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Space is for science: and not for shuttles, stations, and Bushian 'vision'.(THE ADMINISTRATION)

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| June 05, 2006 | Derbyshire, John | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SOME of the greatest advances of human knowledge in the present age have occurred in the space sciences. There are those wonderful pictures of the planets returned to us by robot spacecraft, resolving what had been fuzzy blobs or mere points of light in the telescopes of just 50 years ago into landscapes and skies, mountains and rock-strewn plains, volcanoes and storm systems. Just as sensational, and perhaps more important in the long run, have been the results returned from robot telescopes in orbit or in the stratosphere, observing the weird and mysterious objects that inhabit extrasolar space, or peering back to the remotest regions of the universe in search of ...

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