Reuters - A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said on Monday.

SPACE.com - The triumphant Sunday landing of a Japanese space capsule that visited an asteroid and returned to Earth despite near-overwhelming  malfunctions now has scientists around the world asking one final question: Did it actually capture a piece of asteroid Itokawa?

Satellite view of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 12, 2010, from the Aqua satellite. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team.

56 days into the the still-leaking Deepwater Horizon oil well spill in the Gulf of Mexico, satellite views are becoming a daily viewing habit. This latest image, taken on June 12, 2010 shows the oil particularly visible across the northern Gulf of Mexico when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image at 1:55 p.m. CDT. Oil appears to have reached beaches and barrier islands in Alabama and the western Panhandle of Florida. The problem for wildlife, and particularly birds, is that from above, the water does not look different. And when they dive in for prey, the get soaked with oil. Estimates are that between 12,000 and 19,000 barrels a day are gushing from the damaged well. On June 3rd, BP lowered a containment cap onto a cut pipe to catch some of the flow. This cap, says the company, is now collecting more than 10,000 barrels of oil a day, ferrying it up to a tanker on the surface. But no one can be absolutely sure of the estimates.

As the oil is coming ashore along the gulf coast, everyone wonders how far the oil will travel. Researchers National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have completed a detailed computer modeling study that indicates the oil might soon extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer. The video of their results, captured in a series of dramatic animations, below, has caused quite a stir.
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Family portrait of the first 15 CoRoT planets. Credit: Patrice Amoyel (CNES)

The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) spacecraft has been busy, and using this exoplanet-finding-machine astronomers recently found six new extrasolar planets, which contain an odd assortment of new worlds. They include shrunken-Saturns to bloated hot Jupiters, as well a rare brown dwarf with 60 times the mass of Jupiter. "Each of these planets is interesting in its own right, but what is really fascinating is how diverse they are," said co-investigator Dr Suzanne Aigrain from Oxford University’s Department of Physics. "Planets are intrinsically complex objects, and we have much to learn about them yet."
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AFP - Scientists in Australia's vast Outback on Monday recovered a capsule that they hope contains the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth -- perhaps offering a glimpse into ancient space history.

Moon rocks from the Apollo 11 mission. Credit: NASA

A new look at Moon rocks from the Apollo missions, along with a lunar meteorite show a much higher water content in the Moon's interior than previously thought. Using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) which can detect elements in the parts per million range, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory found the minimum water content ranged from 64 parts per billion to 5 parts per million—at least two orders of magnitude greater than previous results. The science team says their research suggests that the water was preserved from the hot magma that was present when the Moon began to form some 4.5 billion years ago. "The concentrations are very low and, accordingly, they have been until recently nearly impossible to detect," said team member Bradley Jolliff of Washington University in St. Louis. "We can now finally begin to consider the implications—and the origin—of water in the interior of the Moon."
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Hayabusa's sample return cannister and parachute on the ground in the Australian outback. Credit: JAXA

Scientists from Japan were given the go-ahead to retrieve the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa spacecraft, which is hoped to contain the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth, perhaps providing insight into the origins of asteroids – and our universe. The capsule was ejected three hours before reaching Earth, and the sample canister descended through Earth's atmosphere, preceding the spacecraft which broke up in spectacular fashion (click here to see the video) over the Australian Outback. The capsule lay in the Woomera Prohibited Area until morning when Aboriginal elders deemed it had not landed in any indigenous sacred sites, giving the OK for the scientists to retrieve it.
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David Waters fills in for Miles O'Brien this week: Japan's robotic roundtrip mission to visit an asteroid beats the odds and returns home, South Korea's new rocket has a bad day and Mars rover Spirit produces another discovery.

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AFP - A Japanese space capsule that has travelled around the solar system as part of the first mission to land on an asteroid and return to Earth has been collected by scientists, an official said Monday.

SPACE.com - Dark matter and dark energy are two of the most mind-boggling ingredients in the universe. Ever since these concepts were first proposed, some astronomers have worked feverishly to figure out what each thing is, while other astronomers have tried to prove they don't exist, in hopes of restoring the universe to the more understandable place many would like it to be.

AFP - A Japanese space probe which scientists hope contains material from the surface of an asteroid returned to Earth on Sunday, Japan's space agency JAXA said, landing in the remote Australian outback.

Japan's little spacecraft that could returned to Earth, putting on quite a show over the Australian outback, making a fiery reentry. Hayabusa returned around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) in the Woomera Prohibited Area of South Australia. In the video you'll see a little speck of light ahead of the falling debris: that’s the sample return canister with, hopefully, some precious goods aboard – samples from asteroid Itokawa. The canister separated about three hours before reaching Earth, and returned to Earth via parachute. The canister has been recovered, and will be taken to Japan where scientists will open it to find out if there is anything inside.

The return was monitored scientists from around the world, including a NASA crew on aboard a DC-8 airplane who took the video footage.
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Capsule plunges to Earth after historic visit to asteroid
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/13hayabusaentry/

BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: June 13, 2010

Cutting across the night sky at more than 27,000 mph, a small Japanese capsule returned to Earth from the surface of an asteroid Sunday, but the fate of the drum-shaped sample return craft was not immediately clear.

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Live USTREAM recorded by some very excited Japanese.
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hayabusa re-entry
Recorded on 10/06/13

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Sequence of pictures as I saw Posted on June 13, 2010 by astroengine

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Sequence of images showing #Hayabusa re-entry over Australia #JAXA

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Beautiful picture of HAYABUSA re-entry, streaking across the sky.
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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/zoom/20100613-OYT9I00808.htm
星空を進む「はやぶさ」。天の川（左）の中にある南十字星の上で消えた＝尾崎孝撮影

[My attempt at Google translation - "Take the Sky "Hayabusa". Milky Way (left) has gone on in the Southern Cross-shooting Ozaki Takashi"]
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And if you want a lot more Twitter links, try this in Google search -- #Hayabusa site:twitter.com
See, even NASA -- http://twitter.com/NASA/status/16073757786

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
Hayabusa (はやぶさ?, literally peregrine falcon)  is an unmanned space mission led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa (dimensions 540 meters by 270 meters by 210 meters) to Earth for further analysis.

The Hayabusa spacecraft, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, colour, composition, density, and history. In  November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and attempted to collect samples but failed to do so.  Nevertheless, there is a high probability that some dust swirled into the sampling chamber, so it was sealed, and the spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on June 13, 2010.

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Time is an illusion caused by the passage of history (Douglas Adams 1952-2001).

The way that we deal with time is central to a major current schism in physics. Under classic Newtonian physics and also quantum mechanics – time is absolute, a universal metronome allowing you determine whether events occur simultaneously or in sequence. Under Einstein's physics, time is not absolute – simultaneity and sequence depend on who's looking. For Einstein, the speed of light (in a vacuum) is constant and time changes in whatever way is required to keep the speed of light constant from all frames of reference.(...)
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Hayabusa's sample return capsule descends under parachute toward the Woomera desert, Australia. Credit: Corby Waste and Tommy Thompson for NASA / JPL

After overcoming multiple serious glitches, and a three-year delay in its four billion miles (six billion kilometers) round-trip journey, JAXA's Hayabusa spacecraft is expected to land in Australia around 14:00 UTC on Sunday, June 13; (midnight local time in Australia, 11 pm in Japan and 11:00 a.m. ET in the US). Scientists and space enthusiasts alike are hoping there is some precious cargo aboard in the sample return capsule: dust from an asteroid.
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Look up.
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http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/06/20100612_hayabusa_e.html
Asteroid Explorer "HAYABUSA"(MUSES-C)
Capsule reentry plan

June 12, 2010 (JST)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) assessed the trajectory of Hayabusa and confirmed that it was nominal.
JAXA will implement the capsule reentry plan.

Hayabusa system is going well.

The following are main capsule reentry plans.

   * Around 6/13 19:51(JST) : Capsule separation
   * Around 6/13 22:51(JST) : Capsule reentry

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HAYABUSA, which was launched on May 9, 2003,achieved its goal of arriving at the Itokawa asteroid and performing scientific observations. As a result, its mission was featured in the scientific magazine "Science" as a first Japanese mission to illustrate various new findings about the asteroid including its gravity and surface conditions. HAYABUSA is now under preparations for its return trip to the Earth in 2010.
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TIME ZONES:

The world is broken into 24 separate time zones that are used to help determine the time in all areas of the world. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) or UT (Universal Time) is a method of referencing the time differences across the world. The GMT or UT is centered in the middle of the time zone as 12:00. Any time zone to the left of this is -GMT or -UT and  any time zone to the right of this is +GMT or +UT. Below is a listing of time zone abbreviations, time zone descriptions and the UT difference.

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June 11, 2010 Updated
IKAROS successfully deploys sail!
The Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator "IKAROS" launched by the H-IIA F17 began to deploy its sail on June 3 (Japan Standard Time, JST,) and on June 10 (JST,) JAXA confirmed the proper extension of the sail and power generation by the thin film solar cells at about 7.7 million km from the Earth.
We will continue to measure the power generation status of the cells attached to the sail, and will verify acceleration by the cells and orbit control by their acceleration.

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MAIL SERVICE

With this JAXA Mail Service, latest information from JAXA will automatically be e-mailed to your address.

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For the first time, astronomers have observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. Using both Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii outfitted with a specifically engineered instrument named ASTRA (ASTrometric and phase-Referenced Astronomy), Joshua Eisner from the University of Arizona and his colleagues were able to peer deeply into protoplanetary disks – swirling clouds of gas and dust that feed the growing star in its center and eventually coalesce into planets and asteroids to form a solar system. What they saw is providing insight into the way hydrogen gas from the protoplanetary disk is incorporated into the star.
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An image from IKAROS, showing the completion of the second stage deployment of the solar sail. Credit: JAXA

New images and data from the IKAROS solar sail show the thin solar film has deployed and expanded successfully and is now generating power. Since its launch on May 21, 2010, teams from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have been painstakingly checking out all the systems on IKAROS before deploying the sail, and even the process of unfurling the sail had been a slow process. JAXA began to deploy the sail on June 3, analyzing each step before proceeding. Yesterday, JAXA released a photo of a partially deployed sail (below), but didn't offer much information as far as the status. But they now have confirmed that the sail was successfully expanded and is generating power. IKAROS is now about 7.7 million km from Earth.
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Pat sent me an email and would like to get the word out about bouncing signals off of the Moon and looking at the results with Slow Scan TV.
I know, I mentioned the "M..." word.  Sorry, there ARE folks interested in where we have been.
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Hello Larry,

How should/could we promote Moon Bounce communications, where I joined a team that is experimenting with an imaging mode, called Slow Scan TV.  The teams at Dwingeloo, Holland, one of a number of big dish moon bounce stations around the world, are having success in bouncing via SSTV, images off the moon.

See their website http://www.camras.nl and look for SSTV.

Best Regards,
73, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG

Arecibo  Video Tours:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vicxDnn6LEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rFeXsVz8hE&NR=1

"The most exciting phrase to hear in Science, the one that heralds new discoveries,  is not "Eureka, I have found it!"    but: "That's funny..."  ----Isaac Asimov
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http://www.camras.nl/index.php?lang=en
http://www.camras.nl/index.php?lang=nl

A link I found using SSTV as a search item.
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http://www.camras.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=149%3Asstv-eme-fotos&catid=76%3Aeme&Itemid=98&lang=en
SSTV-EME foto’s      
Written by Mark Bentum
Monday, 10 May 2010 21:12
There are no translations available.

Via Dick Harms kregen we een aantal leuke foto’s van Chris Ploeger (PA2CHR) van het SSTVEME gebeuren. Chris schreef: “Hierbij een paar foto’s die ik maakte in de shack van HB9Q
tijdens de, voor zover wij weten, eerste SSTV - EME verbinding op 70cm. ter wereld “.
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[Note: Google translate says -
Dutch to English translationShow romanization
By Dick Harms we got some nice pictures of Chris Ploeger (PA2CHR) of
SSTVEME happen. Chris wrote: "Here are some photos I took in the shack
of HB9Q
during, as far as we know, first SSTV - 70cm EME connection. world ".]
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 Also, I was a bit dense and took me a bit to realize that EME is short for Earth-Moon-Earth. (See in left navigation column)
http://www.camras.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=76&Itemid=98&lang=en
[Note: Some of the captions are in Dutch and not translated.  Give Google translate a try. http://translate.google.com/#nl|en| ]
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http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/ws1_1.html
 Earth-Moon-Earth Communication
( Moonbounce )
Here you find a collection of EME stations with their WEB pages.

Moonbounce is often equivalent with large antennas, low feed line losses, T/R relays, LNA's, HPA's,
Weaksignal detection, Moon tracking, lots of labor and system maintenance.
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A lot of information about Radio Ham activities.  See the news articles at the bottom for links to items that include Moon Bounce items.
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http://www.hobbyspace.com/Radio/index.html
Space Radio
Tuning in the cosmos...

   Communicate with astronauts aboard the Space Station....Monitor satellite transmissions...Listen to erie Natural Radio...Use amateur satellite transponders to talk to other hams around the world...

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News, Articles & Upcoming Events

   * UNITEC-1 On the Way to Venus - ARRL - May.23.10
   * Moonbounce for Everyone -- Courtesy of the Arecibo Radio Telescope! - ARRL - Apr.7.10
   * Littlest station gives us the 'sound' of Mars Express - Mars Express Blog - Mar.5.10
   * Listening for LRO and LCROSS - Frednet/X PRIZE Foundation - Sept.8.09
   * Monitor Space Shuttle launch with your police scanner - Examiner - July.11.09
   * Ham Operators Shoot the Moon - Wired.com - July.6.09
   * Ham radio operators shoot for the moon - San Francisco Chronicle - June.27.09
   * A Ham Radio Weekend for Talking to the Moon - NYTimes.com - June.26.09
   * First German Mars Mission makes sidestep to Venus: Ground station in Bochum generated echoes from Venus - AMSAT-DL - Mar.27.09
   * World Moon Bounce / EME Day Gathering Momentum - Echoes of Apollo - Mar.22.09
   * ARRL NEWS: ARISS to Celebrate 25 Years of Amateur Radio in Space with Special Events - ARRLWeb - Dec.1.08
   * Ham radio makes contact in space - canada.com - Oct.27.08
   * Postcards from space - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - Oct.21.08
   * Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, Gets Busy from Space - ARRLWeb - Oct.17.08
   * ARISS - Richard Garriott update - Oct.08
   * Hams in Space -- For the Young and Young at Heart - ARRLWeb - Sept.25.08
   * Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) - NASA - Aug.15.08
   * Hams Head into Space - ARRLWeb - June.3.08
   * Become a Ham Radio Operator - Wired How-To Wiki - May.14.08
   * Amateur radio operators prepare to contact Korean astronaut -
Korea.net News - Apr.5.08

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Very glad to hear that Arecibo Radio Telescope is still on the air.
They used to listen to Pioneer 10 and 11.
http://www.seti-inst.edu/seti/projects/project-phoenix/past_campaigns/pc-pioneer10.php
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http://www.arrl.org/news/view/moonbounce-for-everyone-courtesy-of-the-arecibo-radio-telescope
Moonbounce for Everyone -- Courtesy of the Arecibo Radio Telescope!
TAGS: amateur radio, hams, joe taylor, puerto rico, radio telescope, yagi antenna
04/07/2010

Sending Amateur Radio signals to the Moon and back has never been easy. After roundtrip journeys of nearly half a million miles, even the most powerful signals generated by hams are exquisitely weak on arrival. Because of the equipment and expertise necessary for successful "moonbounce" operating, this facet of Amateur Radio has been traditionally confined to a small audience. But for three days in April even hams with very modest stations will have the opportunity to experience the thrill of moonbounce, thanks to the giant radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

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If you read the above article you will see that I am late for the World Moon Bounce Day 2010.
Maybe you did better and will help others get the word for other upcoming events.
When I was at NASA Ames I received information from a High School student in Hungary that was listening to the Moon.
I must admit I am not looking up with all the tools that are available.
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http://echoesofapollo.com/moon-bounce/
World Moon Bounce Day 2010
EOA April 17th

This major event will add a new word to most people’s vocabulary – Moon Bounce. Moon Bounce has been happening for almost as long as the oldest of us can remember. From the early days when it was thought to be a  means of communications that the military could exploit right through to today’s more peaceful use by  amateur radio hobbyists. So what is moon bounce? Also known technically as Earth-Moon-Earth transmissions (EME), it is simply bouncing radio waves off the moon’s surface and back to earth. Every day hundreds of people enjoy doing just that and they do it as everyday people using mainly homemade dishes and antennas and  a mix of “do it yourself” systems, electronics and “off the shelf” equipment.

So why hold World Moon Bounce Day? At Echoes of Apollo we are both interested in space (especially the moon) and amateur radio. We created an event to highlight both of these amazing areas of interest. We are also looking to the commercial world to take part soon and make this an event for the whole world to enjoy

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Thanks to you folks, like Pat, that help get my head out of the books.
 Much to learn and enjoy.

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http://www.seti-inst.edu/seti/projects/project-phoenix/past_campaigns/pc-pioneer10.php
Past Observing Campaigns:
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Pioneer 10 at Arecibo

With a system designed to pick up interstellar communication signals
operating with the world's largest telescope, it's not surprising that
we can detect our own technological civilization. In this page we will
present some examples of terrestrial signals.

Our favorite signal (until we get the one from ETI) is from the
Pioneer 10 spacecraft. Launched in 1972, it now at a distance of
roughly 10,000,000,000 kilometers. Its aging transmitter broadcasts
with a power of only a few watts. The huge collecting area of the
Arecibo antenna brings it in loud and clear.

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http://echoesofapollo.com/moon-bounce/
World Moon Bounce Day 2010
EOA April 17th

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Why April 17th 2010?

At Echoes of Apollo we celebrate the amazing achievements of the
Apollo astronauts and their vast numbers of support staff, whether
part of the rocket design team, mission control or NASA’s global
communications network. We simply have the most incredible team ever
assembled with a single goal that was beyond anyones expertise at the
time of its announcement 10 years earlier. We celebrated the 40th
anniversary of Apollo 11 with out first annual World Moon Bounce Day
and this year we will be honoring Apollo 13’s return to earth 40 years
earlier. Echoes of Apollo still believe that this mission was one of
the most amazing and riveting stories of the space age. It is the only
Hollywood movie made of any of he Apollo missions.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/clearlake/special/7043269.html
JSC's future relies on moon program compromise
By STEWART M. POWELL
WASHINGTON BUREAU
June 8, 2010, 10:14PM

WASHINGTON — The political potshots have subsided and the serious horse-trading lies ahead as the White House and Congress grind toward a compromise to salvage parts of the NASA moon program crucial  to Houston's Johnson Space Center.

The legislative end-game is up in the air, as is any clear date to declare success or defeat. But the mood surrounding the space program in the nation's capital has shifted from seizing partisan advantage to pursuing at least some political pragmatism.

The predictable uproar in NASA-dependent states that greeted President Barack Obama's proposal to cancel the $108 billion Constellation program and the jobs that go with it has broadened geographically into a both a Republican and Democrat drive on Capitol Hill to protect features of the nation's legendary program of manned space exploration.

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