July 5, 2004

July 5, 2004

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

INFLATION FACTOR

By CRAIG COVAULT

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Discoveries Already

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Looking Ahead

By FRANK MORRING

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

INFLATION FACTOR

Major commercial initiative for inflatable space habitat advancing key technologies, luring Chinese interest

By CRAIG COVAULT

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Discoveries Already

Saturn intriguing scientists during perfect Cassini orbit capture

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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Looking Ahead

With a 30-year plan on its plate, NASA evaluates human, robotic missions

By FRANK MORRING

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Eye-Opener

Launch funding secured by RapidEye; imaging constellation to enter service in 2007

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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NATO Backs Airlift Pool

PARIS Defense ministers from 14 NATO countries have agreed to provide a multinational airlift capability to support the out-of-area deployment of alliance forces. A memorandum of understanding, agreed to in Berlin in May, was signed at the NATO summit in Istanbul last week.
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Relativity Rehearsal

European fundamental physics missions could help shed light on Einstein’s theory

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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Milspace Warts

Transition from milspace ‘operators’ to ‘space warriors’ has wide-ranging impacts

By WILLIAM B. SCOTT

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Station Gyration

U.S.-Russian teamwork pays off again for critical ISS repair

By CRAIG COVAULT

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It's Back

Congress revives vision of commercially operated C-17s

By ROBERT WALL

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Budget Inflation

Russia’s aerospace/defense sector stands to benefit from planned rise in spending

By ALEXEY KOMAROV,DOUGLAS BARRIE

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