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Spain Studies Options For Military Observation Craft

PRIVATE tabstops: PARIS — The Spanish government has signed contracts with domestic industry teams to produce competing assessments of high-resolution radar and optical satellites for the Spanish Ministry of Defense, Spanish industry officials said. The work is expected to end in April, in time to be evaluated as part of Spain’s multiyear budget proposal to be set by June.

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This Was The Year Space Tourism Finally Took Off

WASHINGTON — The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne’s prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.