Posted 8:23 PM 4/5/2013 by Connie Murphy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday.
The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four (More)
Posted 7:27 PM 4/4/2013 by Connie Murphy
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Officials say some bighorn sheep at Zion National Park are showing symptoms of a disease similar to chicken pox.
Park officials say sore mouth disease could be transmitted to people if they come in contact with an infected sheep, but there have been no reported human (More)
Posted 9:56 PM 4/3/2013 by Connie Murphy
GUYMON, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say an airplane missing on a flight from Oklahoma to Colorado has been found crashed in the Oklahoma Panhandle near Guymon with at least two people killed.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the single-engine aircraft that (More)