11.  A young hacker was sentenced to four months in prison Wednesday for breaking into computers at a NASA lab that oversees unmanned space missions.

12.  An unmanned space ferry loaded with supplies for the Mir orbiting station took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Thursday, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

13.  Autosub One, which has been developed in Britain, is the marine equivalent of an unmanned space probe.

14.  ILC also makes gas masks for the Army, air bags for landings of unmanned space vehicles, airship fabrics, and containment bags used in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

15.  Only in a few exceptional cases had unmanned space vehicles been allowed to leave Russian territory, he noted.