12/30/03 - NASA Comet Hunter Closing on Quarry. Having trekked 3.2 billion kilometers (2 billion miles) across cold, radiation-charged and interstellar-dust-swept space in just under five years, NASA's Stardust spacecraft is closing in on the main target of its mission -- a comet flyby.
		12/29/03 - Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status. NASA's Spirit rover spacecraft fired its thrusters for 3.4 seconds on Friday, Dec. 26, to make a slight and possibly final correction in its flight path about one week before landing on Mars.
		12/23/03 - Ion Engine Under Consideration for Jupiter Mission Passes Test. A new ion propulsion engine design, one of several candidate propulsion technologies under study by NASA's Project Prometheus for possible use on the proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission, has been successfully tested by a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
		12/18/03 - NASA Announces New Name for Space Infrared Telescope Facility. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced that NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility has been renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope.
		12/18/03 - NASA Releases Dazzling Images From New Space Telescope. A new window to the universe has opened with today's release of the first dazzling images from NASA's newly named Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility.
		12/17/03 - Mars May Be Emerging from an Ice Age . NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions have provided evidence of a recent ice age on Mars.
		12/10/03 - Mission Captures Galaxies Galore. The most sensitive and comprehensive ultraviolet image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy, has been captured by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
		12/10/03 - NASA Scientists Discover Spring Thaw Makes a Difference . Using a suite of microwave remote sensing instruments aboard satellites, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Montana, Missoula, have observed a recent trend of earlier thawing across the northern high latitudes.
		12/8/03 - Odyssey Studies Changing Weather and Climate on Mars. Mars may be going through a period of climate change, new findings from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter suggest.
		12/5/03 - The Measure of Water: NASA Creates New Map for the Atmosphere. NASA scientists have opened a new window for understanding atmospheric water vapor, its implications for climate change, and ozone depletion.
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