A new state of matter found in laboratories? (Very technical, but does an ok job at explaining to the layman [considering].)
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NASA is (at long last) actively investigating the retirement of the Shuttle.
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China will put an astronoaut in space (the third country to ever do so) in three days. The whole thing seems bizarrely iffy, though (i.e. we don't know if it will make 1 or 14 orbits).
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