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Stardust Melody: Spaceship Has Date With Comet on Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day late tonight, a stalwart spaceship will burn the dregs of its fuel to rendezvous with a beautiful comet -- the spaceship's final feat before it goes to sleep forever. Like all tales of chivalry, this one has an element of suspense. Scientists worry that by sheer bad luck, the NASA spaceship Stardust...

Air Force Aims to Launch 'Spy Pigeon' Drone by 2015

(July 8) -- In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials often had to rely on grainy satellite photos to decide whether facilities on the ground were intended for producing weapons of mass destruction. Now imagine that instead of overhead satellite imagery -- or even high-flying unmanned aircraft -- they could...