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<title>Extending shuttle life to cost $3B yearly, NASA says</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 02:04 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year&#39;s planned retirement is $3  ...  the international space station. After the 2003 Columbia tragedy, President Bush declared that the U.S.  ...
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<title>NASA chief says keeping space shuttle costs US$3 billion yearly</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207215285</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 01:07 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year&#39;s planned retirement is $3  ...  the International Space Station. After the 2003 Columbia tragedy, President George W. Bush declared that  ...
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<title>We Have a Long Way to Go - Presentation by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin to the Space Transportation Association 8 January 2009</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207211511</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 00:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  had the pleasure of speaking to the Space Transportation Association each January for the past  ...  the president in the aftermath of the Columbia accident, and modified, extended, and enhanced by  ...  and international commitments by using the Space Shuttle to finish the International Space Station (ISS),  ...
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<title>Keeping shuttle costs $3 billion yearly</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207184569</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 21:50 GMT</pubDate>
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... NASA: Keeping shuttle costs $3 billion yearly WASHINGTON - The  ...  cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year&#39;s planned retirement is  ...  will be a deadly accident, like 2003&#39;s Columbia tragedy. &quot;We would have a one-in-eight chance  ...
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<title>NASA: Keeping Shuttle Costs $3 Billion Annually</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207165283</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year&#39;s planned retirement is $3  ...  will be a deadly accident, like 2003&#39;s Columbia tragedy. &quot;We would have a one-in-eight chance  ...
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<title>NASA chief says keeping space shuttles flying would cost $3 billion a year, extend risk</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207165106</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year&#39;s planned retirement is $3  ...  will be a deadly accident, like 2003&#39;s Columbia tragedy. &quot;We would have a one-in-eight chance  ...
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<title>U.S. space agency chief warns of risks from extension</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207163457</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year&#39;s planned retirement is $3  ...  will be a deadly accident, like 2003&#39;s Columbia tragedy. &quot;We would have a one-in-eight chance  ...
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<title>NASA: Keeping shuttle costs $3 billion yearly</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207140064</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 17:46 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year&#39;s planned retirement is $3  ...  will be a deadly accident, like 2003&#39;s Columbia tragedy. &quot;We would have a one-in-eight chance  ...
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<title>China making leaps in space</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207062529</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 09:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  will be pursuing its ambitious plans for space in all sorts of ways. But in  ...  study additional details about the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster now that NASA has released its  ...
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<title>Our views: NASA, post-Griffin</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207046344</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 07:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  returning the shuttles to flight following the Columbia disaster, overseeing the transition to the programs  ...  will set the course of Americas manned space exploration effort for a generation or more  ...  Telescope and the historic first joint U.S.-Russian shuttle mission. Sally Ride, who became the first  ...
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<title>Shuttle lands safely in Florida</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207024104</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 05:22 GMT</pubDate>
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... KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) -- The space shuttle Endeavour came home a day early on  ...  edge of that shuttle&#39;s left wing. When Columbia re-entered the atmosphere to land 16 days  ...
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<title>NASA takes swift action after report of astronaut drinking</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207024093</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 05:22 GMT</pubDate>
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...  &quot;One of those incidents involved both the shuttle and the T-38 NASA jet aircraft the  ...  crew members to and from the international space station. &quot;There were still two incidents but  ...  with six other astronauts in the 2003 Columbia disaster. NASA&#39;s next scheduled space shuttle mission  ...
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<title>I-Reporters&#39; dreams launched along with Sputnik 50 years ago</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207024092</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 05:22 GMT</pubDate>
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...  soon be in and ahead of the space race. During the 50 years since Sputnik,  ...  the space station going while the sophisticated shuttle was grounded? There&#39;s something in keeping some  ...  onward. Richard DiBenedetto of Heriot Bay, British Columbia I was 10 years old in 1957  ...
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<title>NASA faults equipment in Columbia shuttle disaster</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207024082</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 05:22 GMT</pubDate>
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...  under difficult and personal circumstances,&quot; said Johnson Space Center director Michael L. Coats. &quot;Their work  ...  improved safety of future human spaceflights worldwide.&quot; Columbia broke apart some 200,000 feet over Texas  ...  with their families in private, said former shuttle commander Pam Melroy, deputy project manager for  ...
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<title>NASA should keep Griffin</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207012098</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 02:56 GMT</pubDate>
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... NASA&#39;s new report detailing exactly how the space shuttle Columbia astronauts died in that 2003 tragedy may be the final word in that story,  ...
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