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 Peanuts - Nuts - Snacks. (ps1)
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 The Examiner 
Nut growers look to space for support, guidance
Mon 6 Jul 2009
Comments ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Map, News) - Space is preparing to go a little nuts. NASA satellite images could soon give information to nut growers about their orchard's health, allowing them to stay... (photo: Public Domain file / -)
Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke (left), Expedition 9 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, and cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, commander, pose for their crew portrait while in training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia for their scheduled launch in the spring of this year in a Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft. Padalka represents the Federal Space Agency.
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 Kansas City Star 
Missouri native picked to be NASA astronaut
Sun 5 Jul 2009
More News RICHLAND, Mo. | A Missouri native's lifelong dream was realized when he became part of the 2009 class of NASA astronauts, his fourth attempt since 1996. Mike Hopkins, 40, is an Air Force... (photo: Creative Commons / Bricktop)
Indian Space Research Organization Chairman G. Madhavan Nair looks on during a press conference after the successful launch of India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, or Moon Craft in ancient Sanskrit, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, north of Chennai, India, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. India launched its first mission to the moon Wednesday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface.  The Times of India  Sat 4 Jul 2009
ISRO eyes 25% revenue growth in 2009-10
              Text: KOLKATA: The Indian Space Research Organisation is expecting a 25 percent growth in its revenue in 2009-10, ISRO chairman G. Madhavan... (photo: AP / Aijaz Rahi)
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 On July 20th, 1969, humans first set foot on the Moon. Taken from a window of their Apollo 11 lunar module, the Eagle, this picture shows the footprints in the powdery lunar soil made by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.   vio1  The Guardian  Sat 4 Jul 2009
The man who fell to earth
Forty years ago Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. He was there for two and a half hours, but the breakdown which followed lasted a decade. He tells Stephen Moss how he has finally... (photo: NASA)
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NASA's modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with Atlantis on top lifts off to begin its ferry-flight back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the STS-117 mission San Fransisco Chronicle Sun 5 Jul 2009
Backup plan to get NASA to moon cheaper

(07-05) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Like a car salesman pushing a luxury vehicle that the customer no longer can afford, NASA has pulled out of its back pocket a deal for a... (photo: Creative Commons / Carla Thomas)
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 NASA-Science-Technology. (sl1) Houston Chronicle Sun 5 Jul 2009
Give NASA the chance to be next Google
As it celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings, NASA may be facing its greatest challenge in history. Envisaged is a return to the moon, the... (photo: Public domain photo)
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 Tv - technology - media Ohio Sat 4 Jul 2009
Clicking away at TV technology
In 1955, Zenith introduced the first wireless TV remote control, the Flash-Matic, followed a year later by the Space Command. Since then, the standard remotes that most... (photo: WN/Riham Hafez)
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 View ofearth from space, with satellite and moon visible (cg1) Ohio Sat 4 Jul 2009
Company launches satellite to eliminate 'dead zones'
Associated Press The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space this week, with a mission to... (photo: NASA file)
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Atlantis Lifts Off! and Under a dry, hot, cloud-washed Florida sky, space shuttle Atlantis roars off Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida with its crew of seven for a rendezvous with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Examiner Thu 2 Jul 2009
NASA's LRO Spacecraft Sends First Lunar Images to Earth

Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE GREENBELT, Md. (Map) - GREENBELT, Md., July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or... (photo: NASA / Fletcher Hildreth)
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 ag2  White Flower Seattle Times Thu 2 Jul 2009
White flowers are garden standouts
White is the most underestimated color in the garden. It is often overlooked as a noncolor, sacrificed for blues and reds and much hotter hues. But there is far more to... (photo: WN / aruna)
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