SETI bioastro: Fw: No big space announcement from Bush / Atlas pad gets facelift

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NO NEW SPACE POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT IMMINENT
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White House officials Thursday denied reports that President Bush planned
to announce soon a new space policy that could feature the resumption of
human missions to the Moon.

   http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/04spacepolicy/

ATLAS LAUNCH PAD GETTING EXTENSIVE FACELIFT
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A pad at America's West Coast spaceport, Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California, will soon receive a major makeover to transform the complex
into a launch site for Lockheed Martin's next-generation Atlas 5 rocket.

   http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac164/031204slc3e.html

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   http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/

FIRESTORM OF STAR BIRTH SEEN IN A LOCAL GALAXY
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This festively colorful nebula, called NGC 604, is one of the largest
known seething cauldrons of star birth in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is
similar to familiar star-birth regions in our Milky Way galaxy, such as
the Orion Nebula, but it is vastly larger in extent and contains many more
recently formed stars.

   http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/04firestorm/

NASA CITES PROGRESS IN EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH
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Nearly 10 years after Los Angeles was shaken by the devastating, magnitude
6.7 Northridge earthquake, scientists at NASA and other institutions say
maturing space-based technologies, new ground-based techniques and more
complex computer models are rapidly advancing our understanding of
earthquakes and earthquake processes.

   http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/04earthquake/

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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/04spacepolicy/">NO NEW SPACE POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT IMMINENT</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac164/031203update.html">ATLAS LAUNCH PAD GETTING EXTENSIVE FACELIFT</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/">OUR ARCHIVE OF ATLAS COVERAGE</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/04firestorm/">FIRESTORM OF STAR BIRTH SEEN IN A LOCAL GALAXY</a>

<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/04earthquake/">NASA CITES PROGRESS IN EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH</a>

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