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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John McHale	Phoenix Mars mission uses Actel RTAX-S FPGAs The Phoenix spacecraft includes a Meteorological Station which is used to acquire, process and transmit temperature and pressure data to scientists and researchers back on Earth.
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 James Oberg	Space Station: Internal NASA Reports Explain Origins of June Computer Crisis A mistake like that on the way to Mars would be fatal.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Saswato R. Das	Remembering Sputnik: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Although he is more revered for his role as an author, Clarke has well deserved the title of futurist for his groundbreaking thinking on space exploration. Here's an interview.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Murphy & Das	Remembering Sputnik 50 Years Later Three veterans of the early days of spaceflight reflect on the impact a tiny satellite had on the course of history.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kieron Murphy	Remembering Sputnik: Frederick C. Durant III Frederick Durant was a key advisor to the U.S. military, intelligence, and civilian space-flight programs of the 1950s and '60s. Here he discuses aerospace's early days.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kieron Murphy	Remembering Sputnik: Ernst Stuhlinger At the end of World War II, Stuhlinger joined the other members of von Braun's group of 126 scientists and engineers in the United States to work on civilian uses for advanced rockets. Here, he reminisces on Sputnik.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007	Secrets of Sputnik Fifty years ago this month, the Soviet Union launched the world's first device into orbit. Here are the facts long kept hidden. Place... Liftoff... etc.
Geotimes October 2007	Saturn's G Ring Understood After studying images taken by Cassini over the last two years, researchers may have identified the source of Saturn's G ring.
Geotimes October 2007	Galaxies Collide Four galaxies are slamming into each other to form a single massive galaxy 10 times larger than the Milky Way.
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