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Chemistry World September 16, 2009 Hayley Birch	Peering into Titan's haze A new study has thrown light on the processes that form organic molecules called polyynes in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Popular Mechanics September 14, 2009 Rand Simberg	Launch System Skepticism Grows at Space 2009: Guest Analysis This week, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics annual meeting on space in Pasadena, Calif., several technical papers have more to say on the subject of getting back to the moon with existing launch systems.
AskMen.com	China Building Space Port China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit.
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Why NASA Should Bomb the Moon to Find Water: Analysis NASA today announced the site of a mission that aims to send an empty fuel tank into a lunar crater to assess the amount of frozen water that is kicked up by the impact.
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Andrew Moseman	How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust.
Popular Mechanics September 10, 2009 Rand Simberg	Risk Aversion and NASA Don't Mix: Augustine Report Analysis We now know the options that the Augustine panel is going to present to the administration for the future of NASA human spaceflight, because the summary was released on Tuesday.
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.
Popular Mechanics September 2009 Alex Hutchinson	RoboBath: NASA Studies The Cleanest Robot in the World In the icy north, scientists learn to sanitize their tools before sending out rovers to search for life on other planets.
Popular Mechanics September 2009	Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage.
Chemistry World August 21, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Aluminium helps date solar system New evidence has been found that supports the use of the radioactive aluminium isotope as a way of precisely dating objects formed during the first few million years of the solar system.
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