Space & Astronomy

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IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Night Life as Seen From Space Scientists plan satellite to snap pictures of cities at night.
Popular Mechanics September 4, 2007 Jill Tarter	Where Will the Next 50 Years in Space Take Us? Expert Opinions Leading thinkers from Buzz Aldrin (a robot fan) to Arthur C. Clarke (he wants a sub-orbital joyride) share their thoughts on where space will take us in the half-century ahead.
Geotimes September 2007	Geomedia On the Web: Stellarium... Galaxy Zoo...
Popular Mechanics September 2007 David Noland	The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing.
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.
Popular Mechanics October 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Scientists Use Gecko's Spider-Man Grip to Develop Super Tape A team at Ohio's University of Akron has produced a new kind of "gecko tape" that mimics the thousands of hairs on the gecko's footpad. And a Stanford group envisions that tape being used in space.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Saswato R. Das	Killer Electrons From Outer Space Accurate space-weather forecasts could come from knowing the cause of super-fast electrons in the Van Allen belts.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Jean Kumagai	Swimming to Europa A robot designed to explore Mexican sinkholes is pointing the way to Jupiter's watery moon.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007	Exploring the Extreme Just how much water the moon holds is still debatable but Bill Stone, an engineer and renowned cave explorer, along with a group of scientists and technologists, are convinced that a vast icy lunar waterworks resides beneath the moon's south pole.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 James Oberg	Lost in Space ISScapades: The Crippling of America's Space Program by Donald A. Beattie is a tough slog. Would-be space managers should have to read and digest this book to prove that they, like the astronauts, have the "right stuff."
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