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Space physicists plead for extended solar missions

Nature volume 387, page 747 (1997)Cite this article

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Intense budget pressures are forcing a cash-strapped US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to make the difficult decision about which of 10 current solar-terrestrial spacecraft missions should continue to operate beyond their planned lifetimes.

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We thank our colleagues for discussion and for communicating unpublished results; P. Freemont, N. Jones and A. Parker for their suggestions and for critically reading the manuscript; P. Chambon for pBL1, pASV3 and the anti-ER monoclonal antibody; B. Katzenellenbogen for 2EREppS2-CAT; N. Jones for the yeast strain; K. Hobbs for oligonucleotides; N. O'Reilly for peptides; W. Bessant for photography; and G. Clark for automated sequencing. D.M.H. and E.K. were supported by grants from the European Community TMR program and the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO), respectively.

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Reichhardt, T. Space physicists plead for extended solar missions. Nature 387, 747 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/42776

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