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Asteroid pod, rock star

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 16, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 05:42
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Thousands lined up in Japan Sunday to see a capsule from the Hayabusa space probe which was hoped to have brought asteroid dust from Itokawa back to Earth.

Would Americans line up the same way?  You betcha.  If NASA would only do something meaningful.  Instead, we get more articles about how the bloated pig Webb telescope is years behind schedule and wildly over budget with no end in sight.

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