<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Space Exploration</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/science/spaceexploration?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><description>Space Exploration</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Defends Shuttle Testing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10509-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10509-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA officials  denied they are cutting corners or cheapening safety standards in preparing the space shuttle for its first flight in more than two years.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Postpones Shuttle Launch by a Week]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6040-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6040-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA has moved the target date for launch to May 22 to enable engineers to complete the analysis and review of critical changes made to the orbiter in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Chief Considers Shuttle Launch]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin says the space shuttle may be launched even if it is not in full compliance with safety recommendations made in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Earth Orbit, A Rendezvous Managed by Robotic Craft]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59524-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59524-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LOS ANGELES, April 16  --  A NASA robotic spacecraft located a Pentagon satellite in space without help from human controllers, but the mission ended early when the computer-driven craft detected a fuel problem, the mission manager said Saturday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineers Present Plan to Service Hubble]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45041-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45041-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA engineers have shown they could service the Hubble Space Telescope using only robots, implicitly challenging the plan to abandon the controversial $470 million mission.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Voyager Mission May Lose Its Funding]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23500-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23500-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a cost-cutting move prompted by President Bush's moon-Mars initiative, NASA could  put an end to Voyager, the legendary 28-year mission that has sent a spacecraft farther from Earth than any object ever made by humans.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crew Completes Spacewalk]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7955-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7955-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Astronauts installed antennas and released a baby Sputnik during a spacewalk Monday, completing the work just before the station rolled slightly, as expected, because its gyroscopes were overloaded.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Factors In Public Safety During Missions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57726-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57726-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA said Tuesday it will institute strict crowd control for space shuttle launches and landings, and rely more on a seldom-used touchdown site in New Mexico, to better protect the public once flights resume in a few months.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Replaceable Part Fails On Space Station]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40767-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40767-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A circuit breaker on the international space station tripped for the second time in less than a year early Wednesday, disconnecting one of the main gyroscopes that the orbiting laboratory uses to control its position in space.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopkins Physicist, Engineer Tapped to Head NASA]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27508-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27508-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush named Johns Hopkins University physicist and engineer Michael D. Griffin, a devotee of human space travel, to serve as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shuttle Safety Weighs Heavily on Fuel Tank]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56465-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56465-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA's inability to guarantee the external tank's safety lies at the center of the debate over plans to resume human spaceflight.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inquiry Into NASA Finances Looks at Ex-Chief]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33061-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33061-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A congressional investigation of misuse of funds at the NASA is focusing in on possible abuses by recently departed NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, the Associated Press reported.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panel Warns NASA]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45587-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45587-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA should not to rely too heavily on untested computer models to determine whether the space shuttle's orbiter is safe from potentially catastrophic damage and the shuttle is ready to return to flight, experts said Friday.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Mini-Arm' Installed On Space Station]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37451-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37451-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 26 -- Leaving the international space station unattended while they stepped outside, its two crewmen hooked up a robotic arm Wednesday and found a substance on the spacecraft's vents that might explain the frequent breakdowns in its air-supply equipment.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Budget Cuts Plan To Service Hubble]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27653-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27653-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The decision is likely to set up a fresh confrontation with Congress over the fate of the orbiting observatory, sources say.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titan Images Seem to Hold Water]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11740-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11740-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It is a desperately cold, forbidding landscape, where water ice becomes fist-size  chunks of stone, but scientists said Saturday that Saturn's remote moon Titan may have one thing found nowhere else in the solar system besides Earth -- lakes and rivers.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probe Lands on Moon of Saturn]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8746-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8746-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Europe's Huygens probe parachuted 789 miles to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, ending one of space exploration's most dramatic missions by collecting the first-ever close-up photographs of a bleak, icy world.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Deep Impact' Probe to Try to Puncture a Comet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61560-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61560-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Barring unforeseen delays, NASA will launch on Wednesday a 1,325-pound spacecraft on a one-way trip to the comet Tempel 1.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Probe On Its Way to Moon of Saturn]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25987-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25987-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  CAPE CANAVERAL,  Dec. 25 -- More than 750 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe was released from NASA's Cassini orbiter Christmas Eve and placed on a collision course with Titan, one of Saturn's many moons.]]></description><author> William Harwood</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Supply Craft Reaches Space Station]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25998-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25998-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/spaceexploration</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 25 -- An unmanned Russian cargo ship brought the international space station's two-man crew a much-needed Christmas present Saturday:  2 1/2 tons of equipment, supplies and more than enough food to ease a serious shortage.]]></description><author> William 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