The U.S. ambassador urged Japan on Wednesday to extend its naval mission in the Indian Ocean, saying it would be "a real tragedy" if Tokyo dropped out of the battle against terrorism.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Monday morning as he began a three-day visit to expand economic ties between the two countries.
The United States and Britain Thursday urged Japan to renew a mission to refuel coalition ships in the Indian Ocean as fierce opposition in parliament dimmed prospects of securing an extension before the deployment expires next month.
Japan's ruling party approved Wednesday a new anti-terrorism bill that would extend a refueling mission in the Indian Ocean but curtail Tokyo's support for combat operations in Afghanistan by U.S.-led forces.
NASA took aim at the heart of the asteroid belt Thursday, launching a spacecraft on a nearly decade-long journey that will include two never-before-attempted close encounters.
The ARES plane soars over the Martian surface (Illustration: NASA)
U.S. soldiers paced around their new outpost in Sadr City, checking their watches, drinking coffee and waiting for their Iraqi partners.
An astronaut removes the High Resolution Spectrograph to make way for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph during the second servicing mission in 1997. The telescope can hold four telephone-booth sized instruments and four piano-sized instruments (Image: NASA)
Atlantis's pilot, Christopher J Ferguson, floats on the flight deck on Sunday, the first day in space for the STS-115 crew (Image: NASA)
Israel has decided air power alone will not be enough to drive Hezbollah back from the Israeli-Lebanon border and a ground force will be needed to establish a buffer zone that is at least 20 miles deep, senior military officials said Thursday.
An Indian unmanned mission to the moon will carry two NASA scientific devices designed to find minerals and ice on the lunar surface, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
NASA plans to crash a space probe into the moon in 2009 — a collision so violent it will be visible on Earth through a telescope, the space agency said Monday.
NASA on Monday resurrected an ambitious mission to explore two of the solar system's largest asteroids, just weeks after budget woes killed the project.
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Scientists on Friday lamented the cancellation of a NASA mission to orbit two asteroids, saying the project would have shed light on how the solar system formed.
Joey Cheek has his first assignment from Johann Olav Koss: Zambia. The American speedskater will head to the African country in April on a humanitarian mission for Koss' Right To Play group, which uses sports to promote a healthier lifestyle for children in poor countries.