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	<description>The Space Industrial Revolution Begins Now</description>
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		<title>There’s More to the Question Than Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the arguments used in the future of the human space flight industry, there are a few common threads that keep reappearing.  Underneath the issues of NASA’s capabilities, jobs, or the competence of private industry, technology occupies a central role in the debate.  Should we continue Ares and Constellation?  Have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offer New ISS Real Estate As Hub For Orbiting Space Commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kirk Shireman, NASA&#8217;s deputy International Space Station program manager, said this week that a left over piece of hardware not originally planned for flight could easily be made flight worthy. Called the Node Structural Test Article, it could add five new berthing ports for the station. The possibility of all that new real estate raises [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2440</link>
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		<title>Former Senator Schmitt Cites Strong Constitutional Justification for Selected Federally Funded Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Founders understood the importance of science and technology in the long-term future of the United States. Without science and engineering advancement, in the face of advancement by others, America could not compete with our ideological and economic challengers.  Imagine our world if, before America, Nazi Germany had atomic weapons or the former Soviet Union had nuclear submarines or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2428</link>
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		<title>Vast Reserves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the greatest secrets hiding in plain sight is the discovery of fusion power. It is that fabled process by which man creates a nuclear-like reaction that can be harnessed for electrical power generation, but without the dangerous and expensive issues surrounding nuclear waste. Though research in this field is not without its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2394</link>
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		<title>Caterpillar Inc. Joins Sponsors of Astrobotic Expedition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m posting this press release from Monday, because it really is big news. I&#8217;ve been wondering how long it would take companies manufacturing earth moving equipment to realize the enormous potential of lunar mining. Well, the wait is over. Caterpillar has stepped up in a bold and visionary move to aid in the first commercial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2403</link>
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		<title>Opportunities of a Close Call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Space Station has recently been making headlines with the problems of a failed cooling pump. On July 31, 2010 a power surge occurred, causing a pump to fail in one of the two cooling systems onboard the International Space Station. This immediately caused an alarm as the cooling systems are vital to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2370</link>
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		<title>Citizen Science Projects A New Trend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new trend has begun to emerged around what is being termed &#8220;citizen science&#8221; projects in which the general public is invited to participate in serious and ongoing scientific studies within various areas of astronomy. We reported last month (see Lunar Scientists Need You, July 25, 2010 STN) on one such project called Zooniverse. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2294</link>
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		<title>One More Giant Leap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA announced late last week that they are seeking to buy data from commercial providers that, &#8220;reduces risks for future human and robotic lander designs by employing these missions as unique demonstration testbeds,&#8221; according to their Broad Agency Announcement. Through their Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program, the agency will award $30.1M to private companies already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2224</link>
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		<title>Results In for Constellation Poll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The results of the SpaceTalkNOW poll regarding Project Constellation are in. To the question &#8220;Should NASA&#8217;s Project Constellation to return humans to deep space be cancelled?&#8221; 84.9 percent of respondents said &#8220;no.&#8221; By a wide margin the people believe that we should return to the moon and deep space. So it would seem that on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2216</link>
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		<title>Space Trivia Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the trivia buffs out there, I present a challenge. I will give away a SpaceTalkNOW t-shirt to the first 10 people who can correctly answer my trivia question.
Which is brighter?
a) a full moon, or
b) two half moons
I&#8217;ll also include a mug for those who can go the next step and explain why.
Send your entry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2200</link>
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		<title>A Simple, Elegant Solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the problem of space junk growing at an exponential rate (see Earth Now Has A Ring, July 27, 2010), the search for a solution is becoming ever more urgent. For the past several years ideas ranging from slowing defunct satellites to re-entry speed using low-power laser light to destroying them with space weapons to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2172</link>
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		<title>Life Out There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of a brouhaha was raised last week when Dimitar Sasselov, an astronomer at Harvard University, presented Kepler space telescope data at the TEDGlobal conference in the United Kingdom. He stated that the data shows around 140 worlds to be &#8220;like Earth.&#8221; Many in the media and the general public took him to mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2111</link>
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		<title>Earth Now Has a Ring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re Sci-Fi fan, you&#8217;ve undoubtedly seen more than one movie depicting a habitable planet bearing a striking resemblance to Saturn; the main character looking up to see a large, color set of ring spanning from horizon to horizon. And if you were tempted to scoff at the prospect as being no more than an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2093</link>
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		<title>Lunar Scientists Need You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever daydreamed of exploring space? Ever found yourself wandering off on an imaginary expedition of discovery across some vast, alien landscape? Of course, the regular guy and gal could never hope to make such a journey in person. That&#8217;s really only Hollywood stuff. Right? Wrong. In fact, you now have the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=1933</link>
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		<title>Space Commerce</title>
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For nearly half a century now we&#8217;ve heard from the futurists what our lives will be like just around the corner. The picture they paint is one with human settlements circling the earth and sprawling across the surface of the moon; of space hotels spinning like pinwheels through black skies; of rocket flights as common [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=1941</link>
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