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Armed with the combination of the Keck's power and the detector's sensitivity, Ghez has been able to measure the motions of stars that lie 100 times as close to the core as the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, lies to the sun, and he finds that they're whipping...
So the international consortium of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada has started small, with just three men. As the station nears completion in five or six years, the number will grow to seven, but not much more than that. Still, NASA and its partners hope it will...
The Mars missions, scheduled throughout the next 15 years, are designed to examine and sample Martian ground and atmospheric conditions - an investigation that scientists hope will answer the ultimate question: Is there now, or has there ever been, life on Mars?
The scientists are placing particular emphasis on one robot, tellingly named Mars 2003. This vehicle, now slated for launch in 2011, will ostensibly touch down, collect soil samples, and zip back to Earth. NASA estimates the 300-pound rover will cost between $1 billion and $2 billion.
Unfortunately for the space agency, American public opinion has never been less hospitable to NASA's dreams: The Mars program has weathered two expensive losses in the past two years, and taxpayers are increasingly opposed to funding potentially useless probes and robots. NASA officials are apparently hoping their current public...