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Curiosity fires off 100,000th laser shot on Mars
NASA's trigger-happy Curiosity rover has fired its 100,000th laser shot on Mars, a science milestone in its mission to determine what rocks on the Red Planet are made of, NASA announced Thursday.
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The Best, Most Stunning, Jaw-Dropping Space Station Time-Lapses of All Time, Ever
We live in an age of space-image abundance. Sure, NASA may not be able to continue running its existing missions, but, guys, we have more space photos and videos than we know what to do with.
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NASA unveils 6-foot 'superhero robot' Valkyrie
Designed to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, this "female" robot could be the precursor to robo-astronauts that will help colonize Mars.
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Cooling pump fails on International Space Station; six-man crew OK
NASA scaled back operations on the International Space Station on Wednesday after discovering a problem with a cooling system.
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NASA's Orion Spacecraft Heads Cross Country
A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft gears up to take a long road trip. Starting from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., the mockup will take a four-week journey across the nation to Naval Base San Diego in California. There, the test article will be used to support NASA’s Underway Recovery Test in February 2014. The test will simulate the recovery of Orion during its first mission, Exploration Flight Test – 1 (EFT-1), scheduled for September 2014.
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Chemical Surprise Found in Crab Nebula
Astronomers have discovered a rare chemical pairing in the remains of an exploded star, called the Crab nebula. A gas thought to be a loner has made a "friend," linking up with a chemical partner to form a molecule. The discovery, made with the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions, will help scientists better understand supernovas, the violent deaths of massive stars.
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NASA picks SpaceX to lease idled shuttle launch pad
NASA will turn over one of its mothballed space-shuttle launch pads to privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which intends to set up a second site in Florida for its Falcon rockets, officials said on Friday.
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The Moon Belongs to No One, but What About Its Artifacts?
In 1969, the third man to walk on the moon, astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr., also became the first lunar archaeologist. As part of the Apollo 12 crew, he examined an earlier robotic lander, Surveyor 3, and retrieved its TV camera, aluminum tubing and other hardware, giving NASA scientists back on Earth the evidence they needed to study how human-made materials fared in the lunar environment.
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China’s problem with smog, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite
To better illustrate the scale of China’s smog problem, NASA has captured an image of China’s northeastern seaboard — in the image above (a larger version is embedded below), the telltale gray haze of hazardous airborne pollution spans the 750 miles (1200 km) between Beijing and Shanghai.
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Orbital-1 Mission Preps for Launch
An Orbital Science Corporation Antares rocket is seen on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2013 as it is rolled out to launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, VA. The Antares is scheduled to launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19.
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Sculpture on the moon: Paul van Hoeydonck`s Fallen Astronaut.
Scandals and conflicts obscured one of the most extraordinary achievements of the Space Age.
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Solar Dynamics Observatory Shows Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths
This still image was taken from a new NASA movie of the sun based on data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, showing the wide range of wavelengths – invisible to the naked eye – that the telescope can view. SDO converts the wavelengths into an image humans can see, and the light is colorized into a rainbow of colors.
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Goldstone's Antenna Tracks Spacecraft
Late night in the desert: Goldstone's 230-foot (70-meter) antenna tracks spacecraft day and night. This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012.
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Mars Curiosity rover transforms into an official Lego model
Hitting shops on January 1, the miniature block version of the fearless rover comes with 6-wheel suspension, a robotic arm, and even tiny plastic Martian rocks. Read this article by Dara Kerr on CNET News.
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Earthrise: How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo in Space History
On Dec. 24, 1968—45 years ago this week—by what is essentially coincidence and fast thinking, one of the most iconic photographs in human history was taken: Earthrise over the Moon. It occurred during Apollo 8 as astronauts Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, and Frank Borman were orbiting the Moon—the first humans...
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Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' : DNews
Despite assurances that holes in the Mars rover's wheels are expected, there seems to be increasing concern for the their worsening condition after the one-ton robot rolled over some craggy terrain. Continue reading →
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Jewel Box Sun
This video of the sun based on data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shows the wide range of wavelengths -- invisible to the naked eye -- that the telescope can view. SDO converts the wavelengths into an image humans can see, and the light is colorized into a rainbow of colors.
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Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump
Two NASA astronauts, working more quickly than expected, completed a spacewalk on Saturday in which they took the first steps to repair a malfunctioning pump module that is part of the cooling system for the International Space Station.
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This Spacecraft Fairytale Will Make Anyone Excited About Outer Space
Rosetta is traveling to unknown lands. Her voyage has gone on nearly a decade. With her lander Philae, she's mankind's most intrepid explorer, headed for a mysterious destination called Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's not a fictitious fairytale. It's science.
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Relive Man's First Launch to the Moon, 45 Years Ago Today
On December 21st, 1968, three men left earth and became the first humans to orbit the moon. Their entire journey was legendary, and even 45 years later watching Apollo 8 launch is almost heart-stopping.
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