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While everyone would most likely prefer to be sitting on the 50 yard line rather than at home, sometimes it’s just not possible. Especially in tougher economic times, buying season tickets just isn’t the no-brainer that it used to be. And for many sports fans, a chance to watch a favorite team play actually requires more hassle than it’s worth, especially for those people who have since relocated to distant locales and find it easier to try and track down a sports bar in their new adopted city rather than to fly all the way back home for a single sporting event.
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There are plenty of reasons to leave your hometown for something else, whether it’s college, jobs, or marriage. But some old habits die hard, and that includes rooting for the home team that you remember from childhood, not the one that happened to come with your adopted city of choice. For hardcore sports fans, getting used to the difference can be a little like the cultural shock that one experiences when moving to a foreign country and realizing that certain holidays might not have the same significance.
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The Proton M/Briz M rocket that is to loft DirecTV 12 has been moved to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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China plans to launch Chang’e-2, the country’s second lunar probe, at the end of 2010, according to the State Administration of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense.
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All systems are behaving as expected on NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which was launched on 14 December from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA.
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Iran has announced yet another indigenous satellite: AUT SAT, apparently a small remote sensing spacecraft designed by a university.
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The Russian space programme will be “fully funded” in 2010, Federal Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov said. His deputy, though, does not sound quite as upbeat.
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The GIOVE-A satellite – the first step in Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation programme – was launched on 28 December 2005. The 660 kg spacecraft was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for ESA in just 30 months at a cost of just EUR28 million.
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