Space Shuttle Columbia - Information Note No. 1
Paris, 03 Feb 2003 At about 14:00 GMT (15:00 Central European Time), Saturday 1 February 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost and seven NASA astronauts perished. They were Rick Husband, Mission...
Search
-
-
Busquin praises Columbia crew's commitment to scientific progress
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has paid tribute to the seven astronauts killed in the Columbia space shuttle accident and emphasised how much scientific progress owes...
-
Columbia: Prodi and Busquin statements
Brussels, 2 February 2003 After the dramatic accident of the space shuttle Columbia, Philippe Busquin, Commissioner responsible for Research, offered his sympathy to the families of the astronauts...
-
Commission applies new technology in fight against urban air pollution
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has launched a joint pilot study to measure urban air pollution in Milan in January and February 2003. The initiative, in...
-
FP6 proposal pre-registration - future applicants are encouraged to provide basic information on CORDIS
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is providing future applicants to the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) with a new o-line form to...
-
Advanced manufacturing technologies workshop, Canada
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 A workshop on advanced manufacturing technologies for the automotive industry is taking place on 13 and 14 May in London, Canada. In today's knowledge-based economy, innovation...
-
Update 13:50
Transmanche University accord signed Education secretary Charles Clarke signed an accord for a cross-channel university project to link academics in southern England and northern France today at a...
-
Today's news
Feepayers' bankruptcy loophole to be closed A loophole in the bankruptcy laws is to be closed to prevent students avoiding the payment of university top-up fees, ministers said yesterday. Charles...
-
Life sciences group member praises Busquin's accessibility and willingness to listen
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 The European Group on Life Sciences (EGLS) is seeing changes since it began advising the Commission, Professor Derek Burke, a member of the group has told CORDIS News. The '...
-
2003: a challenging year to build Jules Verne
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 Today, about 90 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) spaceship that is to fly towards the International Space Station (ISS) in...
-
Artemis finally reaches operational orbit
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 Artemis has finally reached geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above the Earth, at 21.5°E. This announcement would, if all had gone to plan, been made just a few days after lift-...
-
Poul Nielson: Towards sustainable agriculture for developing countries: options from life sciences and biotechnologies, Stakeholders' Conference, Brussels
Brussels, 31 January 2003 The challenge we are now facing is to make sure that present and future discoveries will be accessible to those who need them most, particularly the poor. It is our...
-
The growing gap between the promise and the reality of biotechnology
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 Professor Louise Fresco, an expert panellist at a conference on sustainable agriculture for developing countries in Brussels, exposed the growing gap between the promise and the...
-
ESA backing SATMODE, interactivity via satellite for consumers
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 The European Space Agency (ESA) has joined forces with a team led by SES Astra (Lux) on a SATMODE development contract totalling EUR 49 million. SATMODE is a satellite return link...
-
Results of the Consultation on the Need for a Community Legal Framework on "Human Tissue Engineered Products"
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 Full text Tissue engineering is a new and rapidly developing technology that intends to produce viable substitutes that restore, maintain or improve the function of human...