Seems there are more than a few fans of the movies "Deep Impact"
and "Armageddon" in the halls of Congress. On Thursday, lawmakers
derided NASA for not spending enough to detect "Near-Earth Objects"
(NEOs).
On Friday, Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko successfully completed a six-and-a-half hour
excursion outside the International Space Station, to finish up
work they'd originally planned to accomplish last week, when the
shuttle Discovery was still berthed to the station.
55 Cancri Takes Record For Number Of Extrasolar Planets
Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently
announced the discovery of a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a
star beyond our solar system. The star now holds the record for
number of confirmed extrasolar planets orbiting in a planetary
system.
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