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	<title>Mustafa Arif &#124; مصطفی عارف &#187; Space</title>
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		<title>Academics should not allocate research funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s long been the case that the greatest barrier to the advancement of a UK involvement in manned space exploration programme has been the vested interests of the scientific establishment. Distinguished academic prima donnas have a tendency to allocate research funds to their own pet projects (or to at least vote down expensive projects that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping up with China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month’s IET Engineering &#038; Technology magazine focuses on China. Two particular articles worth reading are The Next Science Superpower? and Space: The Chinese Way. The opening paragraph of the second article is the most striking: China made its first manned spaceflight 40 years after America and the Soviet Union, but that doesn’t mean it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting open-minded about manned spaceflight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across an article on a possible change to UK space policy [The Times], based on an interview with the recently appointed Science Minister, Malcolm Wicks MP. From the article: The Government’s long-standing refusal to fund manned spaceflight could be reconsidered to allow British astronauts to join expeditions to the Moon and Mars, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Chipling – Paper spacecraft pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing the Imperial College news digest, I was pleasantly surprised to find this gem from the Daily Mail about Andy Chipling of the Paper Aircraft Association. I have fond memories of Andy from his days as a technician at IC, when he would help us each year to organise the C&#038;G Egg Race. Imperial daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper accepted for ESA Wireless in Space Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My paper, based on my MSc dissertation, has been accepted for next month’s Wireless in Space workshop at the European Space Agency. So, I&#8217;ll be travelling to the Netherlands to present it (3)]]></description>
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		<title>NASA take Shuttle risk by overruling engineers (again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA have announced they are ignoring their engineers&#8217; concerns over safety and launching the Space Shuttle Discovery next month. The last time NASA ignored it&#8217;s engineers it resulted in the Challenger disaster. (0)]]></description>
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