To address these issues, NASA needs the full funding for the President's FY 1999 request for the Space Station and Space Shuttle programs.

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An extra day is expected to be added to the mission at the request of International Space Station managers in order to carry out extra tasks on the station.

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Mr. Hollopeter's recent work was sparked by a request last November for space-cleaning ideas from Launchspace Training, a space consulting firm in Bethesda, Md.

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Because the jamming was causing collateral damage to neighboring channels on Hotbird, the BBC reluctantly agreed to a request from a satellite-space middleman to move to another Eutelsat satellite, called W3A. It is less-watched, and the move initially cut BBC Persian's reach by at least half, the channel's director, Sadeq Saba, estimates.

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In the speech, the president did not change the broad outline of the vision for the US space agency he first expounded in his 2011 federal budget request.

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Florida's request comes as NASA is working to revamp the Kennedy Space Center following the end of the shuttle program last year.

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"We continue to request that Madiba and his family be accorded the necessary space and privacy and thank the media and the public for co-operation, " the statement from the presidency said.

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