Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Documents Released to Casey Anthony's Defense

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors released more than 2,000 pages of investigative documents and pictures to the defense team of a Florida mother charged with killing her daughter.

Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. The remains of the 2-year-old were found in December in woods less than a mile from her family home.

The state gave her defense team 29 compact discs, which included aerial photos of where the girl's remains were found and pictures from a picture-sharing Web site, according to paperwork filed this week.

Friday, June 12, 2009

1000 New Pages of Discovery Released in Casey Anthony Murder Case

ORLANDO, Fla. — Investigators released 1,000 new pages of discovery in the Casey Anthony murder case Friday, including documents about her employment history and court papers from a civil case brought by a woman with the same name as a baby sitter Anthony accused of kidnapping her daughter.

Copies of depositions taken by lawyers for Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez — who sued Anthony for defamation for saying she abducted 2-year-old Caylee — as well as interviews with Anthony's parents and brother are among the documents made public Friday.

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Also released are employment history papers from Universal Studios, where Anthony claims to have worked as an event planner, and a transcript of an interview with a woman who says she has photos of the area where Caylee's body was found six months after she vanished last June.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty to her daughter's murder. Her trial is scheduled to open in October. Prosecutors say they intend to seek the death penalty.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

New NASA Mission

Let's cross our fingers and hope this mission is successful.

(CNN) -- The space shuttle Discovery is on pace for a Sunday launch after NASA engineers repaired a leaky gas venting system, officials said Saturday. The leak had canceled a planned launch on Wednesday.

NASA hopes the seven-member crew can take off around 7:40 p.m. Sunday on a mission to the international space station, where they will deliver supplies needed to expand the station's crew to six people.
"The vehicle is looking real good ... ," lead shuttle flight director Mike Moses said. "Basically, I think I can sum this up by just saying we're good to go tomorrow and we're looking forward to getting the count going."
A leak in a hydrogen gas vent line forced Wednesday's delay. Repairs went smoothly, Moses said.

The line funnels flammable hydrogen away from the launch pad during takeoff.
The shuttle crew will be delivering the final parts needed for an expanded solar energy power system that will allow the station to double its crew to six people. The crew also will be dropping off Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who will replace NASA's Sandy Magnus on the space station.
The shuttle also will carry a replacement for a failed unit in a system that converts urine to drinkable water, NASA said.
Kathy Winters, the mission's chief weather officer, said Sunday appears to offer only a 20 percent chance of weather that would scrub the launch.
The crew, led by commander Lee Archambault, is expected to board Discovery at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Officials said the crew has been training and resting for the mission since Wednesday.
Earlier this week, Magnus, station commander Michael Fincke and Russian engineer Yury Lonchakov had to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft -- a lifeboat of sorts -when a piece of debris from an earlier mission hurtled uncomfortably close to the station.

The debris, moving about 20,000 mph, came within three miles of the station but caused no damage.
Wednesday's launch postponement was the latest in a series of delays for Discovery as it tries to make the 28th shuttle mission to the space station.
The launch had been delayed previously to allow time to check a "flow-control valve in the shuttle's main engines," NASA said last week. That resulted from damage being found in a valve on the shuttle Endeavour during its November 2008 flight. Three valves were cleared and installed on Discovery, it said.