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Triumph and tragedy: LIFE and the Space Race
2008-04-07 19:18:00 Part five in a series. LIFE?s portrayal of the space race represented, in most respects, a logical extension of its war coverage. Many of the space program?s early goals were military in nature, and as in World War II, technology was once again both demon and messiah, depending on whether it was theirs or ours. . . .Sputnik proved that there were great military, as well as scientific, advances in the U.S.S.R. Getting their heavy satellite up meant that Russia had developed a more powerful rocket than any the U.S. had yet fired and substantial Soviet claims of success with an intercontinental missile. Putting Sputnik into a precise orbit meant Russia had solved important problems of guidance necessary to aim its missiles at U.S. targets. The satellite could also be the forerunner of a system of observation posts which would watch the U.S. unhindered and with deadly accuracy (10/21/57, 24). Space promised many nonmilitary boons, insisted the experts (10/21/57). Satellites could a...
Is a new space race in the making?
2008-03-14 14:25:00 According to U.S. officials, the shooting down of their satellite took place at a low orbit, meaning the resultant cloud of debris would mostly fall into the atmosphere and burn up. The Chinese anti-satellite missile left a cloud of debris in a higher orbit. Analysts worry that that the U.S. move might provide other nations an ...
By: 1913 Intel
First Ten Teams Announced For Google Space Race
2008-02-25 18:07:00 InsideGoogle – The first ten teams have been announced for Google?s Lunar X Prize, its competition for a civilian flight to the moon. Vying for the $30 million prize are groups from Romania, Carnegie Mellon University, Italy and other diverse origins, ... read more
The New Space Race: China vs. US
2008-02-13 18:26:00 Both the U.S. and China have announced intentions of returning humans to the moon by 2020 at the earliest. And the two countries are already in the early stages of a new space race that appears to have some of the heat and skullduggery of the one between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War, ...
By: 1913 Intel
The Great Astrospies Space Race
2008-02-11 17:30:00 Imagine for a moment orbital space stations that house astronauts and have telescopic lenses not pointed towards the stars, but rather down onto the earth. Maybe some of these space stations have guns mounted to them so as to ward off possible enemy attacks. It may sound a little out there, possibly even like the plot of a James Bond film (in reality it's similar to a couple of James Bond film plots), but the ideas were drawn up during the height of the cold war. The Soviets even launched their gun-mounted space station and managed to take some photos. This week's Nova episode delves into the story of the Soviet and U.S. "astrospies." According to the episode, the United States came up with the plan for their astronaut-spies after processing a roll of film that came back from a camera up in space and rather than seeing Soviet missile sites saw the tops of clouds. The theory was that a person in space would have had the good sense not to photograph the clouds ...
Space Race: Misplaced Priority?
2007-11-29 15:07:00 The U.S. relies on 42 Earth-observing satellites to monitor air pollution, plant cover, and global warming trends, but the future of these instruments is in peril. The number of working satellite sensors will decline 40% by 2010, and the next generation of sensors won't be sophisticated enough to ad
Is NASA Trying To Provoke A Space Race?
2007-10-24 19:16:00 Despite the fact that NASA has gained additional funding for its quest towards the stars, the space agency faces an enormous problem.With a major Presidental candidate expressing disinterest in returning humans to the Moon, and Congress against sending Americans to Mars, NASA may be attempting to spark interest in human space exploration by promoting America's Asian rival.(Orlando Sentinel) Aides acknowledge that Griffin -- like the rest of the space community -- is hoping for some kind of a "Sputnik moment," an event capable of driving public demand for space exploration as the Soviet Union's launch of the first satellite did 50 years ago. And recently, he has been warning that America is already falling behind China's aggressive space program. ...But there is considerable question whether Griffin's invocation of China -- or even his assertion that space exploration is important to U.S. national security -- will move a Congress or a public that each year seems less enthusiast...
By: Colony Worlds
From the Start, the Space Race Was an Arms Race
2007-09-25 16:01:00 That duality held firm for much of the ensuing half century. Washington publicly encouraged peaceful uses of space even while spending billions to explore futuristic weaponry like death rays fired from rocket ships. By and large, those arms remained as fictional as those in “The War of the Worlds.” But analysts say the Bush administration is now tilting the balance toward deploying real armaments, mainly antimissile interceptors that would speed into space to smash enemy warheads. But it also wants to loft jets that can shoot deadly laser beams and orbital battle stations that can hurl swarms of lethal munitions. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
Japanese Moon Shot Heats Up Asian Space Race
2007-09-24 10:01:00 With the picture-perfect launch of the pioneering SELENE lunar exploration probe from a Mitsubishi H-IIA rocket, Japan has made a stunning return to space while answering the challenge of neighboring China's bold program. read more
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Carnegie Mellon signs up for robot space race
2007-09-17 17:42:00 LOS ANGELES–The Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon, has drawn its first contestant. Not even an hour after the prize was announced here Thursday at the Wired NextFest, Carnegie Mellon University robotics pioneer Red Whittaker said he’s putting together a team to build a rover that can snag the $20 million prize. ...
Space Race Rekindled? Russia Shoots for Moon, Mars
2007-09-03 16:04:00 The Russian space agency announced a plan to send a man to the moon by 2025, to establish a permanent base there a few years later, and possibly even send a man to Mars by 2035, in an aggressive plan reminiscent of the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
MySpace Race 2007
2007-05-11 04:18:00 MySpace "town hall meetings" with presidential candidates--a last-ditch effort to mobilize a generation of internet addicted slackers, or a desperate plan to hijack the electoral process? There's only one way to find out, and that is to visit this blog repeatedly for days on end. (these robots are indeed from space)Meanwhile, we can tell you that Chris Dodd, Hillary Rodham Clinton, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Barack Obama are some of the participants in this program to be perpetrated from September through December. Candidates are trying to reach more people, and myspace has the people all locked up in their "own" "spaces" and ready to be confronted directly by the frank and honest duplicity of these personable candidates. Chris Dodd, Hillary Rodham Clinton, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Barack Obama are some of the participants in this program to be perpetrated from September through December. Do I seem negative about this? ...
By: BLACK DOG PRESS
Duncan Hunter Believes China Has Started A New Space Race With America
2007-04-15 20:33:00 Presidential candidate and Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee was in Alabama last week speaking to the Alabama Federation of Republican Women. In addition to the common campaign issues and his typical discussion about immigration, Hunter also discussed the looming problem of China: He’s concerned about China becoming the next superpower, and particularly ...
By: 2008 Central
Latest spy satellite launches Japan back into Asia?s space race
2007-02-26 23:40:04 TOKYO: After nearly a decade of trying, Japan has succeeded in establishing a network of spy satellites that can peer in on any point on the globe once a day, officials said Monday. The successful launch Saturday of the fourth and final satellite in the spy network significantly boosts Japan’s ability to independently gather intelligence on trouble spots anywhere on the globe, and re-establishes Tokyo as a major player in Asia’s accelerating space race. Previously, Japan had to rely more heavily on its main ally, the United States. Link to this article. ---Related Articles at 1913 Intel:Iran 'launches rocket into space' China Asat Test Called Worst Single Debris Event EverJapan's Stealthy MilitaryChina: Cheney Shores Up the Trilateral AllianceThe big picture in Asia
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