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NASA Unveils Design Recommendations For Next Generation Spacecraft

NASA budget increases focus on moon trips

Space.com: Efforts to build new moon-bound spacecraft would receive big spending increases under NASA’s 2007 budget request; other programs would be downplayed. • FULL STORY

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• Cosmic Log: Microscopic Mars

• X-ray halo hints at galaxy-building process

• Spacesuit still alive, giving weak signal

• Artist brings distant worlds to life

• Scientists digging into Stardust samples

• Air Force finds way to fold telescopes

• Scientists map ice on comet’s surface

• Scientists specify size of ‘10th planet’

• Asteroids near Jupiter are really comets

SCIENCE EDITOR ALAN BOYLE

• Cosmic Log: Microscopic Mars
Rovers document forces that shaped Red Planet

NBC Space Analyst James Oberg

• Spacesuit will turn into a satellite

• 7 myths about the Challenger disaster

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Closeup view shows a cometary impact into aerogel from NASA Stardust mission

• Month in space
The return of NASA’s Stardust probe and more celestial views from January 2006.

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