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• NASA's International Space Station program wins Collier Trophy

  WASHINGTON - NASA's International Space Station Program has won the 2009 Collier Trophy, which is considered the top award in aviation. The National Aeronautic Association in Washington bestows the award annually to recognize the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America.

• NATO Defense College begins flagship course

  On 2 March, Italian Chief of Defence General Vincenzo Camporini delivered an inaugural address at the NATO Defense College in Rome to kick off the 116th Senior Course. He was welcomed by LtGen Wolf-Dieter Loeser, Commandant of the College.

• What kind of people would an explorer from another world try not to meet?

  If a spaceship with aliens from other part of the universe would come to our planet and enter a low Earth orbit in order to observe us, where would they find the most savage humans?

• Ice shelves disappearing on Antarctic peninsula - Glacier retreat and sea level rise are possible consequences

  Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands worldwide.

• NASA hosts RockOn! 2010 University Rocket Science Workshop in June

  WASHINGTON - U.S. university faculty and students are invited to a weeklong workshop to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment into space. NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is hosting the RockOn! 2010 workshop June 19-24 in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. Registrations for the 2010 workshop are being accepted through March 22.