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		<title>I Know Where Guenter Wendt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may recall a certain scene in the movie Apollo 13 in which Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) notes the disappearance of one of the launch pad workers who’d only moments before been visible through the capsule window. He quips, “I vonder vere Guenter vent” in a distinctive German accent, making a clever play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falcon 9 and Dragon: Preparing for the International Space Station</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several months, SpaceX has been hard at work preparing for our next flight – a mission designed to demonstrate that a privately-developed space transportation system can deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA has given us a Nov. 30, 2011 launch date, which should be followed nine days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=3339</link>
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		<title>The Week At SpaceX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, we successfully completed a wet dress rehearsal (WDR) for the Falcon 9 Flight 3 launch vehicle at Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The WDR is a significant test during which we load propellant into the vehicle and perform all operations just as we would on launch day right down to T-1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=3344</link>
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		<title>Manned Mission To An Asteroid: Eureka Moment Or Dead End?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the shuttle program behind us and International Space Station construction now complete, we begin a new era in space exploration. The long-sought foothold in space that Station provides has finally been established, and it serves as our jump off point from low Earth orbit to all points beyond. More than that, it stands as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2937</link>
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		<title>A New Dawn Arising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As far back through antiquity as Aristotle it was theorized that the physical world in which we live is made up of atoms. And though the ancients&#8217; mastery of deductive reasoning led them to great leaps of enlightenment, it was not enough to accurately describe reality. &#8220;Close, but no cigar,&#8221; as they say. Complete atomic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2945</link>
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		<title>The Price of Duplication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA&#8217;s proposed next big effort is to build a rocket to replace the space shuttle. And the price tag? Thirty-eight billion dollars or about 10 times what private industry, as exemplified by SpaceX, will charge for the same job. Is this really the best use of taxpayer dollars? Proponents argue that a government-owned rocket is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=3080</link>
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		<title>Growing Pains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August alone will see a thousand jobs lost as a result of the shuttle&#8217;s demise; a scary development to be sure. But it&#8217;s hardly the first time the manned space program has faced this kind of hardship and transition. You may recall a certain scene in the movie Apollo 13 in which Jim Lovell (played by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2947</link>
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		<title>First Space Flight Sweepstakes Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Organizers of the 50th anniversary of Seattle&#8217;s Space Needle want to celebrate by sending you into space, and they&#8217;ve teamed up with Virginia-based Space Adventures and with Armadillo Aerospace to offer the winner of their Space Race 2012 sweepstakes a suborbital flight. If realized, the trip is sure to be the ride of a lifetime. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2905</link>
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		<title>American Industrial Might Still Second To None</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I attended an Ansari X Prize competition flight press conference in 2004, Burt Rutan who had designed and built the SpaceShipOne craft (which now hangs in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC) presented a sign that an onlooker had made. Everyone chuckled at the clever quip, &#8220;SpaceShipOne, government zero.&#8221; For the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2859</link>
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		<title>Shuttle Replacement A Duplication of Effort and Years from Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA is now estimating that the shuttle replacement will enter flight testing in late 2017. Once the testing program has concluded some 5 years beyond that, we are told to expect the first missions carrying people to begin in 2025 with a flight to an asteroid. And even when manned missions do commence, only a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2821</link>
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		<title>Former Senator Schmitt Reflects On America&#8217;s Space Program: Past, Present and Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 42nd Anniversary of the humankind&#8217;s first lunar landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 2011, followed by the return of STS-135 on the next day, concluding the final flight of a United States Space Shuttle, places a capstone on the remarkable accomplishments of the post-Apollo generations of space engineers, builders and operators. Those of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2814</link>
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		<title>Former Senator Schmitt Proposes Dismantling of NASA and Creation of a New, Deep Space Exploration Agency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced to a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American to the Moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of that decade. President Kennedy’s confidence that this Cold War goal could be accomplished rested on the post-Sputnik [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2804</link>
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		<title>Space Adventures Planning Lunar Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 5 2011 Today, Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, outlined a forecast for commercial orbital spaceflight and announced details of how additional living space will be made available during the company&#8217;s planned circumlunar mission. &#8220;As we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Dennis Tito&#8217;s pioneering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2799</link>
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		<title>Why the US Can Beat China:  The Facts About SpaceX Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Elon Musk Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been done before, there will always be skeptics. So when I started SpaceX, it was not surprising when people said we wouldn’t succeed.  But now that we’ve successfully proven Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon, there’s been a steady stream of misinformation and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2791</link>
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		<title>Commercial Spaceflight Federation Applauds Winners of Round Two of NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, D.C., Monday, April 18, 2011 – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation congratulates NASA’s announcement today to award a total of $269 million through NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Round Two (“CCDev2”) Program.  The winners include CSF members Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and SpaceX.  The Commercial Spaceflight Federation would also like to congratulate the Boeing team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=2786</link>
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