Article: MEDIA SPACE & ASTRONOMY: Media Roundup - Steady interest in space fueled by broad implications.

Space and aeronautics are hot topics, but it's no longer the idea of discovery that keeps the media coming back for more - it's the commercial side and the potential to change life on Earth, finds David Ward

From Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon to the real-life dramas of Apollo 13 and the Challenger tragedy, the media - especially television - has given the world a front-row seat as man makes his first tentative efforts to explore what lies beyond this planet.

More recently, Hubble space telescope pictures of the far reaches of the galaxy and reports of asteroids passing close - at least in cosmic terms - to the Earth, have continued to fuel ...

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