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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-31109-1.html">NASA tries to get the private section into the rocket-launching business by awarding a total of about $500 million to two companies to develop low-cost flights to the International Space Station. </blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-31109-7.html" href="http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-31109-7.html" style="font-size: 11px;">content.zdnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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