From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 09:00:32 PST
SPACE TRAVEL
- Take A Chance To Write The Future
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/esa-general-02n.html
Paris - Nov 06, 2002 - From Cyrano de Bergerac's 17th century trip to the Moon and Jules Verne's 19th century Nautilus submarine right up to William Gibson's navigations through cyberspace and Kim Stanley Robinson's colonisation of Mars, authors have always signposted the shape of things to come.
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SPACE SCIENCE
- Mission To Venus Gets Kiss Of Life
http://spacedaily.com/news/021106181815.iemehw0i.html
Paris (AFP) Nov 06, 2002 - The European Space Agency (ESA) said Wednesday it had revived a plan to send a probe to Venus, one of the Solar System's least-explored planets, after resolving a funding crisis that had forced it to abandon the scheme.
- Ghosts Found In Space
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-tech-02m.html
Paris (ESA) Nov 04, 2002 - For Halloween this year, watch out for some real ghosts cruising through space, destined never to 'cross over' to the other side. These ghosts are scientific satellites that have reached the end of their mission and experts have turned off all their instruments. Other satellites cross over into the Earth's atmosphere to be burned up on reentry, but these satellites will float on silently through the eerie darkness of space forever.
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