Scientists leap at NEAP opportunity, NASA to support mission

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University of Arizona scientists have formally signified an intent to furnish two scientific instruments that will travel with SpaceDev's Near Earth Asteroid Prospector mission spacecraft in 2001. The spaceship is expected to rendezvous with the asteroid 4660 Nereus by mid-2002.

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Private mission control

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Space Industries International Inc has started operating the Commercial Payload Operations Control Center, which is a private space mission control center, last June, 1992. The functional control center offers low-priced but efficient products and services to its customers.

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Needed: a private property standard for space

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A private property standard for space needs to be developed so that investments for the commercial development of space can be realized. Many investors will shy away form the commercial development of space without any clear returns on their investments.

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