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InternetNews July 5, 2005 Roy Mark	NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked.
Geotimes July 2005 Lisa Pinsker	Deep Impact Strikes Back The scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) cheered yesterday as they received confirmation that the Deep Impact probe successfully hit its target, comet Tempel 1, after six months' and hundreds of millions of miles' worth of journey.
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert	Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries.
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Lake? Cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently recorded a surface feature on Titan, Saturn's largest moon that looks remarkably lake-like.
Geotimes July 2005 McFadden & Schultz	Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed.
Geotimes July 2005 Naomi Lubick	Mars' Lost Landers Researchers working with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor announced that they may have found something they've been looking for: the sites where two Mars landers settled, several decades apart.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Making a Public Impact What the public observes or, better yet, captures on film both during the Deep Impact comet collision and in the weeks before and after, could prove useful to the team of NASA scientists trying to understand the comet and the effects of the impact.
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Catherine Yang	Vint Cerf: Next Stop, Mars Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf is working on expanding the set of Web addresses and also on interplanetary communication.
National Defense July 2005 Edward Swallow	Revised Acquisition Policy Will Help Space Programs The Defense Department during the past four months has begun implementing a new acquisition policy for space systems, which will bring about sweeping changes in how programs are awarded and managed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	NASA Project Uses Data Recorder From BiTMICRO Penn State designers used the E-Disk flash drive on their Cosmic Rays Energetics And Mass (CREAM) project, a high-altitude balloon experiment that investigated the composition of ultra high-energy cosmic rays with NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) vehicle technology.
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