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Hypersonic research craft set to fly Monday.

One challenge facing the upcoming flight is that the heat on the X-43 will be much greater than on the previous flight. Hot spots on the previous X-43 flight reached 2,600 degrees. Temperatures are expected to reach as high as 3,600 degrees during this flight.

Additional thermal protection is being put on the vertical tail and on the leading edges of the aircraft. The thermal protection is a coating similar to what is used on the space shuttles.

The future of hypersonic research by NASA is being examined. One possibility is to research what is needed to use the technology for the first stage of a two-stage space launch system, said Vincent Rausch, manager of the Hyper-X program.

While NASA considers its course in hypersonic research, the Air Force is pressing ahead with efforts to develop such technologies for use in future aircraft that could reach any spot in the world within a couple of hours.

The Stated Air Force's ultimate goal is to develop a plane capable of flying at least 3,500 mph and carrying 12,000 pounds of cruise missiles or small-diameter bombs. I for one would hope that the Air force drops that Idea and that we use the technology gained for peaceful purposes.

I think you were right about the other thread missing The Jupiter's Daytime Disappearance or occultation.

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1385_1.asp

Other links for A Late - Night Jupiter Occultation, do not fret if you missed it. A more dramatic repeat is at hand, this time in the deepest dark of night. On the morning of December 7th, the thick waning crescent Moon will rise in the east.
Great chart of time for viewing as indicated by Universal Time.

News release Nasa Space agency invited public participation into NASA's Capability Roadmap Public Workshop in Washington November 30.

Other document spelling out more details.
http://fellowships.hq.nasa.gov/apio/Att … _01_V5.pdf

Yup posted in space tourism shuttle c Hotel thread.

Here is a resource I think all will like.
Cassini: Voyage to Saturn and Titan

The Keck Telescope in Hawaii has provided insight into some of the most enigmatic weather in the solar system.
New Images Reveal Clouds on Planet Uranus

Well with all the talk about the Boeing and Northrop venture for CEV, I happen on a release for the guidance system for the probe. Seems like they do a good job for what they are charging for the work done.
Northrop Grumman Guidance System Keeps MESSENGER On Course to Mercury

Keep going Messenger, We are all waiting for our first glimpse of the planet Mercury.

This article speaks for itself on space danger to others.
Brazil spaceport threat to villages

Bush is having a little changing of the guard from his inner circle of cabinet members while, two other Cabinet officers, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and Interior Secretary Gale Norton, have said they would like to remain on the job, as has Michael Leavitt, who as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has the equivalent of Cabinet status.

Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans resigned Tuesday

What other changes can we expect before the beginning of the new year when he is officially sworn in for another term of office.

The worst part about the red or blue state argument is that it can even carry over into the family household and as cindy noted it can be a very obstinet view of the candidates one of feelings rather than of actual facts.
My other half is pro democrat 100% and can see no good from any republican office even thou I can point out that my current job is of a direct result of a republican office. But on the flip side of that same coin she could argue that it was also because of a republican president that I had lost my last.
So I find it easier in some ways not to argue the feeling but to argue the facts instead. Which sometimes are very hard to decern from the media news reports.

Bill thanks, any chance that it will be web broadcast?

The classic chicken or egg which came first.

If you believe that the big bang was that of a black hole exploding then that is the starting point but the question where did that black hole come? That would mean that one did not exist at some point in time.

If matter starts out evenly spread across all that we know as space. Then the question becomes one of what made it clump together to form all the heavenly bodies we now know?