The scale of the searches has been increased dramatically since 1992, when the US Congress voted NASA $10 million per year for ten years to conduct a thorough search for extra-terrestrial life.

自1992年，美国国会计划在未来10年里每年为美国国家航空航天局投入1,000万美元，用于彻底搜寻外星生命体以来，搜寻的规模开始大幅增长。

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Just this March, however, NASA launched the Kepler satellite to search for Earth-like planets.

不过，就在这个三月，NASA启动了开普勒卫星去搜寻类似地球的行星。

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Online lookups for "99942 apophis" jumped sharply while "pictures of asteroids" and "apophis NASA report" also posted strong spikes in the Search box.

“阿波菲斯99942”的在线搜索率急剧上升，与此同时，“小行星图集”和“阿波菲斯国家航空和宇航局报告”在搜索框检索率也出现很强劲峰值。

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NASA scientists hope to extend their search for water as deep as five meters beneath the surface of the moon.

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Forty years later, while preparing for the historic anniversary, NASA began a frantic search for those images after a well-publicized loss of the original video of the Apollo 11 landing.

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Congress and the public constantly criticize NASA, and scrutinize the work of scientists like Davis in the search for wasteful spending.

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There are hundreds of technologies that got their start at NASA. You can search through the database for different categories from consumer to medical to transportation.

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