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Popular Mechanics February 2009	NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
Popular Mechanics January 12, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already.
Popular Mechanics January 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	NASA Renegades Pitch Obama Team New Post-Shuttle Plan During a morning meeting at NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. with Obama administration transition team members, a handful of advocates today pitched an idea to scrap NASA's existing post-shuttle plan.
Popular Mechanics February 2009 Roxana Tiron	As Satellite Program Fails, New Plans Arise to Take its Place The Pentagon needs quick ways to get small satellites into space to fill a shortfall in battlefield communication.
Popular Mechanics December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman	NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond.
Popular Mechanics December 19, 2008 Davin Coburn	Can You Put a Price on Space History? For NASA's Space Shuttle, It's About $42 Million Once the space shuttle fleet retires the shuttles will be ready for purchase. But even for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, the shuttles come at a hefty price -- about $42 million each.
Science News	Book Review: The Lightness Of Being: Mass, Ether, And The Unification Of Forces By Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek explores the essence of the matter that makes up the universe - combining the enthusiasm of someone like Jeff Corwin with the thoughtfulness of a David Attenborough.
Chemistry World December 19, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Carbonates Confirmed on Mars New snapshots of Mars appear to show large outcrops of carbonate-bearing rocks, indicating that regions of the Red Planet could once have been an ideal environment for life to thrive.
Popular Mechanics December 18, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Findings on Saturn's Moon Titan: You Say Ice-Spewing Volcano, I Say Squiggly Lines Rosalyn Lopes of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the case at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco that icy volcanoes exist on Titan.
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