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April 20, 2011 01:50 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LeouIkJSfDI/two-nasa-astrophysic.html
Two NASA astrophysics projects get the axe due to budget cutbacks
NASA is shutting down LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, and the International X-Ray Observatory, due to budget cutbacks. Reports PopSci, the "gigantic laser experiment intended to study the nature of gravity and an x-ray telescope designed to look at black holes are being swept into the dustbin of history, too big and too expensive to survive the federal budget ax."...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LeouIkJSfDI/two-nasa-astrophysic.html
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