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Popular Mechanics May 26, 2009 Joe P. Hasler	Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface?
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Tim Beyers	To the Moon, Google! Google puts up a $30 million cash prize to whoever can explore 500 meters of the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video back to Earth before December 31, 2012.
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Ian Christe	The Next Threat to Astronauts: Moon Dust NASA's plans for colonizing the moon by 2024 have hit a problem. Dust particles discovered by the Apollo crew can make their way into moonwalkers' lungs.
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Jennifer Demski	STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science.
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol	The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system.
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo	Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science
National Defense December 2010 Cynthia D. Miller	JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades.
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Jennifer Bogo	X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Bush retools space program As the Mars rover Spirit prepares to drive off its platform tonight and into the martian terrain, President Bush prepared the United States to send humans to the red planet and beyond.
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland	Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.
T.H.E. Journal December 18, 2009 David Nagel	NASA Funds Target 13 K-12 STEM Education Programs Thirteen K-12 STEM education initiatives will receive an infusion of more than $12 million through NASA's Nspires program. The programs to be funded incorporate a range of technologies, from online social networking to virtual learning to digital media.
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Thomas D. Jones	The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea	Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good.
Popular Mechanics March 5, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	How to Land Robots on the Moon (and Keep them Alive) Getting them there is easier said than done. And once there, conditions on the moon's surface are likely to play havoc with machinery and sensors.
Chemistry World August 2009 Richard Corfield	One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland	Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back -- and Stay This Time From ensuring a safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here's an inside look at some of the toughest challenges NASA's engineers are now confronting with the new Orion shuttle.
IEEE Spectrum July 2008	Slideshow: Next Stop, The Moon At a field test in Washington state, NASA's lunar robots go for a spin.
Popular Mechanics December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman	NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond.
Popular Mechanics February 27, 2008 Brian Lisi	NASA's Concept Truck Built for 360-Degree Lunar Off-Roading NASA engineers went back to the drawing board to create a new "concept car" for the moon. The result? A six-wheeled, truck-style vehicle that someday might rove around the lunar surface more like a crab than a car.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile.
Geotimes December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space...
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Paul Eisenstein	Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well.
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven member crew lifted off, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. The launch follows a 13-day delay after a faulty fuel sensor halted the first launch attempt during countdown.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	A Team Competing For Google's Lunar XPrize May Reach Moon By 2017 SpaceIL, a small Israeli nonprofit foundation working in the country's almost non-existent space sector, announced that it plans to conduct the world's first private mission to the moon in 2017.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA's New Moon Mission NASA's current plan for manned space exploration is getting dissension from planetary scientists and astronauts.
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.
Popular Mechanics October 12, 2009 Erik Sofge	8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration.
AskMen.com February 1, 2006	F1 Racing - Behind the Scenes There is a lot criticism directed towards F1-Racing nowadays. People feel that the sport is boring and predictable. Many critics argue that the cars decide the race and not the drivers' skills.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Michael Milstein	NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.
Popular Mechanics January 12, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already.
AskMen.com	Space Suit Design In his book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press), architecture professor Nicholas de Monchaux uncovers the layers of the story of the space suit, with particular focus on the eventual winner, the 21-layer A7L suit, created by the International Latex Corporation.
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford	Roving for Martian Designs Fifth-grade students from Texas take first place at the Third Annual Mars Rover Competition. Their rover was designed to furnish Mars with plants for oxygen and food for future human settlement.
Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Moon Tapes Still Missing As NASA officials continue to search for missing Apollo 11 moon landing tapes, the search has turned up some interesting leads, including some lunar data found on the other side of the globe.
Wired December 2004 Andrew Chaikin	Man vs. Machine Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it.
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg	Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.
InternetNews December 19, 2006 David Needle	Google Reaches Far Out For Users Google announced it signed a Space Act agreement with NASA Ames Research Center.
Popular Mechanics February 2009	NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan.
Geotimes March 2004	NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history.
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Caitlin Werner	The Answer Is in the Stars In the search for a way to remedy our problems in math and science education, we should look to NASA for help.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Geotimes June 2003	NASA cautiously raises "Spirit" to Mars And they're off! Well, one of them is anyway. As far as getting the new Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) up through the atmosphere and out past the thermosphere is concerned, NASA has hit its half-way mark.
Science News September 11, 2004	Exploring Mars At its Marsoweb site, NASA provides detailed maps, engineering data, and interactive tools for studying the Red Planet's alien terrain.
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Rhea	President Bush's Space Vision: Is This Trip Necessary? NASA has finally unveiled details about its proposed $104 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2018, but critics detect a demonstrably uncertain sound of this trumpet.
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Michael Milstein	Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets.
Popular Mechanics February 8, 2010 Rand Simberg	The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Colin C. Haley	IT's Final Frontier Private IT firms -- especially networking, security and chipmakers -- must play a critical role in NASA's moon and Mars missions, experts say. What's more, NASA has to let them.
Wired August 2005 Tom McNichol	The Big Gulp NASA wastes millions hauling water into orbit. But now there's a better way - recycle astronaut urine.
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert	Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles.