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The NASA budget for fiscal year 2011 would give the agency a more than 30 percent financial boost while dramatically changing the direction of future human exploration. The budget would also fund NASA to contract with private industry to provide astronaut transportation to the international space station as soon as possible.

The author talks about her blockbuster novel, The Lovely Bones, which features a surprising device: its main character, a young girl who has been murdered, narrates the book from the afterlife. Sebold's book is the basis for a new film by director Peter Jackson.

The two mortgage giants -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- could end up costing taxpayers billions more over the next three years, according to a new government report.

Ulysses S. Grant's great-great-grandson stumbled across a photograph in a family album that may show Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House. It could be the last photo ever taken of the 16th president. But is it really Lincoln?

Drummer Ahmir Thompson, also known as "Questlove," talked with Fresh Air in 2003 about his career in the hip-hop group The Roots.

The Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting with analysts predicting a half-point rate cut as policymakers try to moderate an economic slowdown driven largely by the subprime mortgage crisis.

Bolero is perhaps best known from the 1979 movie 10 soundtrack. But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece, music commentator Miles Hoffman says.

While many or the nation's major orchestras continue to struggle financially, smaller community and regional orchestras are flourishing. Jeff Lunden profiles southern New Jersey's Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

Among the thousands of funded goals included in $286.4 billion transportation bill signed by President Bush are projects that range from being simply historical to ones that aim to solve long-standing traffic snarls. From an Erie Canal museum to bridges and highways, the money is on the way.

The ceremony starts at 8 p.m. ET.