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February 02, 2010
Obama cuts moon travel, links NASA to private firms
Washington (AFP) Feb 1, 2010
President Barack Obama Monday ditched US plans to return to the moon and hitched NASA's future to private industry in a budget calling for the space agency to stay close to Earth and do research. In budget proposals for NASA, Obama proposed increasing funding for the space agency to six billion dollars over five years. But he proposed dropping the massively over-budget program to develop a new-generation rocket called Constellation, put in place by former president George Bush and ... read more

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Moon Exploration is Not Dead
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3D Measurements Of Apollo 14 Landing Site
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Shuttle Endeavour To Bring Tranquility To ISS
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UK's First China Space Race Exhibition Launched
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Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

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Obama to propose abandoning US return to Moon: report
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Studying Titan's Lakes On Earth
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India To Launch Chandrayaan-2 By 2013
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Seed Bank For The Moon
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Route 66: Cassini's Next Look At Titan
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ISRO Has Received 'Several' Payload Proposals For Chandrayaan-II
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 28, 2010
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would finalise in a couple of months the payloads from the international community to be carried on Chandrayaan-II moon mission, the space agency's chairman K Radhakrishnan has said. "Yes, we have and in a couple of months we would finalise it. There are several of them (proposals received from different countries)," he told reporters here. The Ch ... more

NASA Adds Israeli Technical Expertise To Lunar Science Research
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2010
NASA and the Israel Space Agency have signed a joint statement that recognizes the Israel Network for Lunar Science and Exploration, or INLSE, as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "NASA looks forward to working with this distinguished Israeli organization to benefit from our shared expertise and advance ... more

PVAMU Scientists Add "Moon Mud" To Lunar Radiation Shielding Studies
Prairie View TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2010
Barely two months after NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into the moon's southern polar region and discovered water, faculty and student researchers from the NASA Center for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration (CRESSE) at Prairie View A and M University are already investigating how moisture content might alter the radiati ... more

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The Floor Of Tycho Crater


ESA And NASA Celebrate The Fifth Anniversary Of Titan Landing


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US shifts military focus to militants, hi-tech weapons

Boeing B-52 With CONECT Completes First Test Flight

RAF Tornados Showcased

US accelerating missile defenses in Gulf: report

Russia denies fleet boost over US Poland missile plan

Kuwait Air Defense Forces Conduct Patriot Test Firings

S.Korea watching for possible N.Korea missile tests

US probes missile test failure in Pacific: Pentagon

US deployment raises tensions in strategic Gulf: analysts

Libya's Russian deal boosts arms race

Gates fires general, withholds funds over F-35 problems

Obama budget tries to ease strain on stretched US military

India's military sets up robot competition

Animal rights group wants 'Robohog Day'

S.Korean scientists develop walking robot maid

Safety risk associated with HIV drug

Disease spreads in quake-hit Haiti

Global swine flu death toll rises to 14,711: WHO

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Change-2 Satellite's Camera Resolution Reaches One Meter
Beijing, China (XNA) Jan 14, 2010
The "Lunar Probe Project" won a special award at the National Science and Technology Awards held during the China National Science and Technology Meeting January 11. Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's Lunar Probe Project disclosed during an interview that the resolution of the cameras mounted on the Chang'e-2 Satellite which has been scheduled to be launched this year reached 7 meters, and even 1 meter when the satellite is closer to the moon. Chang'e-2 will be launched at t ... read more

NASA Awards Contract For Space Suit Simulator

Lawmakers gird for NASA cut battle

US senator condemns 'death march' for manned space flight

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A Stationary Spirit

Spirit Bogged In Sand: Now A Stationary Research Platform

Close Encounter With Mars

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NASA's Rosetta "Alice" Spectrometer Reveals Earth's UV Fingerprint

Make A Play Date With Planet Explorers At The Adler

VLT Captures First Direct Spectrum Of An Exoplanet

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Science seeks to control the Casimir force

Nanotech Experiment To Weather The Trials Of Orbit

Better Control Of Carbon Nanotube Growth Promising For Future Electronics

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