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Popular Mechanics August 21, 2009 Andrew Moseman	NASA's Greatest Mission? Stardust Finds Amino Acids, Keeps on Giving to Science In Stardust's tennis racket shaped aerogel collectors, Michael Zolensky of NASA's Johnson Space Center and his colleagues found lots of surprises.
InternetNews August 20, 2009	A Peek at NASA's Faster Connection to the Moon One giant leap for the U.S. space agency: 100Mbps connectivity from the Earth.
Chemistry World August 5, 2009 James Urquhart	Martian methane breaks the rules Variations in methane concentration across Mars defy our current understanding of methane photochemistry, say French scientists.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John McHale	Human Space Flight Gets Increase in 2010 NASA Budget Request NASA human space exploration programs, such as the Constellation program to return to the moon, receive increases in the 2010 NASA budget request, while space shuttle funding dwindles as NASA officials plan to retire the fleet in 2010.
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 July 2009 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash.
Chemistry World July 22, 2009 James Urquhart	Signs of water on Enceladus The idea that liquid water exists below the surface of one of Saturn's moons has been given a boost thanks to researchers in the US and China who have detected ammonia, various organic compounds, and possibly argon.
AskMen.com	Solar Eclipse Darkens Asia Millions of Asians turned their eyes skyward Wednesday to the longest total solar eclipse this century will see. Millions of others shuttered themselves indoors.
Wired July 20, 2009 Noah Shachtman	Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames Scientists in the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HARP) have successful created an artificial aurora borealis in the sky.
Wired July 20, 2009 John Brandon	Torture Chamber: NASA Tests Next-Gen Craft for Space Blast For the past two decades, rocket scientists have been trucking prototypes to NASA's Space Power Facility for test flights. But to accommodate the agency's latest vehicle, Orion, the facility is going to require some remodeling.
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