SETI public: Fw: Bush to announce return to Moon / New postcard from Mars

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REPORTS: BUSH TO ANNOUNCE MISSIONS TO MOON AND MARS
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Various Washington news reports, confirmed by Spaceflight Now, say
President George W. Bush will make a revolutionary speech about the U.S.
space program next week. The stories say voyages to the moon will resume,
followed by the first human expedition to Mars.

  http://spaceflightnow.com/
   

EFFORTS CONTINUE TO CLEAR AIRBAG FROM ROVER'S DRIVEWAY
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Engineers are having problems fully retracting partially collapsed airbags
under the Spirit rover's landing platform that may hamper efforts to drive
the vehicle straight off and onto the martian surface. Other exit routes
are available, however, and mission manager Matt Wallace said he believed
Spirit could simply drive over the airbag material with no problems.

  http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040108airbags.html

LATEST MARS 'POSTCARD' MAILED FROM SPIRIT ROVER
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NASA released a new color view of the Gusev Crater landing site on
Thursday. The horizon is seen at an angle due to the several-degree tilt
of the lander deck while engineers work to further retract the airbags.

  http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html

SPIRIT'S LANDING SITE MORE COMPLEX THAN FIRST THOUGHT
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More ultra-sharp views of the floor of Gusev Crater show a surprisingly
rolling, rock-strewn landscape that bears little resemblance to the
relatively smooth, wind-swept lakebed investigators thought they saw in
initial, low-resolution images. Lakebed deposits may well be present, a
mission scientist said Wednesday, but they may be more difficult to find
than first thought.

  http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040107sitecomplex.html

CHANDRA LOCATES PLANETARY ORE IN COLLIDING GALAXIES
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered rich deposits of neon,
magnesium and silicon in a pair of colliding galaxies known as The
Antennae. When the clouds containing these elements cool, an exceptionally
high number of stars with planets should form. These results may
foreshadow the fate of our Milky Way and its future collision with the
Andromeda Galaxy.

  http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/07collision/

TOO FAST, TOO FURIOUS: A GALAXY'S FATAL PLUNGE
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Trailing 200,000-light-year-long streamers of seething gas, a galaxy that
was once like our Milky Way is being shredded as it plunges at 4.5 million
miles per hour through the heart of a distant cluster of galaxies. In this
unusually violent collision with ambient cluster gas, the galaxy is
stripped down to its skeletal spiral arms as it is eviscerated of fresh
hydrogen for making new stars.

  http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/07plunge/

FIRST ROCKET LAUNCH OF 2004 TO FLY SATURDAY NIGHT
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A new satellite to link Brazil with its northern neighbors is awaiting
launch Saturday night from a platform anchored in the remote stretches of
the tropical Pacific Ocean. Liftoff of the Estrela do Sul 1 communications
spacecraft aboard the Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket is scheduled for 11:13
p.m. EST (0413 GMT).

  http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/estreladosul1/status.html

BORAX MINERALS MAY HAVE BEEN KEY TO START EARTH LIFE
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Astrobiologists, supported by NASA, have announced a major advance in
understanding how life may have originated on Earth billions of years ago

  http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/08borax/

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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/status.html">LATEST MARS 'POSTCARD' MAILED FROM SPIRIT ROVER</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040107sitecomplex.html">SPIRIT'S LANDING SITE MORE COMPLEX THAN FIRST THOUGHT</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/07collision/">CHANDRA LOCATES PLANETARY ORE IN COLLIDING GALAXIES</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/07plunge/">TOO FAST, TOO FURIOUS: A GALAXY'S FATAL PLUNGE</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/estreladosul1/status.html">FIRST ROCKET LAUNCH OF 2004 TO FLY SATURDAY NIGHT</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/08borax/">BORAX MINERALS MAY HAVE BEEN KEY TO START EARTH LIFE</a>

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