Thus if the federal budget is cut by sequestration or a new president with different priorities is elected or NASA decides to shift its goals in space, the business strategies of space entrepreneurs can be impaired overnight.
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But such a shift occurred on October 4th when SpaceShipOne reached space for the second time in six days.
The Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) community could bring another shift as start-ups begin invading this space, switching the emphasis to managing personal data assets on behalf of users.
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Among them are Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Need For Speed Shift, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Sim City 4, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Mirror's Edge.
"America's space industry is taking a quantum leap forward with this historic shift, " said John Gedmark, executive director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
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As dunes build up absent a storm to knock them down they shift closer to the high-tide line, and nesting space shrinks.
The paradigm shift, which began with SpaceShipOne's first flight into space in June, is away from government-funded space programmes to a dynamic bevy of private efforts.
The aim of the speech was clear: to shift Labour into the middle ground of British politics, a space that Mr Miliband claims the Conservatives have vacated.
But now, right-handed hitters like Alex Rodriguez are forced to deal with the shift, seeing a mass of infielders in the left-field space where he used to deposit soft line drives for hits.
The shift to a greener economy involves changes in the way we use space as much or more as changes in the way we use fuel: People reorganizing their lives in ways that allow them to walk to work rather than drive.
If it is unable to either shift from the big-box retail format to smaller stores, or optimize store space by sub-leasing to other businesses, operating costs will not come down.
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