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Cygnus Spacecraft

From NPR's Morning Edition – NASA’s administrator is defending the president’s proposed budget for NASA, which cancels the space agency’s planned space shuttle successor and instead relies on private companies to taxi crews into orbit.

Lolo Beaubrun

From NPR's John Burnett – When we walked into Lolo Beaubrun’s garden in Port-au-Prince and sat down, he’d invited three young musicians from a group called All Four Stars to back him up on a song they’d written in the days after, in Beaubrun’s words, “that thing that happened to us.”

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