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    <description>The latest taggings for nasa</description>
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      <title>Gold Medals for NASA....or maybe not</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Marlow - Much has been made of the record-producing swimsuits that Speedo has developed over the last few years: they represent "technological doping" to detractors (aka "Speedo's embarrassed competitors":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7558622.stm) and the next logical step in sports technology to supporters. The one thing]]>
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      <title>Arm-Swinging and other Vitally Important Matters</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Marlow - You know how once you become aware of something, you can’t get it out of your head? You learn a new word and it suddenly pops up everywhere, or a song someone mentions is playing all over the place. Well]]>
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      <title>UK space science policy - for better or for worse?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Ben Cottam - *Is Britain falling behind its European and Global competitors with a lacklustre space science policy?* NASA’s budget for 2008 is $20.2 billion, amounting to around 0.16% of US GDP. The current annual budget for the UK civil space programmes is]]>
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      <title>Re-Branding the Moon</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Marlow - The Moon suffers from a PR problem. Mars is the media darling of the family, with rovers crawling around its surface and screenwriters fantasizing about its potential to harbor life. The Moon is considered boring: lifeless, dusty, monochromatic, and soooo]]>
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      <title>Your daily dose of Phoenix</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Marlow - Wow, it's been a while! Just got back from a glorious trip through Portugal and Spain, which included narrowly avoiding a street brawl in Portugal (and I thought the English were mad about their footie!), cruising through the gorgeous waters]]>
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      <title>Phoenix rising?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Nick Wigginton - !http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/Gallery/20030508_earth/earth_200.jpg! It will cost about $460 million for the new "NASA Phoenix lander":http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ to land on Mars and search for evidence of life in the Martian soil (scheduled to land this Sunday). I'd prefer to defer most discussion of otherworldly]]>
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      <title>Nasa ponders manned asteroid mission</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Asteroid 2000SG344 is just 40 metres across, but could become the "second extra-Terran object explored by humans":http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/07/starsgalaxiesandplanets.spaceexploration. Nasa plans a return to the moon somewhere in the 2020 timeframe, with trips to Mars following around a decade later. But a]]>
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      <title>British Astronauts?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Marlow - Over the past several months, the United Kingdom has been engaged in a fascinating debate over the costs and benefits of manned space travel. (Check out thought-provoking articles both "for":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6993010.stm and "against":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7349610.stm the notion.) Ever since the 1980s, the UK]]>
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      <title>The Long Road to Mars</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Marlow - First off, hello! Welcome to the second incarnation of my blogging adventures - a look into space exploration and the search for life beyond Earth. If you're at all interested, previous entries can be found "here":http://www.explorerscompass.com. Needless to say, I'd]]>
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      <title>Nasa's new lunar rover in action</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Check out "this video":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjfAvFBI_s from New Scientist. It shows a working model of a next-generation lunar rover called the Chariot; a 12-wheeled manned vehicle with optional plough that could be heading to the moon sometime around 2020. More "here":http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4221055&page=1.]]>
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