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Shuttle Atlantis Lands
The space shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center following a 12-day construction mission to the international space station. |
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Atlantis Landing Delayed
NASA delays landing the space shuttle Atlantis after engineers detect a mystery object outside the shuttle; weather at the Florida landing site also is a concern. |
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Pluto Is Demoted
Leading astronomers declare that Pluto is no longer defined as a planet. |
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Senate Loosens Stem Cell Ban
The United States Senate votes 63-37 to loosen President George W. Bush's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. This is a move that Bush has indicated he intends to veto. |
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Fossett Sets New Record
Adventurer Steve Fossett announces that he has broken the record for flying farther than anyone departing and landing at the same spot. He travelled more than 25,000 miles (40,225 kilometers) in three days in his GlobalFlyer aircraft. Fossett said he became restless during his three days in the plane and will retire the GlobalFlyer and give it to the Smithsonian Institution. |
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Intelligent Design Struck Down
A US Federal judge rules that "intelligent design" cannot be included in biology courses taught in Pennsylvania public schools. |
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Boeing Finalizes 787 Body
One year to the day after the launch of the program, Boeing freezes the final look of the external 787 Dreamliner Design. |
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Asteroid May Impact Earth in 2029
Asteroid 2004 MN4 isassigned a rating of 2 on the 10-point Torino Impact Hazard Scale used to predict asteroid or comet impacts. The recently discovered 1,300 feet long asteroid has a 1 in 300 chance of impacting the Earth on April 13th 2029 and is the first asteroid to be rated higher than a 1 on the Torino Scale. |
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Space Station Receives Supplies
The crew of the International Space Station receives badly needed supplies from an unmanned Russian spacecraft. The US Space Shuttle program is still grounded following the breakup of the Shuttle Columbia on entry. |
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Cassini Releases Probe for Titan
The Cassini orbiter releases the Huygens probe which will land on Saturn's moon, Titan on January 14, 2005. |
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EIGroup Achieves 99% SETI
EIGroup computers return their 5,329th data set for the SETI Project, thus finally reaching the 99% contribution level. |
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Scrapping SETI?
Physicist Mark Newman of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor suggests that the SETI project is futile because alien civilizations would encode and compress their communications. Others suggest that some civilizations would transmit a beacon which could be detected. |
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Europe Reaches Moon
SMART-1, the European Space Agency's fuel-efficient compact spacecraft arrives in lunar orbit, marking Europe's first successful mission to the moon. The craft implemented a unique flight path of ever expanding circles around the earth using a cutting-edge ion propulsion system and used only 130 pounds of the 181 pounds of xenon fuel available. Its fuel efficiency is thus 5 million miles per gallon |
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Submerged Structures off Cyprus
Robert Sarmast declares that he has found evidence of man-made structures submerged in the sea between Cyprus and Syria which may be related to the fabled lost city of Atlantis, supposedly destroyed in a Cataclysmic flood in 9,000 BC |
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California Passes Stem Cell Research
Proposition 71, which will deliver $300 million annually over10 years for stem cell study, is approved by California voters with 59% of the vote. |
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Mars Beagle 3 Unveiled
In London, scientists behind the Beagle 2 mission to Mars unveiled a new design for successor Beagle 3. The original Beagle 2 was scheduled to put down in the Martian region of Isidis Planitia on 25 December 2003. But despite many attempts to contact the probe, it was never heard from. |
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Genesis Crash Lands
NASA's Genesis space capsule crashes in the Utah desert when its parachutes fail to open. The payload includes dozens of fragile tiles that had collected particles of the solar wind for about two years. |
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MESSENGER Launched to Mercury
NASA's first mission to the planet Mercury in more than 30 years, the MESSENGER space probe, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning. |
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Cassini-Huygens Enters Saturn Orbit
Cassini-Huygens enters the orbit of Saturn. |
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Space Walk Fixes Station
Lt. Col. Mike Fincke of the U.S. Air Force and Col. Gennadi Padalka of the Russian Air Force spent a gruelling five hours and 40 minutes outside the International Space Station at a worksite above the Destiny science module on the U.S. side. They opened a cover and exchanged a failed circuit breaker with a spare. |
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Private SpaceShipOne Reaches Space
SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded and manned rocket ship, briefly enters space 62 miles above the Earth after launch from the airplane "White Knight." then glides back to earth for an unpowered landing. |
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Branson Drives Across English Channel
Entrepreneur Richard Branson set a new world record on Monday by driving across the English Channel in a James-Bond style amphibious sports car in less than two hours time. |
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Cassini-Huygens Passes Phoebe
The Cassini-Huygens space probe does a fly-by of Saturn's moon Phoebe. |
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Venus Transits the Sun
Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc. Such an event is rare and typically occurs in pairs. The next transit will occur on June 6, 2012 completing the pair. The next pair will begin on December 11, 2117. |
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Lynksys Wi-Fi Router Vulnerability
Cisco Systems issues a patch for a vulnerability in its Lynksys Wi-Fi router that could give hackers access to Linksys consumers' home networks |
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EMC and Samsung Buddy Up
To help EMC contend with increased competition from large companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, EMC announces that Samsung will sell EMC Clarion-class storage systems under its own StorageMax brand name. |
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Cassini Probe Nears Saturn
The internationally sponsored Cassini space probe that carries the European-built Huygens probe nears to within 9.9 million miles of Saturn and officials confirm that all systems are go with the $3 billion mission. |
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NASA Seeks Robots to Save HST
NASA chief Sean O'Keefe announces that the space agency is seeking proposals for robotic missions to save the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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AMD Unveils New Processors
The world's second largest chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices, launches its four new processors based on the Athlon 64 architecture at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. The new models include the 3500+, 3700+, 3800+, and FX-53 |
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Yahoo Toolbar Removes Spyware
Yahoo Inc. unveiled a feature for its Web browser toolbar which facilitates the removal of unwanted "spyware" programs. |
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