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Astronomers Detect Complex Organics Around Nearby Young Star; Produce Them in Simulated Conditions in the Lab
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Scientists Debate How to Search for Life on Europa in New Mission
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Terrestrial Exoplanets Around Neighboring Star
“Nearly a hundred thousand million stars are turning in the circle of the Milky Way, and long ago other races on the worlds of other Suns must have scaled and passed the heights that we have reached. Think of such civilizations, far back against the fading afterglow of Creation, masters of a Universe so […] More
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NASA Alters Orion Heat Shield for 2018 Flight With Advanced 3-D Thermal Protection Fabric Needed for Destination Mars
BALLY, PA and KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — NASA and Lockheed Martin have decided to change a critical component of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield for its next test flight in 2018 to include an advanced 3-D woven thermal protect system fabric that will help insure maximum safety for our astronauts returning from deep space expeditions […] More
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Kepler Finds ‘Super-Earth’ Exoplanet in First Discovery of New Mission
The Kepler space telescope has found its first new exoplanet, a “super-Earth,” of its secondary mission phase. The discovery adds to a current tally of 996 confirmed exoplanets and 4,183 planetary candidates already found by the revolutionary planet-hunting telescope. More
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NASA’s LADEE Dust Probe Plunges Deliberately Into Lunar Surface
NASA’s newest Moon probe, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), aimed at studying the moon ultra tenuous atmosphere and dust, has deliberately plunged into the lunar surface after successfully completing its science mission. With the probe running low on fuel during an extended bonus mission granted by NASA to collect every last drop […] More
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Google Will Give Historic Moffett Field and Hangar One New Life Through Lease Agreement With NASA
It’s safe to say that just about anyone who has driven on Highway-101 through Mountain View, Calif., at the south end of the San Francisco peninsula close to San Jose, has seen the enormous Hangar One and Moffett Federal Airfield, lying on the edge of the San Francisco Bay looking as if abandoned (from afar, anyway). […] More
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Heat Shield for Orion EFT-1 Spacecraft Arrives at Kennedy for Installation
For nearly 18 months work has continued on NASA’s Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, where the capsule is currently being constructed for its first flight test next year. The test, known as Exploration Flight Test 1, will put Orion in space on a flight profile which will help validate the spacecraft’s flight control system and […] More
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Planets, Planets Everywhere!
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider […] More
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Moon-Bound LADEE Spacecraft Back On Track After Minor Problem
NASA’s $280 million Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission, or LADEE, is well on its way to the Moon after the compact car-size spacecraft encountered a minor problem after launching into the night sky off Virginia’s coastline last Friday. More
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ISS Astronauts Remotely Control Robot on Earth
NASA regularly controls its robot explorers, sent to distant parts of the Solar System, from comfortable offices here on Earth. So it might seem that allowing astronauts in low-Earth orbit to control a robot on the Earth’s surface is not exactly a step forward. But that would be an incorrect assumption. For the first time ever, astronauts […] More
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LADEE Set to Investigate Lunar Atmosphere and Test High-Speed Data Link
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is due for launch in September 2013 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. LADEE will study the composition and structure of the tenuous lunar atmosphere, including dust that may be lofted up from the surface. It will also undertake a demonstration of a laser-mediated communications system. More
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Garvey’s P-18 Rocket Takes Student-Built Payloads to Edge of Space
Who says that students can’t participate in the exploration of space? So far, Garvey Spacecraft Corporation’s Prospector 18, or “P-18,” rocket has conducted four missions where it has launched student-built Nano and Micro satellites. While these payloads don’t reach the altitudes that those launched by Prospector’s larger cousins do, they still climb pretty far into […] More
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Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North’s Growing Seasons
WASHINGTON — Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly improved satellite data sets. More
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