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NASA In Jeopardy: Has Presidential Policy Killed NASA?

Has Presidential policy killed NASA? The future of space flight at NASA is as uncertain as the health of our Discovery space shuttle. Both seem to be fragmenting. NASA technicians can repair the Discovery but will they be able to salvage NASA?

Suffering from disaster, chaos and public disinterest, NASA needed a booster shot in 2004. What they got a was a booster rocket. As the saying goes, "With treatment- symptoms worsen."

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Arsenic and Old Space: The Possibilities of Life

NASA funded research uncovers a microbe which can substitute Arsenate for Phosphate and redefines life as we know it. Felisa Wolf-Simon, head author of the paper submitted by the NASA team, says the discovery, "Cracks open the doors for what we might find in the universe."

With a new play book for what life is and where it can survive, our search for alien life changes - allowing us to investigate previously "uninhabitable" environments and recognize previously unthinkable life forms.

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