NASA Awards Two Small Explorer Development Contracts

NASA has selected two science proposals to be developed into full missions as part of the agency's Small Explorer, or SMEX, Program. The selections will implement projects that will study our sun and some of the most exotic objects in the universe, such as neutron stars and black holes. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Both missions will launch by 2015; the