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Last week I mentioned the retirement of the Shuttle program was scheduled this year, but might not make it. Originally schedule to have the last flight on October1, it has been pushed back to November so scientists can adapt a $2 billion particle detector for an extended life aboard the International Space Station, officials said Monday.

Obviously, the retirement doesn’t appear to have a hard timeline at this point, and they surely aren’t all losing their hair over it and being forced to check out www.hairlossformen.org.

Obama’s budget request for NASA for the year beginning October 1, which still must be approved by Congress, includes $600 million to keep the program going until the end of the year if necessary to accommodate technical or weather-related delays.

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