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www.actionforspace.com — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:31:44 GMT

This is fantastic. It is this kind of week that gets the public excited about space. Lets translate that into message of support of space to our politicians and presidential candidates!

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Joseph Basile, Worcester, MA — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:30:09 GMT

Great peice of reporting Alan! It's always good to hear developments in space research.

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charles brewer, Orlando, Florida — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:42:25 GMT

I'm a teacher at an elementary school. I love that MSN posts such breathtaking pictures so that I can actually show my students that space isn't some boring collection of rocks, but rather offers interest and breathtaking pictures. Thanks!

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Jerry M. Weikle, Newport News, Virginia — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:42:52 GMT

If only humanity had desire and the technological capacity to redirect asteroids and comets over towards Venus or Mars in an attempt to terraform our 'sister' worlds into habitable planets capable of supporting life.

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Scott — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:41:53 GMT

this is indeed exciting! I'm really looking forward to images of Pluto in the years to come. I only wish I lived in the era where we could photograph extra solar planets like we do Jupiter!

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JC, Fairbanks, AK — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:50:03 GMT

The International Space Station has cost us more than all of the existing probe missions combined (Cassini, both Mars rovers, 2 Mars orbitters, Messenger, several others). Is it even still in orbit? Is anyone living on it? Who can tell....it just goes round and round like the pink elephant in the sky that it is.
Two words: de-orbit burn.

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Blair Anderson, Crystal Falls, MI — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:15:47 GMT

Once people understand the beauty of space, they become more inclined to learn about it; and when they learn more about it, they tend to teach it. I've fallen in love with all things astronomical, and I hope more people eventually feel the same way. Unfortunately at the moment, hardly anybody knows anything about it. But when I add my passion for it with anecdotes and even simple binocular views of, say, Orion's Nebula, it easily inspires them to want to learn more. Everyone who sees this message, please take time to teach others about it -- or at least show them the beauty of a night sky away from lights. They'll thank you for it.

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Vectorpedia(Rick), Pittsburgh,Pa. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:44:51 GMT

Nice article on space.......way to go NASA team

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DK, Portland, OR — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:53:21 GMT

Why does NASA continue to release Mars surface photos with an excess of red coloration. Any one who's had even a brief glance at the Rover's can see that the color registration tabs are the wrong color in these shots. What's up????

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a p garcia — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:14:09 GMT

I wish you would print facts like this more often. I wish "real" science like this were done on the ISS. It seems they find new ways to package experiments that have already been done in space.

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Blake Richardson, Portales, New Mexico — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:36:42 GMT

I share your views Jerry, but will we not, as the wasteful species we are, just use those planets for mining and possibly destroy them along with our own planet?

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Paul, Mustang, OK — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:19:35 GMT

This is so cool. I'm in my late 40's and I grew up looking at planets as fuzzy dots in dusty books. Show me more, tell me more.

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Dave K. Seattle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:26:29 GMT

The space station is conducting some very crucial tests on the efficacy of Viagra in zero gravity. In the 1960s it took 8 years to get to the moon, now it takes 16 years if the space craft doesn't shake itself apart. Congratulations to the Mars rover teams for their amazing accomplishments for what cost-wise is a financial drop in the bucket.

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Frank Glover Rochester, NY — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:06:02 GMT

"I share your views Jerry, but will we not, as the wasteful species we are, just use those planets for mining and possibly destroy them along with our own planet?"

How does one 'destroy' worlds that are already lifeless and airless? Any space mining will be done on Earth's Moon and the Asteroids for the same shallow gravity well reasons that cause them to be airless and dead.

Rather than another strip mine down here that will 'look like the surface of the Moon,' I'd rather use...the surface of the Moon.

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Jerry M. Weikle — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:35:18 GMT

Is our fate, having already penned in the immortal words of Percy B. Shelly's "Ozymandias"? Having thus, emerged alas into the Anthropocene Epoch, according to Zalasiewicz and Williams. Only too retreat into the Olduvia Theory, and Malthusian oblivion?
Our consumption of oil, coal, and other natural resources having [sic]drove our species to this point and place? What then, fifty thousand years more of existance before humanity stretches forth?
Who's to say, the dinosaurs did not know of their approaching doom--maybe they were were far more intelligent--than we, mere mortals be?

Thank you, Blake and Frank G.

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DONOVAN DIXON apollo PA.l — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:30:19 GMT

Why eliminate Pluto from the Solar System ? Everyone still calls it a planet.

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Julius Payne, Gulfport, Mississippi — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:28:52 GMT

I love this kind of space reports and pictures, I have been reading NASAS reports since 1990 when I started using a computer. I hope that we find life in another plate"(s) in the short future, I,M sure there are.