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NASA Announces Revised Plan For Mir Staffing
July 31, 1997 — Astronaut Wendy Lawrence (Cmdr, USN) has been replaced by her backup, Dr. David Wolf, for the next long duration stay on the Russian Mir space station. The change will enable Wolf to act as a backup ... > full story -
Second U.S. Space Station Component Begins Launch Preparations
July 28, 1997 — The first of two pressurized mating adapters for the International Space Station arrived today at the Kennedy Space Center, FL, from manufacturer McDonnell Douglas in Huntington Beach, ... > full story -
Advanced Composition Explorer Set To Study Matter From Sun, Milky Way And Beyond
July 28, 1997 — The Earth is constantly being bombarded by a stream of accelerated particles arriving not only from the Sun, but also from interstellar and galactic sources. The study of these energetic particles ... > full story -
NASA Technology May Help Assess Risk Of Bone Problems
July 22, 1997 — A portable device developed for the space program to examine how physical activity relates to bone density may someday serve as a way to assess a person's risk of ... > full story -
NASA Statement On The Passing Of Gene Shoemaker
July 22, 1997 — Planetary scientist Dr. Eugene ("Gene") Shoemaker, 69, was killed in a two-car accident near Alice Springs, Australia, on the afternoon of July 18. His wife Carolyn Shoemaker suffered ... > full story -
New Studies Of Martian Meteorite Launched
July 18, 1997 — The National Science Foundation has awarded grants for seven new projects to study Martian meteorite ALH84001 in greater depth. The grants are part of a coordinated program with NASA to further ... > full story -
Radio Telescopes In The New Movie "Contact" Dish Up Real Science
July 15, 1997 — In the new movie "Contact," astronomer Ellie Arroway, played by actress Jodie Foster, searches for signs of extraterrestrial life using massive, Earth-bound radio telescopes. Much of ... > full story -
Cornell Researcher Helps Interpret Images Taken By Mars Pathfinder Camera
July 3, 1997 — When Pathfinder lands on Mars on Independence Day, the images it sends back to Earth will be interpreted with the help of a Cornell University scientist. "We're looking for anything out of ... > full story -
Asteroid Mathilde Reveals Her Dark Past
July 2, 1997 — More than 100 years after her discovery, asteroid 253 Mathilde has been sharing her secrets with scientists in the Science Data Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in ... > full story -
Hubble's Look At Mars Shows Canyon Dust Storm, Cloudy Conditions For Pathfinder Landing
July 2, 1997 — Hubble Space Telescope pictures of Mars, taken on June 27 in preparation for the July 4 landing of the Pathfinder spacecraft, show a dust storm churning through the deep canyons of Valles Marineris, ... > full story -
NASA's Earth Science Program Adjusts To Loss Of Data From Japanese ADEOS Satellite
July 2, 1997 — "The failure of Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS or Midori) spacecraft with the two NASA instruments aboard it is a real blow to NASA's science program," said Mike ... > full story -
Novel CU-Boulder Plant Chamber Set For July 1 Reflight On Space Shuttle
June 29, 1997 — A University of Colorado at Boulder-built plant-growth chamber that carried pharmaceutical and agricultural experiments aboard an abbreviated NASA space shuttle mission in April will be reflown on a ... > full story
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