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WSWS : News & Analysis : Science & Technology
 
Space Research & Astronomy

     

17 April 2008
Britain: Science cuts threaten Jodrell Bank radio telescope

7 July 2007
The Galileo Project: European plans for global navigation supremacy

29 May 2007
Possible habitable planet discovered: Extending the horizons of humanity

20 May 2006
Cuts to NASA budget gut space research

8 August 2005
An extraordinary feat: NASA probe sent plunging into comet

2 August 2005
Astronomers discover new planet, larger and more distant than Pluto

29 July 2005
NASA grounds space shuttle fleet after near-disaster in Discovery launch

4 May 2005
Out of space? NASA delays relaunching of shuttle flights

14 February 2005
Huygens probe lands on Titan: a scientific leap for mankind

26 July 2004
Cassini-Huygens spacecraft begins systematic exploration of Saturn system

24 March 2004
Intriguing new discoveries on Mars

13 March 2004
Bush administration cancels maintenance of Hubble Space Telescope

19 January 2004
Bush promises the Moon (and Mars) but offers only rhetoric

Scientific triumph on Mars as Spirit lands and explores surface

22 September 2003
The Columbia Space Shuttle disaster: science and the profit system
Part 3--Political and economic causes underlying the accident

20 September 2003
The Columbia Space Shuttle disaster: science and the profit system
Part 2: Schedule pressures undermined safety considerations

19 September 2003
The Columbia Space Shuttle disaster: science and the profit system
Part 1: The physical cause of the accident and the decay of shuttle infrastructure

4 February 2003
The Columbia tragedy: NASA, Congress, Bush ignored safety warnings

5 September 2000
Scientists find hints of ocean on Jupiter's moon

18 August 2000
Discovery of nine new planets extends possibility of finding extra terrestrial life

24 June 2000
New scientific study suggests
Water, flash floods and new possibilities for life on Mars

7 June 2000
Shuttle crew repairs International Space Station, but ISS's troubles on earth continue

5 January 2000
Six new extra-solar planets discovered using new technique

22 July 1999
Letters on the Moon landing anniversary

20 July 1999
The Moon landings in historical perspective

3 July 1999
An exchange of letters with Cari Sagan Greene, sister of the late scientist Carl Sagan

22 April 1999
First extra-solar planetary system discovered

17 March 1999
New findings present theoretical challenge
Universe expanding faster than expected

31 December 1998
The International Space Station: a project with enormous scientific potential

8 December 1998
Capitalism in space: Corporate claim on an asteroid

22 October 1998
Hubble telescope captures glimpse of early universe

4 June 1998
The first image of a possible extrasolar planet

5 May 1998
The first evidence of new Earth-like planets

 

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24 June 2000
New scientific study suggests
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4 November 1998
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for
the Origins of Life
by Paul Davies:
Scientific controversies and a
touch of mysticism

13 January 1997
Carl Sagan (1934-1996): An appreciation

 

 

 

 

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