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Regarding the recent letter to the editor claiming that the foam on the external tank of the space shuttle suffered from an "environmentally friendly" change made during the Clinton administration: Here's a ...

Virginia News Digest By the Associated Press Published August 12, 2005 ALEXANDRIA, Va.

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The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon.2.9

NASA's new Mars exploration work-horse, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, took off Friday morning on a seven-month, 310-million-mile journey to the Red Planet.5

Here is the latest on stories making news this hour: The chilling sounds of the desperate people trapped in the devastation and police officers trapped in the confusion of the destruction of the World Trade ...2

NASA engineers are developing an unmanned "flying eyeball" that will be used as an assistant to astronauts for the space shuttle and International Space Station.2.9

Researchers at Utah State's Space Dynamics Lab are getting to ready to pick up some of their plant experiments that have been on the space station since 2002.2.9

Even if the problems plaguing NASA's space shuttle mission hadn't been so prominent in the news of late, Ken Jones' "Darkside" would be no less gripping.2.7

NASA says its space shuttles may not fly again until November at the earliest because the agency needs to find out why foam is falling off the fleet.2.7

The successful flight of Space Shuttle Discovery has rekindled the dream of commercial ventures into outer space.

Aug 12, 2005) This image of Saturn taken by Cassini looks it was drawn by an impressionist painter ... The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.2.9

Fugitive Couple Refuses Return to Tenn. Poll: Many Fear Financial Hit of Gas Prices Officials Release 9/11 Oral Histories Sunnis Reject Proposal for Federal Iraq TiVo Tests Internet Download Service Jolie Is ...3.2

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced today that Brian Chase will serve as the agency's new assistant administrator for Legislative Affairs.2.7

An official at the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum says attendance is increasing at the center since NASA planned a return to the cosmos.4

How does a flower know when to, well, flower? For one thing, it isn't just April showers that do the trick.2.9

NASA has launched a space probe destined for Mars. Lift off was delayed at Cape Canaveral in Florida yesterday following a problem with sensors.2.7

When the shuttle Discovery arrived safely in California on Tuesday morning, Linda Relis of Port St.2.7

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Yet another Marvel comic-to-film adaptation, Fantastic Four, will hit theatres today.2.7

Chinese astronauts onboard the Shenzhou-7 spaceship, which is preliminarily scheduled to blast off in 2007 will hopefully perform first space walk, revealed the national space hero Yang Liwei at the Exhibition ...3.1

He said it was heavy because it was packed with electronic gear needed to provide broadband ... The company is counting on its Space Systems subsidiary to help it get back on its feet.3.5

Poet Robert Frost once pondered whether the world would end in fire or in ice. Weather researchers say where you find ice you find fire at least in the form of lightning.2.7

On Aug. 3, one of the Discovery astronauts attached something resembling a suitcase to the international space station.1.3

Canada is proud of its home-grown agriculture experiment called Tomatosphere, which sent up a batch of tomato seeds on a space shuttle.2.7

RETURN TO DISCOVERY: * Bios: Meet the crew of Discovery. . * What the crew thinks: Astronauts have their say.2.9

A commercial space company is making plans for a $100 million tourist trip around the moon.2.7

News), a leading provider of commercial space services, announced today that John B ... Satrom and his family will be leaving Titusville, Florida to return to Washington, D.2.7

Three figure-eight knots tied into strings may be the first word from the ancient Inca in centuries.2.7

I get mail from folks all over the country. Most of them have had the Maine, York County experience and feel so connected to this area and its people, that they subscribe to the York County Coast Star.

High signal sky flats will be obtained by observing the bright Earth with the HRC and WFC.2.7

Concerns over twisted ankles and plague-carrying fleas have Flagstaff Unified School District considering artificial turf for a playground at Cromer Elementary School.3.1

Joe "Reb" Edwards said there was nothing more exciting than traveling 25 times the speed of sound.1.3

I am here with the Tin Can Sailors' National Reunion and my hotel room window overlooks the 660-foot tall Gateway Arch.2

The White House told the Associated Press today that Bush will be in Idaho, but his official schedule has not yet been released.3.2

By MELISSA MARTIN for the Mail Tribune MOUNT ASHLAND , When Jupiter rose above the treetops on Mount Ashland, Mike Quilty pointed his 10-inch scope heavenward and invited his young guests to look at the steady, ...1.3