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Pensions for space shuttle workers take big bite of NASA budget Florida Today They're the ones who helped give us the Hubble telescope and the International Space Station. NASA needs to honor its commitment to them." NASA has routinely included pension funding as part of its contracting for the shuttle program. ... See all stories on this topic »

Iran plans to send a monkey into space GlobalPost Iran has previously sent a rat, turtle, worms and a monkey doll into space, and is now planning to launch a live monkey into space on its Kavoshgar-5 rocket. Chimpanzees from the Fox movie 'Space Chimps' pose during the opening day of the Licensing ... See all stories on this topic » GlobalPost

Today in Pretty Space Pics: A Glowing Close-Up of a Cosmic Collision's Aftermath Popular Science By Clay Dillow Posted 06.16.2011 at 9:00 am 0 Comments Centaurus A, aka NGC 5128, is only 11 million light years from Earth, and as such it is a popular, brightly-lit target for amateur stargazers. You can even see it fairly well with common binoculars ... See all stories on this topic » Popular Science

Lockheed Martin Space Systems to axe 1200 employees in US Hindustan Times PTI Aerospace and defence contractor Lockheed Martin Corp plans to cut 1200 employees in its space systems equipment division by the year-end. The company said the employment reduction is designed to address affordability and improve its competitive ... See all stories on this topic »

IPCC 'considering sending mirrors to space to tackle climate change' Telegraph.co.uk Reflective aerosols would be sent into space under a series of radical "geo-engineering" measures being considered by the UN climate science body to tackle climate change, leaked documents disclose. The proposals are aimed at reducing the effects of ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

New Research of Black Holes in Space WXYZ ANN ARBOR, MICH (WXYZ) - Thanks to a University of Michigan astronomer and a deep space X-ray photo, we now know more about our universe. The deepest X-ray picture ever taken has given us the first real proof that large black holes existed in the early ... See all stories on this topic »

Troubled Space-Based Infrared Satellite Program Finally Gets Off the Ground National Defense Magazine By Stew Magnuson At one time the two missile defense satellite systems were notorious examples of over budget, technologically challenged military space programs. SBIRS — space-based infrared systems — was conceived in the early 1990s as the ... See all stories on this topic » National Defense Magazine

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