sky at night that each peak of the meteor shower hour.The held Tuesday at the beginning, between midnight and dawn, local time. The show will be better in the northern hemisphere, easily visible with the eye.The NU Geminids are actually Rocky celestial backorders. Each December, Earth passes through this stream of 3200 Phaethon, once believed to be an asteroid and now considered extinct Comet - or iceless debris. Meteors or shooting stars may appear anywhere, but always seem to fall in the constellation of Gemini, therefore their name.Meteors occur when the bits of particles enter the atmosphere and burn, incoming fireballs.For those unwilling to stay until the end – or get up early - it must be a decent showing Monday after the games Sun. In fact, some meteors should be visible in the night sky from December 12 to 16, as long as the sky is clear, according to NASA.And appears to be a warm-up for the Lunar Eclipse total coming from the night of December 20 and wee hours on 21 December, depending on your timezone. It will be the only full Lunar Eclipse of the year and the whole event will be visible in North America, Central America, South America, some Greenland and Iceland. - online: NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/geminids2010.html

Nature of the coming attractions: the meteor shower (the Arizona Republic)

CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - Florida stay listening to nature attraction. Next week at the beginning, the shower meteors these will make its appearance annual, just in time for Christmas. Astronomers consider best meteor shower of the year, with more than 100 meteors streak in the sky at night that each peak of the meteor shower hour.The held Tuesday at the beginning, between midnight and dawn, local time. The show will be better in the northern hemisphere, easily visible with the eye.The NU Geminids are actually Rocky celestial backorders. Each December, Earth passes through this stream of 3200 Phaethon, once believed to be an asteroid and now considered extinct Comet - or iceless debris. Meteors or shooting stars may appear anywhere, but always seem to fall in the constellation of Gemini, therefore their name.Meteors occur when the bits of particles enter the atmosphere and burn, incoming fireballs.For those unwilling to stay until the end – or get up early - it must be a decent showing Monday after the games Sun. In fact, some meteors should be visible in the night sky from December 12 to 16, as long as the sky is clear, according to NASA.And appears to be a warm-up for the Lunar Eclipse total coming from the night of December 20 and wee hours on 21 December, depending on your timezone. It will be the only full Lunar Eclipse of the year and the whole event will be visible in North America, Central America, South America, some Greenland and Iceland. - online: NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/geminids2010.html

Japan probe reaches Venus, prepares to enter orbit (the Arizona Republic)

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TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese space probe sent to the thick clouds of Venus shut itself down, and its future looks as hazy as the planet it was built to study.The probe, called Akatsuki, which means "dawn," reached Venus on Tuesday to orbit earthâ neighbor is a two-year mission. Aim communication problems left scientists in the dark about whether it was successfully orbit.An American scientist on the probe's research team said the probe shut itself down and is partially in safe mode. "That means it is sending back signals indicating it is alive, but not transmitting any data.At first controllers back on Earth lost contact with the probe and got modulating signals indicating that spaceship may be wobbling a bit, said Sanjay Limaye, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who is one of five American scientists on the Akatsuki research team.But after a few hours, engineers at NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA, were able to lock on probe the's signal and found it shut itself down to protect itself, Limaye said.""That means at least things are looking better if not perfectly the best," he would be the first time Japan has ever placed said.It a spacecraft into orbit around another planet and comes after the country recently brought a probe back from a trip to an asteroid. Russia, the United States and the Europeans have successfully explored other planets. The Russian space program has been sending missions to Venus since 1961 with more than 30 attempts. "Its early missions were marred with many failures.Limaye said it was unclear if the probe was successfully inserted into orbit around Venus, but Gerald Schubert, a University of California, Los Angeles, scientist who is on the probe team, said he thinks it is in some kind of orbit around the hazy planet.""There appears to be a problem, but exactly what the problem is I'm not sure" Schubert said.Japan has long been one of the world's leading space-faring nations. It was the first Asian country to put a satellite in orbit around the Earth – in 1970 — and has developed a highly reliable booster rocket in its H - 2 series.In recent years Japan has been overshadowed by the big strides of China, which has put astronauts in space twice since 2003 and was the third country to send a human into orbit after Russia and the United States.Japan's space program has never attempted manned flight and instead operates on a shoestring budget that focuses primarily on small-scale scientific projects.Akatsuki, launched may 20, is designed to monitor volcanic activity on Venus and provide data on its thick cloud cover and climate, including whether the planet has lightning. The probe is equipped with infrared cameras and other instruments to carry out its mission.The 25 trillion yen ($300 million) project is supposed to maintain an elliptical orbit around Venus, ranging from passes 190 miles (300 kilometers) from the planet's surface to outer swings 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers) away that will allow it to comprehensively monitor weather patterns.One journal mysteries scientists are hoping to clear up is the intensity of surface winds on Venus that are believed to reach up to speeds of 220 miles per hour (360 kilometers per hour) .Inserting the probe into orbit would be a big success for Japan, which previously failed in an effort to put probes around March. The Mars mission, called Nozomi, or "hope," and launched in 1998 experienced a series of technical glitches.The program got a big moral boost earlier this year with the successful return to Earth in June of the probe Hayabusa. The probe successfully captured dust from an asteroid for the first time in history, bringing back microscopic samples from the Itokawa asteroid that could offer insight into the creation and makeup of the solar system.It is only the fourth set of samples to be returned from space in history - including matter collected by the Apollo moon missions, comet material by Stardust, and solar matter from the Genesis mission.The spacecraft's capsule landed successfully in the Australian Outback in June after a seven-year, 4-billion-mile (6-trillion-kilometer) journey.The Venus mission also follows Japan's first lunar probe, which completed a 19-month mission last year. The lunar project gathered data for a detailed map of the moon's surface and examined its mineral distribution.NASA has launched several probes that have orbited other planets: Pioneer Venus in 1978, Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 and Messenger, which is expected to settle into orbit around Mercury in 2011. The European Space Agency's Mars Express successfully reached orbit in 2003, while its Venus Express completed the maneuver in 2006 - Science Writer Seth Borenstein reported from Washington

Car crashes in the school... 6 children evil (the Arizona Republic)

TERRYTOWN, La "(AP) - a car because slammed by a wall in a room where six children were playing in primary school private outside of New Orleans and injured them all, criticism, said.Children authorities were rescued by sub rubble and under the front of the 2011 Infiniti, said colonel John Fortunato, a Jefferson Office.He, Parish Sheriff's spokesman said the driver, a mother dropping off the coast of a child for Stepping Stones Montessori School," says that as it rose, she thought as she stepped on the brake but advanced vehicle. "Hamed Jamleh 32, Harvey, was quoted negligence, injury he said.No another was in the room, describing it as a large open when space Hamed relieved space parking less than a foot away. The car ran parking bumpers and everything in the room, only its trunk and a rear wheel outside.Hamed was quoted a negligent injury, because the injuries were so severe, Fortunato said.Mark Deane of Terrytown said the accident occurred just before arriving to deposit his teachers fils.Les are running. "It seemed wrong," says the Times-Picayune. He said a child in the car and another jammed against the wall. "They were not crying." "they were scared" it said Hamed has been ""disrupted."" "I see him here every day dropping offshore and gathering of the children, "Deane said.A 10-year-old boy was in intensive care in critical condition Wednesday evening and in good condition, 9 years old girl said Cathleen Randon, spokesman for the children's Hospital." Fortunato said two other boys of 10 years and two girls, ages 8 and 6 have been taken to other hospitals in the region after the crash of 8 h 30.

Objective of the climate could spell end for some coral reefs (the Arizona Republic)

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PUERTO MORELOS, Mexico City (AP) - The once-vibrant coral reef shielding these sun-soaked beaches from the wrath of the sea is withering away under the stress of pollution and warmer water.It's not likely to get much help from world governments meeting in Cancun for talks on a new climate pact. "Their so - far elusive goal to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 F) is too little too late, says coral expert Roberto Iglesias.""That represents the end of the coral reefs in the world," says the Mexican scientist, who works at a marine research station in Puerto Morelos, 12 miles (about 20 kilometers) south of the beach resort hosting the annual U.N. climate conference.Coral reefs are like underwater jungles that host 25 percent of marine species and provide food and income to hundreds of millions of people, mostly in the developing world. "They also serve as shock Hydrauliques to storm surges whipped up by hurricanes.But many reefs, including the one off this hotel-packed coastline, have been damaged by water pollution and overfishing, leaving them vulnerable to a warming ocean that"bleaches"corals and sometimes kills them, Iglesias said.This year, preliminary reports show global coral bleaching reached its worst level since 1998, when 16 percent of the world's reefs were killed off, said Mark Eakin, a coral reef specialist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.""Clearly, we are on track for this to be the second worst (bleaching) on record," he said. "All we're waiting on now is the body count."The 700-mile (1, 100 - kilometer) Mesoamerican reef that runs along Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula - suffering under other stresses - was spared the bleaching this year, but other parts of the Caribbean were hard hit, including Tobago, Curacao, Panama and islands north of Venezuela.Some of the biggest impacts were in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia's Aceh province, surveys showed some 80 percent of the bleached corals died. In July, Malaysia closed several popular dive sites after virtually all the corals in those areas were damaged by bleaching.Bleaching occurs when warmer temperatures disturb the symbiotic relationship between the corals and tiny algae that live inside them. "When the algae are spit out, rainbow-colored reefs are turned into blade and lifeless skeletons - a"hideous"sight for veteran scuba variety like 52-year-old Eakin.""You can't imagine what it's like to jump in the water and expect beautiful vibrant colors and all the corals are white," he said.One Gold 2 degrees C (1. 8-3. 6 degrees F) above normal can be enough to cause bleaching. Corals may recover if the water cool and the algae return, but they're still significantly weaker and more vulnerable to disease. If the warmer temperatures persist, the corals die.Bleaching occurs due to natural variability. both the 1998 and 2010 events were linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon. But the gradual rise of ocean temperatures means "it doesn't take much to push them over the edge," Eakin said.The World Meteorological Organization says most tropical waters already have seen surface temperatures rise by up to 0.5 C (1 F) in the past 50 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. climate-science network, projects an increasing frequency of bleaching episodes that "is very likely to further reduce both coral cover and diversity are reefs over the next few decades."Many reefs have already been degraded by disease and the impact of human activities, including discharges of fertilizers and waste as well as overfishing of parrotfish and other species that help keep the corals clean and global healthy.The area covered by coral reefs has shrunk by 20 percent since 1950 and another 35 percent could disappear in the next 40 years, even without the impact of climate change, according to a report released in October by the World Meteorological Organization and the Convention on Biological Diversity.Off the Riviera Maya coast south of Cancun, where large swaths of mangrove forests have been cut down to make room for an endless row of beachfront resorts, only 15 percent of the coral reefs are alive, down from about 45 percent in 1995, said Fernando Secaira, who coordinates a Mesoamerican Reef program for the u.s. - based environmental group Nature Conservancy.The biggest problem, he said, is the rapid development, with tens of thousands of hotel rooms added only in the past decade. Fertilizers from lawns and golf courses and sewage from the developments filters through the limestone rock and is washed out onto the reef by underground rivers, altering the balance of the sensitive ecosystem.Secaira said such unhealthy reefs will find it difficult to adjust to warming waters, raising the risk they will be destroyed by bleaching or diseases. "The priority for conservationists is identifying the most resilient reefs, and protecting them as climate change sets in with full force, raising temperatures and acidifying the ocean, which limits the carbonate minerals that help corals grow.Scientists say no emissions cuts being considered by world governments will suffice to prevent that from happening.""We're going to lose more corals and more reefs before this is all over," said Eakin, of NOAA. "The question at this point is how many can we save."

Test flight of the new vessel private sea (the Arizona Republic)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - a test for a new private spacecraft flight is set for Wednesday morning.Space had been designed for Explorations Technologies Corp. for launch from Cape Canaveral Tuesday. But the company called SpaceX, delayed flight to repair cracks in the upper stage rocket nozzle.It will be the first launch of a program of NASA to get supplies to the ISS, by private companies, after a shutdown shuttle flying dragon capsule of next year.SpaceX flight to the space station. Instead, it will circle earth twice in a demonstration flight, then sprayed in the Pacific. This will be the first attempt by a commercial company to retrieve a spacecraft funnels. orbit - online: NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/cots-project.html SpaceX: http://www.spacex.com/