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Buzz Aldrin and colleagues say NASA has been ‘visionless’ since Apollo ndash; they propose sending astronauts to new targets and forming a US Department of Spaceimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/434750/s/349ab0f/mf.gif’ border=’0′/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0′trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Astronaut-authored report says NASA needs new directionlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16660-astronautauthored-report-says-nasa-needs-new-direction.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=space-shuttle” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Astronaut-authored report says NASA needs new directionlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16660-astronautauthored-report-says-nasa-needs-new-direction.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=space-shuttle” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/32841793361/u/0/f/434750/c/749/s/55159567/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/32841793361/u/0/f/434750/c/749/s/55159567/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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