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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Morgan Advanced Ceramics Supplies Ceramic Components to NASA Morgan Advanced Ceramics Inc. will provide hexagonal ceramic insulators for intensifiers in NASA's OWL Earth-orbiting system to study air showers initiated by ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECR).
Popular Mechanics November 15, 2007 Thomas D. Jones	High-Wire DIY Can Save the Space Station: Resident Astronaut The space station is giving us a graduate-level course in how people and machines can survive in space for the long term.
Popular Mechanics January 2008 Erik Sofge	Space-Based Solar Power Beams Become Next Energy Frontier The idea of using satellites to beam solar power down from space is nothing new, but cost has limited it from coming to fruition.
Popular Mechanics November 6, 2007 Erik Sofge	How I Survived a Zero-G Robot Operating Room: Extreme Surgeon Human and robot surgeons compete to see who can perform better in zero gravity.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	Chinese Satellite Arrives at Moon Radio tracking and control of the lunar mission is made possible through through politics and technology.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das	Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.
Popular Mechanics December 2007 Erik Sofge	Tethers Offer Cheap, Efficient Earth-Space Transit (If They Work) The race to deliver a space payload back to earth without rockets has suffered yet another setback as a tethered capsule experiment performed by the European and Russian space agencies failed this past September.
Wired October 23, 2007 Vince Beiser	Hotel Biz Zillionaire's Next Venture? Inflatable Space Pods. The super-rich owner of the Budget Suites hotel chain, Robert T. Bigelow, has plans to build his own space station.
Wired October 23, 2007 Vince Beiser	Rockets R Us: Salvaging Out-of-This-World Space Junk Since 1962 Where can you go for those pricey liquid oxygen valves and titanium fuel tanks? Norton Sales, the place with the bomb canisters and missile components in the window.
Reactive Reports October 2007 David Bradley	The Venusian Greenhouse A rare form of carbon dioxide in which one oxygen atom contains ten neutrons instead of the usual eight could be to blame for the searing greenhouse effect on the planet Venus.
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