Friday, July 22, 2011

Google Alert - space

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Foreign nations push into space as US pulls back
Los Angeles Times
Countries including China, India and Iran are engaged in a new race to explore space. Efforts include building research centers, rockets, satellites and lunar rovers. A visitor to a Beijing exhibition stands near the Shenzhou 5 re-entry capsule used in ...
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Los Angeles Times
Moon Express sees money in moon rocks
CNET (blog)
by Rafe Needleman What's a search engine geek doing in the space business? Barney Pell, CTO and co-founder of Powerset, a search technology company that was acquired by Microsoft, has for the last year been working on building a robotic spacecraft to ...
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Space tourism's next phase
Montreal Gazette
By MAX HARROLD, The Gazette July 22, 2011 12:00 AM Space shuttle Atlantis is towed to its hangar after landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday. The mission to the International Space Station was the final flight for the ...
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James Webb Space Telescope may stay grounded, aborting jobs
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
by Lindsey robbins, Staff Writer For the past 16 years, John Mather of Hyattsville has worked on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. His efforts might go into a black hole if Congress quashes additional funding for the program. ...
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Applause, but no tears in Mission Control at shuttle's end
Foster's Daily Democrat
As the last space shuttle landed Thursday morning, the two dozen men and one woman in Mission Control stayed focused. Behind and above them in the VIP room, their families applauded when Atlantis touched down, but not the controllers themselves. ...
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Johnson Space Center Reflects On Shuttle Program
NPR
by Wade Goodwyn The end of the shuttle program is being felt exceptionally hard at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Thousands of people there worked on the shuttle and related projects — and the center is a major economic force in the city and the ...
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