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Asteroid Exploration Field Tests Performed In The Mojave Desert
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... on a steep boulder slope at Asteroid Hill, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California. 15 April 2013. Credit: NASA The potential of a human mission to Mars has captured the imagination of many recently. However, before astronauts set foot on ... Comment?
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Mars Opportunity Rover Examines Rock With Unique Composition
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Image Caption: The pale rock in the upper center of this image, about the size of a human forearm, includes a target called "Esperance," which was inspected by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Comment?
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Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on Moon
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A 40-kilogram space rock has slammed into the Moon at about 90,000 kilometres per hour, creating a bright flash of light as it exploded with a force of five tonnes of TNT, according to NASA. Comment?
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Volvo app makes fantasy a reality
... and brakes. A MASSIVE explosion from a meteor which crashed into the Moon was visible to the naked eye on Earth, NASA says. A MASSIVE asteroid nine times bigger than a cruise liner is heading to Earth. It'll be here on June 1. Don't panic, it won't ... Comment?
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... Sciences, are the vanguard of a burgeoning commercial space industry that is coming of age in the wake of changes at NASA. Georgia is ideally situated, in terms of both geography and infrastructure, to locate a commercial spaceport. Our southern ... Comment?
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UA's OSIRIS-REx Space Mission Gets Green Light
... giving the team the authority to proceed toward launch in 2016. "This means we have now made the final deal with NASA in terms of the mission objective, the cost cap and the schedule all the way from development and launch through Earth return," ... Comment?
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Nine-year-old Mars rover passes 40-year-old record
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That was the farthest total distance for any NASA vehicle driving on a world other than Earth until yesterday. Comment?
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Requiem for the World's Greatest Planet Hunter
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After more than four years in space, restlessly searching for planets orbiting other stars, NASA's Kepler space telescope may have met its demise. Comment?
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Virgin Galactic Has Hired Its Pilots
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A retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and a former NASA space shuttle commander have been hired to fly space tourists in Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, the company has announced. Comment?
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Mars Rover Beats 41-Year-Old Apollo Driving...
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It took nine years traveling around the surface of the Red Planet, but NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has finally surpassed a record set by Apollo 17 astronauts over 40 years ago. Comment?
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Astronomers Catch Bright Explosion On The Moon
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Image Caption: NASA's lunar monitoring program has detected hundreds of meteoroid impacts. Comment?
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NASA Moving Forward With Plans To Sample Asteroids
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NASA said it is moving forward with its plan to send a spacecraft to an asteroid to bring back a sample to Earth. Comment?
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NASA Says Ammonia Leak All Plugged Up
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... replace a pump controller box on the International Space Station's far port truss (P6) leaking ammonia coolant. The two NASA astronauts began the 5-hour, 30-minute space walk at 8:44 a.m. Image Credit: NASA According to the Associated Press , NASA ... Comment?
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Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record
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... feet), nudging the total distance traveled since landing on the red planet in 2004 to 35.760 kilometers (22.220 miles). NASA's previous distance record was held by Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt when, in December 1972, they ... Comment?
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Galaxy's 'burning ring of fire' is frenetic region of star formation
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... The galaxy, a spiral beauty called Messier 94, is located about 17 million light-years away. In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, infrared light is represented in different colors, with blue having the shortest wavelengths and red, the ... Comment?
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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to sail past Earth is nine times larger than cruise ship
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... features," said radar astronomer Lance Benner, the principal investigator for the Goldstone radar observations from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Whenever an asteroid approaches this closely, it provides an important ... Comment?
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope breaks
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system. Comment?
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Can A Stanford Professor Revive The Defunct...
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NASA announced yesterday that its Kepler space telescope is stuck in standby mode, but one professor is already coming up with ideas to try and revive the observatory . Comment?
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Scientists shape first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan
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... the usual approach to measuring topography on planetary bodies. Virtually all the data we have on Titan comes from NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft, which has flown past the moon nearly 100 times over the past decade. On many of those ... Comment?
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A nice look at the surface of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Sorry to see this the last targeted flyby of Rhea. Comment?
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