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		<title>Google Lunar X PRIZE Rover Fashion Show!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at MyMoon (my new home), I&#8217;m running down the best of the best, fashion-wise, of the Google Lunar X PRIZE&#8216;s rovers! Google Lunar X PRIZE Fashion Show: Part 1 Google Lunar X PRIZE Fashion Show: Part 2 Stay tuned at MyMoon for Part 3 of the most fabulous fashion show to hit the Moon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2012/google-lunar-x-prize-rover-fashion-show/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Officially Part of the MyMoon Street Team!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am now officially a member of the MyMoon Street Team! I&#8217;ll be blogging, tweeting, and representin&#8217; on all things lunar as part of their efforts to get people really talking about the Moon. My first blog over there has a Christmas theme to it&#8230;check it out: Apollo 8 Found Santa on the Far Side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/im-officially-part-of-the-mymoon-street-team/</link>
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		<title>China Taking Over the Moon? Bigelow Aerospace Worried</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Boyle over at the awesome MSNBC Cosmic Log has a great article about China&#8217;s moon colonization presence, and how it has private space heavyweight Bigelow Aerospace concerned&#8230; Will China Take Over The Moon? &#8220;Is China on course to surpass the United States as the world&#8217;s space superpower and stake a claim on the moon in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/china-taking-over-the-moon-bigelow-aerospace-worried/</link>
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		<title>Students Can Name NASA&#8217;s Twin Moon-Bound GRAIL Craft!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not quite getting your name on a lunar mare or mountain, but it&#8217;s a start&#8230; Students K-12 can now enter a contest to name two moon-bound craft! The twin craft of NASA&#8217;s lunar gravity mission, GRAIL, currently carry the thrilling names of GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B&#8230;so, NASA has opened up this essay contest to give the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/nasagrailcraftcontest/</link>
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		<title>When One Door Closes&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glass half empty, or glass half full?]]></description>
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		<title>Even More Moon Water Found! Apollo 17 Orange Soil Adds Wrinkle to Moon Origin Theories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study of the famous orange soil from Apollo 17 shows that the Moon&#8217;s interior holds even more water than previously thought&#8230;and that our current lunar origin theories are holding a little less. The rather chance discovery came from a look at pockets within crystals found on the lunar surface. Using new tech, researchers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/even-more-moon-water-found-apollo-17-orange-soil-adds-wrinkle-to-moon-origin-theories/</link>
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		<title>50 Years Ago Today:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space. Those who came before us made certain that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/50-years-ago-today/</link>
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		<title>Lockheed Accelerates NASA&#8217;s Orion&#8212;Manned Lunar Flyby in 2016?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive interview with Universe Today, Lockheed Martin&#8217;s John Karas announced today that they&#8217;ve accelerated NASA&#8217;s Orion craft to a 2013 first launch&#8212;with a potential 2016 manned lunar flyby! One of the few pieces of NASA&#8217;s Constellation program to survive it&#8217;s cancellation, the Orion is the manned vehicle slated to replace (more or less) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/lockheed-accelerates-nasas-orion-manned-lunar-flyby-in-2016/</link>
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		<title>Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #44</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition challenging private space enterprises to land a rover on the Moon. Every two weeks, I round up the latest developments as the teams rocket forwards and upwards… Apollo veterans are popping up left and right across the GLXP! Lots of content and some great interviews from March 15-31st, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/google-lunar-x-prize-roundup-44/</link>
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		<title>SpaceX Reveals New Falcon Heavy&#8212;World&#8217;s Most Powerful Rocket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading private space company SpaceX has announced their newest rocket: the Falcon Heavy! Taking aim at the United Launch Alliance&#8216;s Delta IV, the Falcon Heavy will be not only the most powerful rocket in the world, but the most powerful since the legendary Saturn V of the Apollo missions. (That might not be for long, though, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://luna-ci.com/2011/spacex-reveals-new-falcon-heavy-worlds-most-powerful-rocket/</link>
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