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Popular Mechanics April 2, 2009	Star Party: 100 Hours of Astronomy At a Telescope Near You Starting April 2, there will be 100 hours of telescope-centered events around the world. Here is a list of U.S. events, by State, for April 2 - 5, 2009.
Popular Mechanics March 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Making the Space Station a Home Deliveries of home hardware and solar panels are making the ISS a home for more astronauts. Here is a look at the ISS as home, sweet home.
Wired March 23, 2009 Bob Parks	Stir Welder Builds Rockets With Friction, Not Blowtorches Arc welders are great for general purpose use, but if you're building an Ares I rocket -- the craft that will shuttle astronauts to the moon and beyond starting in 2020 -- you'll need a stir welder.
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars.
Scientific American March 2009 John Rennie	In Our Expanding Universe, Earth Is Nothing Special We're an ordinary species on an ordinary planet. Or are we?
Popular Mechanics April 2009 Michael Belfiore	7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space.
Popular Mechanics March 11, 2009 Tom Jones	An Astronaut's Letter to President Obama: Six Space Policy Musts Looming decisions facing the president will make or break America's status as the world leader in space. Here is some advice for Obama on what he needs to do to keep NASA on the right trajectory.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Teledyne Sensor Maps Moon's Surface on India's Spacecraft During the next two years, the M3 is designed to image the entire lunar surface with impressive spatial and spectral resolution.
Popular Mechanics March 6, 2009 Mark Wolverton	Can KEPLER Help Us Find Earth's Twin? With the latest universe-gazing technology, KEPLER (along with Hubble and the most advanced ground-based telescopes) will give extrasolar planet hunters a boost in the search for Earth-like planets.
Popular Mechanics March 5, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	How to Land Robots on the Moon (and Keep them Alive) Getting them there is easier said than done. And once there, conditions on the moon's surface are likely to play havoc with machinery and sensors.
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