 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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China says lunar probe in final orbit, backs off reports on space station
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BEIJING -- China said its lunar probe had entered its final orbit
around the moon Wednesday, but an official backed away from reports
of launching a space station by 2020.
The probe -- called Chang'e 1 after a mythical Chinese goddess
who flew to the moon -- made final adjustments at the end of a two-
week journey and entered its final working orbit of 125 miles from
the moon Wednesday where it will explore its surface for the next
year.
The first photo of the moon should be sent...
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China says lunar probe in final orbit, backs off reports on space station
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ... published, there are no plans for a space station," Li Guoping, spokesman of the China National Space Administration, said at a news conference. The China Daily newspaper, said China's planned space station would be "a small-scale, 20-ton space workshop," quoting ...
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Chinese probe reaches moon, enters final orbit Officials back off claim of space station by 2020
Oakland Tribune
; ... published, there are no plans for a space station," Li Guoping, spokesman of the China National Space Administration, said at a news conference. The China Daily newspaper, said China's planned space station would be "a small-scale, 20-ton space workshop," quoting ...
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Revamped Space Station Project Barely Survives Vote in House
The Washington Post
; A redesigned space station barely got off the legislative launching pad yesterday as a bipartisan House coalition of budget cutters almost grounded the manned scientific mission. An amendment to terminate the space station program was defeated, 216 to 215, an unusually close margin in the House.
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Space station funds come crashing to earth. (government funding of NASA's Space Station Freedom)
EDN
; Space station funds come crashing to earth The USE space program is the most likely sponge for absorbing out-of-work engineers laid off due to the slow-down in military spending; that's according to observers of the aerospace electronics industry. Yet national budget pressures and escalating
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Can 'Freedom' be maintained? (space station)
R & D
; Can `Freedom' be maintained? THE FREEDOM space station, the cornerstone in NASA's long-range plans, might require astronomical amounts of maintenance and repair just to keep it in working order. A preliminary report on the maintenance needs for the 290-ton, 500-foot-long structure say nearly 2,300
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Is the manned space program doomed? A scaled-down space station may be pointless.
U.S. News & World Report
; A scaled-down space station may be pointless For a spacecraft that has not yet left the ground, it has already been a very bumpy ride. Over its eight-year history, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's space station, Freedom, has been repeatedly scaled down, redesigned and called a
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Another word for nothing left to lose. (space station) (1993 - The Year in Science)
Discover
; THE PROPOSED U.S. SPACE STATION FREEDOM SURVIVED YET ANOTHER NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE IN 1993, SQUEAKING THROUGH THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BY A SINGLE VOTE. AND AFTER ITS FIFTH TRIP TO THE DARWING BOARD IN SEVEN YEARS, IT EMERGED WITH A DRASTICALLY PARED-DOWN LOOK, THE PROSPECT OF RUSSIAN
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House Votes to Restore Space Station Funding
The Washington Post
; Three weeks after a spending subcommittee refused to fund NASA's $40 billion space station Freedom, the House voted 240 to 173 yesterday to restore the full $1.9 billion in funding for the coming fiscal year. But in granting a reprieve to one of the space agency's premier manned flight projects,
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CRUCIAL DECISIONS IMMINENT ON US SPACE STATION
The Boston Globe
; Development of the US space station, planned as the keystone of the nation's space program for the next decade, is facing its most critical period since President Reagan made it a national priority in his 1984 State of the Union address. Within the next few weeks, budget appropriations to begin
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International Space Station becomes NASA's main focus.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; Byline: V. Dion Haynes and Peter Gorner HOUSTON _ The shuttle Columbia disaster is focusing new attention _ favorable and unfavorable _ on NASA's $100 billion International Space Station, a sports stadium-sized structure orbiting 240 miles above Earth that is billed as the most ambitious and
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