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October 31
- NASA's Mission to Service Hubble in 2008 Will Cost $900 Million
- Antarctic Microbes Handle Mars-Like Conditions
- Hubble Saved: NASA Approves Shuttle Flight to Service Space Telescope
- Decision Day: NASA to Announce Hubble Space Telescope's Future Today
October 30
- Orbcomm Sets Ambitious Subscriber Goals with IPO
- Mass Migration: How Stars Move in Crowd
October 27
- Despite Setbacks, Teams Set Sights On Lunar Lander Purse
- Watch the Great Bear Hibernate
- Next Space Tourist Launches Website, Aims for Orbit
October 26
- Star Explosion is Suprisingly Neat & Tidy
- Uranus Has a Dark Spot
- Al Gore: Earth is in 'Full-Scale Planetary Emergency'
- Wow! Striking Green Comet Suddenly Visible in Evening Sky
- After ISS Docking, Antenna Glitch Delays Russian Cargo Ship Operations
- X-Prize Space Elevator Race Ends With No Winners
- One Long Trip: NASA's Spirit Rover Hits 1,000th Martian Day
- Harnessing Asteroids and Comets to Travel the Solar System
- NASA's STEREO Spacecraft Begin Sun-watching Mission
October 25
- Orbital Fire Brigade: Better Smoke Detectors for Future Spacecraft
October 24
- Martian Life Could Have Evaded Detection by Viking Landers
- In Formative Years, the Sun Had Sisters
October 23
- Report: Space Radiation a Serious Concern for NASA's Exploration Vision
- Teachers See Educational Value in Pluto's Demotion
- With NASA Budget Cuts Looming, SETI Eyes Private Funding
- Cosmic Rays Linked to Global Warming
October 22
- Space Elevator Competition Extended One Day
October 21
- Top Contender for Lunar Lander Prize Crashes
- X Prize Cup Founders and Spaceport America Look to the Future
- Lunar Lander Rocket Runs Into Touchdown Troubles
- Next Space Station Piece to Fly Vital for Orbital Assembly
October 20
- Lunar Lander Rocket Flies But Fails In Bid For Prize Dollars
- NPP Satellite Sensor Damaged in Testing
- Wirefly X Prize Cup Opens To Rockets Roaring, Delays
- Introducing: Thunderhawk -- First X-Racer Officially Named
- Handicapping the Space Elevator Games
- Baseball Diamonds in the Sky
October 19
- Challenges Ahead for Spaceport America
- PlanetQuest: Join the Hunt for Extrasolar Planets
- Astronaut Advice for Future Space Tourists
October 18
- SOFIA Reborn: High-Flying Observatory Faces Years of Flight Tests
- New Images Dampen Hope for Water Ice on Moon
- Collision Created Rings Around Andromeda
October 17
- Progress Touted In Private Space Travel
- Last Minute Glitch Prevents European Weather Satellite Launch
- NASA Eyes Shuttle Launch Delays for 2007
- Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Expected Nov. 18
October 16
- 'Another New Mars': NASA Orbiter Ready for Red Planet Science
- NASA Weighs Power-Source Options for Mars Rover
- Dancing Asteroid Mapped in Motion
October 13
- Shuttle Discovery's Next Astronaut Crew Examines Spacecraft
- Wirefly X Prize Cup: Rocketry Takes Center Stage
- The Orionid Meteor Shower: See the Legacy of Halley's Comet
October 12
- Distant Planet is Half Fire, Half Ice
- Large Galaxy Caught in the Making
- Ad Astra: Taking Spaceflight Into Our Own Hands
- Apollo-Era Mission Control Room Revived For Space Station
- Combing the Cosmos at High Speed: The Allen Telescope Array
- Jupiter's Small Spot Changes Hues
October 11
- UP Aerospace Delays Second Suborbital Rocket Launch
- Saturn’s Shadow Sheds Light on Rings
- Titan’s Surface: Dusty Dunes?
- NASA Jet Bears Nose that Grows for Sonic Boom Tests
October 10
- Expedition 14 Crew Takes Short Soyuz Trip Outside ISS
- Rare Event: Mercury to Cross the Sun Nov. 8
October 9
- Nearest Planet Beyond Solar System Might Be Photogenic
- 'Star Trek' Starship Fetches Over $500,000 in Auction
- Astronomers See Early Stages of Star Explosions
- Bursting the Spherical Bubble: Universe Might Be Pill-Shaped
October 8
- NASA Clears Space Shuttles for Night Launches
October 7
- New Bush Space Policy Unveiled, Stresses U.S. Freedom of Action
October 6
- Red Planet Double Team: NASA Orbiter Spies Mars Rover at Victoria Crater
- Black Hole Belts Out Discordant Musical
- Showtime for Spaceship Builders
- Tonight's Full Moon 12 Percent Bigger
- Moon to Hide Star Cluster Oct. 9-10
October 5
- NASA: Atlantis Shuttle's Radiator Struck by Object in September Flight
- Black Holes Power the Brightest Cosmic Objects, Study Confirms
- NASA Completes Survey of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes
- Origin of Strange 'Blue Straggler' Stars Pinned Down
- Shadows and Silhouettes: Looking for Transits
October 4
- FTC Approves Creation of United Launch Alliance
- On Zippy New Planets, a Year is Just Hours Long
October 3
- Space Tourism Survey Shows Cost, Access Key Selling Points
- New ISS Astronauts Settle in for Long Haul
- Expedition 14’s Space Station Crew Shuffle
- Mysterious Radio Hiss Blamed on Space Weather
- Astronaut Biography: Michael Lopez-Alegria
- Cosmonaut Biography: Mikhail Tyurin
October 2
- Mars Rover Opportunity's Victory at Victoria
- Committee Warns NASA To Keep CEV on Track
- Galactic Birth Control: Unknown Factor Prevents Star Formation
October 1
- NASA’s Vision Takes to the Road
- Software Revises Neil Armstrong's Moon Quote