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NASA Shutters Ideas Factory

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 22, 2007 8:47 AM CDT

(Newser) – In a cost-cutting move, NASA is shutting down its futuristic think tank, source of way-ahead-of-the-curve ideas, many of them worthy of a Star Trek script. Closing the Institute for Advanced Concepts will save $4 million out of NASA’s $16 billion dollar budget. But former...   Read full story »

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