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A Dutch entrepreneur's financial plan for a colony on Mars is based on selling the television rights to cover the project every step of the way.

Television news didn't seem to fully recognize the importance of the first human to walk on the moon on the weekend he died. In the hours after Armstrong's death was announced, news networks were airing canned programming - jailhouse documentaries, a rerun interview with Rielle Hunter, Mike Huckabee's weekend show. Menacing satellite pictures of Tropical Storm Isaac had much more air time than Armstrong's dusty hops on the lunar surface. Talk of the upcoming GOP national convention sucked up the air.

What do you do when you're NASA and comedian Stephen Colbert wins your contest to name the new wing for the International Space Station?