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Apple Crockell wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slides...779755385.jpg/

**** NASA, and its idle and empty threats regarding the reuse of
pictures me and my fellow Americans paid for with our hard earned tax
money.

The link you used was to an Associated Press article, not to a NASA picture.
How do you know that it was NASA a NASA restriction and not an AP restriction?

Go find the picture on one of NASA's web sites and see what restrictions NASA
places on it.