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		<title>All The Signs Were There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted this to marylynnedittmar.com, but like it so much I decided to cross-post, along with the explanation.
I was listening to air-to-ground transmissions between Mission Control in Houston and Space Shuttle Atlantis, available at NASA TV.  I was on headphones, reading, listening to the exchange between flight controllers and crew, while revisiting the discovery of modern human footprints dating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Through the Looking Glass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the week in Washington, D.C., getting out 4 hours before the snow started falling on Friday.  Long week with NASA/Big Aerospace/&#8221;New Space&#8221;/AAS/AIAA colleagues, talking about NASA&#8217;s &#8220;new direction&#8221;.  Except that the new direction isn&#8217;t a direction at all, it is simply a policy change.  &#8220;Direction&#8221; implies a plan - and there is no plan.   Together with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to the U.S. Human Spaceflight Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Jeff Foust pointed out in his January 30, 2010 Space Politics post – “It’s silly season”.  His well-placed comment was aimed at the “rhetorical flourishes” of certain individuals, notably members of Congress, as they weighed in with uninformed opinions a-plenty regarding the NASA budget that no one had seen. 
As is typical for many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolslap.com/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Hallelujah: Hope For Haiti</title>
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I watched &#8220;Hope for Haiti&#8221; - the two hour concert for Haiti relief, that aired on Friday night, January 22.  The telethon was amazing in many ways - the speed with which it was put together (thanks to George Clooney and friends), the partnerships involved, the money raised so far (over $56M) - and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolslap.com/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Corporate Buyout of US Elections &#038; How to Stop It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Supreme Court reversed a hundred years of legal opinion and decisions and threw open the door to unlimited campaign contributions by corporations, trade associations and unions.  This morning, National Public Radio and others are carrying the story as the digital equivalent of a banner headline, and alot of people are stirred up, either [...]]]></description>
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