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Top 10 places to buy a foreclosed home

Here are the Top 10 metropolitan areas to buy a foreclosed home, according to RealtyTrac:
Top 10 cities where house prices are rising

House prices continue to fall nationwide, but here and there they’ve begun to turn up as Americans return to the housing market. Which 10 metropolitan areas have seen the biggest increase in the past year? The winners, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), include a state capital, a furniture-making center, and a resort that was once America’s foreclosure capital. Can you guess who they are?
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Six great summer getaways...in space!

If you've got an adventurous spirit and a fat bank balance, these out-of-this-world holidays are for you.
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Face in Space: NASA offers to fly your picture on the space shuttle

With just two planned space shuttle missions remaining, NASA has launched the Face in Space project. Send NASA a photo of yourself, and it will fly aboard one of the final shuttle missions.
In Pictures: Space Photos of the Day 06/08
Blast-off! Why SpaceX and Falcon 9 can pull off what NASA won't do alone

On Friday morning, after several false starts, the Falcon 9 rocket was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 has been developed privately by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, with a large subsidy from NASA.
First test launch for new private rocket

The new Falcon 9 rocket has cleared its final hurdle and is on track to blast off from Cape Canaveral.
Financial aid for NASA workers about to lose their jobs

The federal government is allocating $15 million to help NASA workers find new jobs after the space shuttle program ends later this year.
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One more flight for the space shuttle Atlantis?

Debate is still underway to determine whether the space shuttle Atlantis should get one more flight or be sent straight to a museum.
Space shuttle Atlantis by the numbers

After 25 years, 32 flights, 4,648 orbits around the earh, and 120,650,907 million miles traveled, the space shuttle Atlantis makes its final touchdown.
Space shuttle Atlantis returns home safely

The space shuttle Atlantis returned back to Cape Canaveral in Florida this morning after its final scheduled mission.
Final day in orbit for space shuttle Atlantis

The six astronauts flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis are working Tuesday to prepare their spacecraft for its final planned return home.
Space shuttle Atlantis gets one last inspection before re-entry

Astronauts gave the space shuttle Atlantis's heat shield a final inspection Monday in preparation for their return to Earth.
Atlantis astronauts aboard International Space Station honor Isaac Newton

The Atlantis crew brought along a photo of Isaac Newton, as well as a chip of wood from the famous apple tree that inspired his law of gravity, which they let float freely.
Cool photo shows both Shuttle Atlantis and Space Station crossing in front of sun

A Florida photographer captured both the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station in silhouette in front of the sun last Sunday.
Shuttle Atlantis astronauts are on third spacewalk at International Space Station

Two of the Shuttle Atlantis crew are on a spacewalk, working outside the International Space Station this morning to finish a battery upgrade service call on the station's solar arrays.
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Neil Armstrong blasts Obama's plan for NASA

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, blasted Obama's decision to cancel NASA's manned mission to the moon.