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us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the
subject line. Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and
commentary on space related activities under way from around the
world. On Mars, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover finds compelling
evidence that water once flowed on the planet’s surface, raising
the prospects that some form of life may have once flourished
there. Russia’s top government space official urges personnel
cutbacks to keep the country’s aerospace field competitive.
Black holes, close up. Human space exploration doesn’t seem all
that attractive to Democratic and Republican presidential
contenders. Orbital Sciences Corp., NASA’s second commercial
International Space Station re-supply service, inches closer to
the activation of a Virginia launch pad. NASA’s IG urges his
agency to break the habit of cost overruns and schedule slips.
Magnetic nozzles for matter/anti matter propulsion. 1. From
National Geographic: NASA’s Cu