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When Did Science Become the Enemy?
SPACE.com   Friday, 16 February 2007
SPACE.com - The fact that you're confronting this column on a web site devoted to space science and astronomy makes you roughly as rare as technetium. Despite the fact that astronomy is one of the two most popular science subjects in American schools (the other is biology), it's really not that popular.
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Space shuttle moves to launch pad for March liftoff
Reuters   Friday, 16 February 2007

The space shuttle Atlantis leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building for launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida February 15, 2007. (Rick Fowler/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis was rolled out to its seaside launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a planned liftoff in March on the first of five missions NASA hopes to fly this year.


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NASA's Themis mission aims to unveil aurora borealis secrets
AFP   Thursday, 15 February 2007

Swedes watch a display of aurora borealis, northern lights in Ostby in 2006. NASA is set to launch a spacecraft carrying five satellites on a mission to unveil the secrets of the origin of the aurora borealis.(AFP/File/Sven Nackstrand)AFP - NASA is set to launch a spacecraft carrying five satellites on a mission to unveil the secrets of the origin of the aurora borealis.


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NASA Historian Sees Cyborgs in Our Future
SPACE.com   Thursday, 15 February 2007
SPACE.com - Albuquerque, N.M. - Fifty years after the dawn of the space age, hundreds of people have flown into space. A dozen of those left their boot marks on the Moon's surface, and several nations now are planning to send astronauts back to the Moon and then beyond. So you would think the expansion of humanity ever deeper into the Cosmos is a sure bet.
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NASA Denied Raise as Spending Measure Heads to White House
SPACE.com   Thursday, 15 February 2007
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate gave final passage to a stripped-down spending measure Feb. 14 that denies NASA and many other federal agencies a budget increase for 2007.
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U.S. to build military base in Australia
Reuters   Thursday, 15 February 2007

Three U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers in the Pacific Ocean, June 18, 2006. The United States is to build a new military satellite communications base in Australia, the government said on Thursday, after three years of secret negotiations between the two allies. (Todd P. Cichonowicz/U.S. Navy photo/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - The United States is to build a new military satellite communications base in Australia, the government said on Thursday, after three years of secret negotiations between the two allies.


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Mars Rovers Get Four Upgrades
SPACE.com   Wednesday, 14 February 2007
SPACE.com - NASA has made its Mars rovers even smarter with computer upgrades beamed through space that give the robots greater power to act on their own on the red planet.
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U.S. blasts China test, sees "no arms race in space"
Reuters   Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Reuters - The United States said on Tuesday that China's recent anti-satellite missile test had endangered hundreds of satellites and left debris in orbit for a century, but reiterated its opposition to a new global treaty on space.
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Scientists to focus on climate change, energy at US session
AFP   Wednesday, 14 February 2007

American Association for the Advancement of Science logo. Climate change, renewable energy and space exploration will be high on the agenda when scientists from around the world gather for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week.(AAAS)AFP - Climate change, renewable energy and space exploration will be high on the agenda when scientists from around the world gather for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week.


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U.S. fights China, Russia on space arms
AP   Wednesday, 14 February 2007
AP - The United States clashed with China and Russia during a disarmament debate Tuesday over how to prevent an arms race in outer space, and Washington criticized Beijing for its recent test of an anti-satellite missile. Russia and China, in turn, condemned the "one state" that refuses to consider a treaty banning space weapons — a reference to the U.S.
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Uncharted Territory: New Glimpse of the Sun's South Pole
SPACE.com   Tuesday, 13 February 2007
SPACE.com - A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above the south pole of the Sun last week, giving scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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