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		<title>Countless Trillions Of  Orbs Illuminate The Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Countless Trillions Of  Orbs Illuminate The Universe. Have you ever wondered how many stars there are in space? This question has fascinated not only astronomers but also other scientists as well as philosophers, musicians and dreamers throughout the ages. They have also fascinated all of us, ordinary people all over the world who occasionally look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UFO Found? / Lego Space Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Lego Man In Space A video posted on YouTube Wednesday appeared to show the amazing voyage of a Lego man sent into space on a homemade spacecraft by two Toronto students. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Games:Little Space Heroes / Space Race Blast Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little Space Heroes Game. Bubble Gum Interactive, an independent developer of children&#8217;s games, today announced the launch of Little Space Heroes, a brand new virtual universe for kids and families worldwide. In this free-to-play story-driven online game, kids create their own hero, strap on their jetpacks, fire up their starjets and blast off on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Glenn Mystery Solved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mystery Surrounds The First American In Orbit. All was right for John Glenn and his Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7. The two rocketed into orbit as one, and after crossing Africa, Glenn became the first American to witness a sunset from space. “This moment of twilight is simply beautiful,” he reported from high above the Indian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Filled Asteroid / Rocks From Mars Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ice Filled Asteroid  The giant asteroid Vesta may contain a vast supply of water ice, a supply that has sat frozen for billions of years, a new study reveals. The surface of Vesta — the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — appears to be quite dry. But water ice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Did All The Space Debris Come From?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Where Did All That Space Debris Come From? While the animated film “Wall-E” intimated that space junk could doom our planet, this is the first movie to explore the exponentially expanding ring of debris that threatens the safety of Earth orbit. Early in the Space Age, little thought was given to objects left in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contaminating Mars Possibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could NASA&#8217;s Mars &#8216;Curiosity&#8217; Probe  Contaminate the Planet? Michael Crichton would have loved this: Bacteria common to spacecraft may be able to survive the harsh environs of Mars long enough to inadvertently contaminate the Red Planet with terrestrial life, &#8220;If long-term microbial survival is possible on Mars, then past and future explorations of Mars may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If The Apollo Program Never Happened?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What If The Apollo Program Never Happened? In a recent debate Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that he would like to beat the Chinese back to the moon. He has even been so bold as to propose setting up a manned base by 2020, driven by empowering private industry to take the initiative. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon&#8217;s Far Side Video / Obama&#8217;s Mars Mission</title>
		<link>http://www.davidreneke.com/moons-far-side-video-obamas-mars-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidreneke.com/moons-far-side-video-obamas-mars-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ GRAIL Probe Returns First Video of Moon&#8217;s Far Side. Cue in the Pink Floyd- A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see. The new video was captured by one of NASA&#8217;s twin Grail probes using a novel camera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon Should Be USA&#8217;s 51st State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gingrich: &#8220;Moon Should Be 51st State&#8221; At the sunset of Newt Gingrich&#8217;s putative presidency, the moon would be the 51st state, colonised by permanent American settlers. Tourists would honeymoon in low-Earth orbit, space factories would manufacture goods in microgravity, and America would have a rocket powerful enough to send us to Mars. This is all [...]]]></description>
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