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Published online 29 July 2008 |
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| doi:10.1038/454557a
Corrected online: 30 July 2008
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Italy picks businessman to head space agency
Move seen as shift from research to commerce and defence.
Italian scientists are worried that a shake-up of the nation's space agency will put commercial and defence interests ahead of research.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in the process of replacing the president of the Italian Space Agency.
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