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      <title>Can We Jump-Start A New Space Age?</title>
      <description>Looking over the state of U.S. science funding these days, it&apos;s hard not to get depressed. But the BoldlyGo Institute challenges us to remember that the stakes are too high to give up.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 07:04:00 -0400</pubDate>
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