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		<title>US Air and Space museum opens new spaceflight exhibit with Hubble instruments back on Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Zongker</dc:creator>
		
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Big Hubble instruments now Smithsonian artifacts

WASHINGTON — Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Air and Space Museum.
The first phase of a new human spaceflight gallery opens Thursday at the museum on the National Mall. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Splash! NASA&#8217;s moon crash struck lots of water, making moon an enticing place to visit again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Chang</dc:creator>
		
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Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water
LOS ANGELES — The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has become a watershed event for NASA.
Spacecraft that crashed into the moon last month kicked up a relatively small plume. But scientists have confirmed the debris contained water — 25 gallons of it — making lunar exploration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Splash! NASA says spacecraft strikes on moon&#8217;s south pole found significant amount of water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Chang</dc:creator>
		
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Splash! NASA moon strikes found significant water

LOS ANGELES — It turns out there&#8217;s lots of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data from a spacecraft NASA intentionally crashed into the moon last month. &#8220;Indeed, yes, we found water. And we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s moon impact spacecraft discovers at least 25 gallons of water at lunar south pole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Chang</dc:creator>
		
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NASA: Spacecraft discovers water in moon crater

LOS ANGELES — It turns out there&#8217;s plenty of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole, scientists said Friday.
&#8220;Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn&#8217;t find just a little bit, we found a significant amount,&#8221; said Anthony Colaprete, a principal project investigator at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s moon impact mission yields best evidence yet of water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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NASA: Water found in moon crater
LOS ANGELES — It turns out there&#8217;s plenty of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole, scientist said Friday.

&#8220;Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn&#8217;t find just a little bit, we found a significant amount,&#8221; said Anthony Colaprete, a principal project investigator at NASA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck Mars rover Spirit to get roadside assistance from NASA in risky maneuver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Chang</dc:creator>
		
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NASA to try to free stuck Mars rover Spirit

LOS ANGELES — For NASA&#8217;s stuck Mars rover, the Spirit may be willing, but the wheels could prove too weak. The space agency on Thursday outlined a rescue plan to try to free the rover Spirit, which has been bogged in a sand trap on the red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck Mars rover Spirit to get roadside assistance from NASA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Stuck Mars rover to begin moving
LOS ANGELES — The Mars rover Spirit will soon try to drive itself out of a sand trap where it has been stuck for the past six months.

NASA is set to outline plans to try to free Spirit, a risky process that could take months.
Details of the extraction attempt will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vice President Joe Biden praises military and veterans&#8217; service at luncheon in their honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha T. Metzler</dc:creator>
		
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Biden hosts luncheon for military and veterans

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says it is the &#8220;sacred duty&#8221; of the United States to provide for active-duty members of the military as well as care for their families.
Biden spoke Wednesday to a group of 240 active-duty servicemembers and veterans at the Naval Observatory before a Veterans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama honors veterans, places wreath at Arlington National Cemetery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Obama honors veterans at Arlington cemetery
ARLINGTON, Va. — On a cold, rain-soaked Veterans Day, President Barack Obama walked slowly through the white, stone markers at the section of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he oversees as commander in chief.
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		<title>E.T phone Rome: Vatican hosts conference on possible alien life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

VATICAN CITY — E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planetary Society plans new attempt to launch &#8217;solar sail&#8217; spacecraft propelled by sunlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Planetary Society plans new &#8217;solar sail&#8217;
LOS ANGELES — Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a spacecraft that will be propelled by the subtle pressure of sunlight.

LightSail-1 is envisioned as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$1 million winner named in X Prize simulated lunar lander rocketry contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Winner named in lunar lander X Prize contest

LOS ANGELES — A team of California rocketeers has won a $1 million prize in a simulated lunar landing contest backed by NASA.
The X Prize Foundation said Monday that Mojave, Calif.-based Masten Space Systems had a better landing accuracy than was achieved by Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian space chief says prospective nuclear spaceship to fly humans to Mars, other planets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vladimir Isachenkov</dc:creator>
		
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Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars

MOSCOW — Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation&#8217;s space chief said Thursday.
Anatoly Perminov first proposed building the ship at a government meeting Wednesday but didn&#8217;t explain its purpose. President Dmitry Medvedev backed the project and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian space chief backs building a nuclear-powered spaceship to replace Soyuz capsules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vladimir Isachenkov</dc:creator>
		
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Russian space chief proposes a nuclear spaceship

MOSCOW — Russia laid out its ambition to gain an edge in the space race by building a nuclear-powered spaceship.
But the plan outlined to a government meeting Wednesday left key questions unanswered, U.S. engineers were skeptical, and a Russian Greenpeace activist voiced concern.
Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s new rocket makes first test flight for moon program under review by White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Dunn</dc:creator>
		
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NASA&#8217;s new moon rocket makes first test flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA&#8217;s newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight Wednesday, the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could yet be shelved by the White House.
The 327-foot Ares I-X rocket resembled a giant white pencil as it shot into the sky, delayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s new rocket lifts off on 2-minute test flight as White House re-evaluates moon program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Dunn</dc:creator>
		
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA&#8217;s newest rocket blasted off on a brief test flight Wednesday, taking the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could yet be shelved by the White House.
The 327-foot Ares I-X rocket resembled a giant white pencil as it shot into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian space chief proposes designing nuclear-powered spaceship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Russian space chief proposes nuclear spaceship

MOSCOW — Russia&#8217;s space agency is planning to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine, its chief said Wednesday.
Anatoly Perminov told a government meeting Wednesday that the preliminary design could be ready by 2012. He said it will then take nine more years and 17 billion rubles ($600 million, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenn. gov says renewable energy most promising business opportunity from China trade mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Schelzig</dc:creator>
		
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Tenn. gov says China trip has green energy focus

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The renewable energy sector has been among the most promising areas of discussion while on a trade mission to China, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday.
Bredesen said in a conference call from Hong Kong that the trip has been highlighted by visits to Shaanxi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere; suggests landing on asteroid or Martian moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.

Under current plans, NASA has picked the wrong destination with the wrong rocket, the panel&#8217;s chairman said. A test-flight version of the rocket, the new Ares I, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmic population boom: European astronomers find 32 new planets outside solar system</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn&#8217;t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmic population boom: Europeans find more than 2 dozen new planets outside solar system</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop.

Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn&#8217;t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA photos reveal moon strike may have yielded important data</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — NASA&#8217;s much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said.

New images show a mile-high plume of lunar debris from the Cabeus crater shortly after the space agency&#8217;s Centaur rocket struck Oct. 9.
&#8220;We were blown away by the data returned,&#8221; Anthony Colaprete, the mission&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of astronomy, from early telescopes to Galileo writings, on view at Vatican Museums</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY — Rudimentary telescopes, celestial globes and original manuscripts by Galileo are going on view at the Vatican Museums as part of an exhibit marking the 400th anniversary of the astronomer&#8217;s first celestial observations.

&#8220;Astrum 2009: Astronomy and Instruments&#8221; traces the history of astronomy through its tools, from a 3rd century A.D. globe of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apocalypse not? Despite doomsayers, Mayans say 2012 isn&#8217;t the end of the world as we know it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly &#8220;running out&#8221; on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it&#8217;s not the end of the world.

Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. &#8220;I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For next apocalypse, doomsayers turn to Mayan calendar and year 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly &#8220;running out&#8221; on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it&#8217;s not the end of the world.

Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. &#8220;I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonstruck: NASA hits the moon twice looking for water; only fuzzy photos so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Take that, moon!

NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash.
But initial photos show that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonstruck: NASA hits the moon twice looking for water; no live pictures yet, but coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA makes as-yet unseen hit on moon with probes

WASHINGTON — Take that, moon!
NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First of 2 NASA planned moon crashes is a hit; Scientists look for water in kicked up dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — NASA has successfully bulldozed two spacecraft into the moon&#8217;s south pole in a search for hidden ice, but without the promised live photos.

First a 2.2-ton empty rocket hull smacked the moon&#8217;s south pole at 7:31 a.m. EDT Friday. Then four minutes later the camera-and-instrument laden space probe made its death plunge.
The smaller probe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smackdown: NASA probes about to connect with one-two uppercuts of moon&#8217;s south pole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Two NASA spacecraft are barreling toward the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, about to crash Friday into a lunar crater in a search for ice.

&#8220;Everything is working so very well,&#8221; NASA&#8217;s Victoria Friedensen, a manager in NASA&#8217;s exploration office, said minutes before the planned one-two smack into the moon&#8217;s south [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s moon probe separates as planned, ready to smack into lunar surface Friday morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — NASA&#8217;s moon probe has separated into two pieces as planned, a major milestone toward a Friday morning double-barreled crash into the lunar surface.

The smaller probe with five cameras and four other scientific instruments is now trailing behind a 2.2-ton empty rocket hull.
That hull will smack into the moon first Friday morning while the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA lunar mission combines romance of moon with lust for cosmic violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — For as long as man has looked up, the moon has inspired romance, poetry and songs. Man also likes blowing things up. Now we get to do both — in the name of science.

The aim of Friday&#8217;s deliberate crash of two unmanned NASA spacecraft into the moon is to see if they can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama hosts White House party where the stars (and the moon and Jupiter) are the real stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Call it a star party with real star power.

The White House set up 20 telescopes, an inflatable dome with a three-dimensional video tour of the universe, and displays of moon rocks and meteorites as President Barack Obama was hosting a South Lawn star party for about 150 middle schoolers Wednesday evening.
It was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argentine astronomer calculated orbits of Halley&#8217;s Comet and Saturn&#8217;s outermost moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Hand Orellana</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Pedro Elias Zadunaisky, an Argentine astronomer and mathematician whose calculations helped determine the orbit of Saturn&#8217;s outermost moon, Phoebe, as well as Halley&#8217;s Comet, died Wednesday. He was 91.

Zadunaisky was a pioneer in celestial mechanics, applying mathematical models to determine how gravity and other forces alter the orbits of other objects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crash course in geology: Water-seeking probe to smack into moon as world watches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up.

NASA will send a used-up spacecraft slamming into the moon&#8217;s south pole to kick up a massive plume of lunar dirt and then scour it to see if there&#8217;s any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA downgrades threat of 885-foot asteroid striking Earth in 2036</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Earth can breathe a sigh of relief.

NASA on Wednesday downgraded the odds of an 885-foot asteroid striking the planet in 2036.
Scientists initially believed there was a 1-in-45,000 chance that Apophis could hit the planet on April 13, 2036. But the threat was lowered to a 1-in-250,000 chance after researchers recalculated the asteroid&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s Spitzer telescope discovers gigantic never-before-seen ring around Saturn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PASADENA, Calif. — The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday.

The thin array of ice and dust particles lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system and its orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet&#8217;s main ring plane, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATK Space Systems laying off 550 space shuttle engineers, other workers in Utah</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Foy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — The phase-out of the space shuttle program brought 550 layoffs on Tuesday to a Utah company that makes the booster rockets.

ATK Space Systems said it was handing out pink slips to engineers, factory workers and others at three Utah locations.
The company, a business unit of Minneapolis-based Alliant Techsystems Inc., is developing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physicist Stephen Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor at Cambridge, in UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Physicist Stephen Hawking stepped down Wednesday as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University after 30 years in the post.

The roughly 350-year-old position has been held by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage, one of the fathers of modern computing. It is customary for professors to retire from the post the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A breakdown of Iran&#8217;s missile arsenal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A breakdown of Iran&#8217;s missile arsenal:

SAJJIL 1 and 2:
The Sajjil 2 is Iran&#8217;s most advanced two-stage, surface-to-surface missile. It is powered entirely by solid-fuel, which increases the weapon&#8217;s accuracy. The missile has a potential range of 1,560 miles (2,510 kilometers), putting Israel, parts of southeastern Europe and U.S. bases in the Middle East within range.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biden, women&#8217;s groups observe 15th anniversary of Violence Against Women Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Simmons</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Women&#8217;s groups gathered at Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s home Tuesday night to toast the 15th anniversary of landmark legislation aimed at eliminating violence against women.

&#8220;You&#8217;ve helped so many women step out of the darkness. You&#8217;ve helped so many young girls expect a different future, expect different treatment,&#8221; Biden said as he commemorated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spies water ice in craters halfway between north pole and equator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PASADENA, Calif. — A spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted water ice in several impact craters midway between the north pole and equator — the first time ice so close to the surface has been discovered so far south on the red planet.

Instruments on NASA&#8217;s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter estimated that the newfound ice is 99 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon River? Not quite, but three space probes spot surprising sigs of water in lunar soil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The moon isn&#8217;t the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen.

Three different space probes found the chemical signature of water all over the moon&#8217;s surface, surprising the scientists who at first doubted the unexpected measurement until it was confirmed independently and repeatedly.
It&#8217;s not enough moisture to foster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget Pluto, NASA probe finds darkest parts of moon are coldest places in the solar system</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It&#8217;s on our moon, right nearby.

NASA&#8217;s new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon&#8217;s south pole, it&#8217;s colder than far away Pluto. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurs&#8217; rockets vie in simulated lunar landing competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Antczak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call off the attempt until next month.

The flight of Masten Space Systems&#8217; unmanned &#8220;Xombie&#8221; at Mojave Air and Space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd rocket competitor in simulated lunar landing contest calls off mission at halfway point</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — A privately built rocket competing for NASA prize money has been grounded halfway through a simulated lunar landing mission in the Mojave Desert, but developers plan to make another attempt.

Masten Space Systems&#8217; &#8220;Xombie&#8221; rocket made a 93-second flight from a launch pad to a landing pad Wednesday before engine damage was discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cosmic but too hot place to stand: Astronomers find first rocky planet outside solar system</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there&#8217;s a firm place to stand — if only it weren&#8217;t so broiling hot.

As scientists search the skies for life elsewhere, they have found more than 300 planets outside our solar system. But they all have been gas balls or can&#8217;t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressmen say don&#8217;t ditch moon plan; panel says it could still work with extra $3 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — NASA&#8217;s weakened return-to-the-moon program got a lift Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

The head of a special expert panel conceded to Congress that the moon program could work if given enough money. That would mean another $3 billion a year for the program proposed by President George W. Bush.
The plan has been under question because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China starts work on Hainan launch center highlighting satellite, space exploration ambitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country&#8217;s soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit.

The space port on the southern island province of Hainan incorporates a launch site and mission control center for slinging the country&#8217;s massive new rockets into space carrying satellites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global puzzle: Some Apollo moon rocks are lost, perhaps not all by mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Sterling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AMSTERDAM — Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are?

The discovery of a fake moon rock in the Netherlands&#8217; national museum should be a wake-up call for more than 130 countries that received gifts of lunar rubble from both the Apollo 11 flight in 1969 and Apollo 17 three years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA contractor pleased with test firing of moon rocket in northern Utah</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PROMONTORY, Utah — The first test of NASA&#8217;s powerful moon rocket went off without a problem Thursday as more than a million pounds of propellant ignited in a split second, sending a towering plume of sand and dust high into the Utah sky.

For more than two minutes, flames roared out the end of the 154-foot [...]]]></description>
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