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Seven More For ShenzhouSydney, Australia (SPX) May 11, 2010 Yet another media report from China has confirmed the basics of their latest group of astronauts. Five men and two women are being trained for Shenzhou missions. In keeping with China's typical policy of secrecy, we don't know their names or faces yet, but analysts are making educated guesses from previously disclosed lists of candidates. All the astronauts are experienced pilots from China's Air Force. So far, China has not taken the step of diversifying its astronaut corps with scientists or med ... read more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 10, 2010A French researcher has suggested an aerial map-making technique could be a valuable tool to show where oil from a giant spill is washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico. SHOALS-1000 has been used by the US military to map coastlines but never before to measure an oil slick's presence on shore, said Antoine Cottin, a 34-year-old researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. The tech ... more  
Munich, Germany (SPX) May 11, 2010Less noise, less exhaust, less refuse - air travel of the future is expected to be quieter, cleaner and more environmentally friendly. To achieve this goal, new structural concepts and aerodynamic profiles have to be engineered, along with better drive concepts as well as adapted logistical designs, and then put to use. In the EU project Clean Sky, Fraunhofer researchers want to make their ... more  
Brussels (UPI) May 10, 2010 European leaders Monday agreed on a massive rescue package of nearly $1 trillion to battle the debt crisis threatening Europe's financial and economic stability. At the end of an extraordinary 10-hour meeting, finance ministers from the European Union Monday agreed to provide $560 billion in new loans and $76 billion under an existing lending program to those eurozone countries that nee ... more |
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Euro air traffic controllers warn of shifting ash cloudBrussels (AFP) May 10, 2010 European air traffic controllers said there would be about 500 fewer flights taking to the skies on Monday, as Portuguese authorities said Lisbon airport re-opened a day before the pope flies in. "According to the forecasts, during the afternoon areas of higher ash concentration could move in a north-easterly direction from the Atlantic into the Iberian Peninsula," Brussels-based Eurocontrol said in a statement. The eruption of the Eyjafjoell volcano in Iceland, which caused travel chaos worldwi ... read more |
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