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While others are argueing about how much it can lift others are say look how little it costs.

Launch Systems Rockets Priced to Move
Dot-com millionaire Elon Musk put his profits into orbit.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/a … 17,00.html

Well ERRORIST here is an article you might like then, enjoy the reading.

Mining The Moon
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science … ning_moon/

I hope that the next generation rovers have a different steering design than the mars rovers do currently.

I am quite surprised by the increased power from the solar panels which should not be happening.

One avenue to get it onto the TV would be to see if local cable providers would broadcast it into there networks where ever possible, see if the local PBS channels would be willing to add segments to there normal broadcast and by the way we are mostly there in the the webcast from nasa is available as a starting point if permission were granted to rebroadcast, couple that with home grown shows and news commentary segments and you done. Add to that the political side of the congress law making process and budget appropriation news to complete the main body of the efforts to educate the public. Visit Nasa facility, do guest interviews and fill out the programming line up as if it where an editorial style news broadcast. I know, I am probably confusing with my writing style.

Nasa tv page:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Kind of reminds me of how the song Riders of the storm starts out. Thunder crashing, the rain a falling and will be worth the wait to hear it.

This article gets into the atmosphere, temperature and much more that maybe revealed by the on board radar imaging system. The last attempts were with the voyager missions back in 80, 81.

Craft to probe Saturn moon's secrets

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn....00.html

Well finally here is an article about the risk assessment for the Hubble re-entry if it should come to that. End of article gets into the actual calculations.

Experts Calculate Risk of Uncontrolled Hubble Re-entry
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/hst_s … 41021.html

This article does show promise for what the station was intended for all along.

Russia to increase number of space experiments on ISS
http://www2.interfax.ru/eng/news/politi … story.html

update as it appears on the abcnews site:
New Space Telescope Would Use a Technology Normally Limited to Earth Scientists Designing a 'Space Railroad'

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=179271&page=1

But the war on terror, funding of the war in Iraq will remain no matter who is elected. Here are some numbers for troop and from which nation are currently in Iraq.

Which countries are providing military support
United States 138,000 
Britain 8,530
Albania 70
Australia 850
Azerbaijan 150
Bulgaria 455
Czech Rep. 92
Denmark 510
Dominican Rep. 300
El Salvador 360
Estonia 55
Georgia 150
Hungary 300
Italy 2,700
Japan 1,000
Kazakhstan 25
Latvia 120
Lithuania 105
Macedonia 28
Moldova 25
Mongolia 180
Netherlands 1,263
New Zealand 60
Nicaragua 115
Norway 150
Poland 2,400
Portugal 120
Romania 730
Singapore 200
Slovakia 105
South Korea 675 (3,000 on way)
Thailand 460
Tonga 44
Ukraine 1,700

News release from Northrop on space inertial reference unit that has operated continuously aboard NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, which successfully entered orbit around Saturn on June 30, seven years after being launched from Kennedy Space Center. Lots of info on the other equipment and mission goals.

http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/page … ml?d=65846

The Southwest Research Institute, also in Boulder, recently landed a contract to design New Horizons, a roughly $600 million mission to Pluto that could launch as early as 2006.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,141 … 86,00.html