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Amazing New View of the Mt. Everest of Vesta
[/caption] NASA has just released an amazing new view of the mysterious south pole of Vesta that offers an oblique…
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Behind The Scenes: United Launch Alliance’s Horizontal Integration Facility
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – While the Horizontal Integration Facility or HIF might sound similar to the Vertical Integration Facility…
A Rover’s 3-Year Drive Across Mars
Here's a look at the Opportunity rover's three-year trek across 20 km (13 miles) of Meridiani Planum on Mars, using…
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Book Review: The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane
[/caption] The space shuttle program is over. The orbiters are being decommissioned, stripped of the components that allowed them to…
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Behind the Scenes: Curiosity’s Rocket Prepared at Vertical Integration Facility
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- One of the more dramatic buildings operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA) at Kennedy Space…
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Assembling Curiosity’s Rocket to Mars
[/caption] Assembly of the powerful Atlas V booster that will rocket NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover to Mars is…
Lost in Translation: Cyrillic, Semantics and SpaceX
[/caption] Matters of space flight are no different than other international issues. What is said (or not said as the…
LROC “Treasure Map” Reveals Titanium Deposits
[/caption] At a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences,…
Encapsulating Curiosity for Martian Flight Test
[/caption] With just over 6 weeks to go until the liftoff of Curiosity - NASA’s next Mars rover - prelaunch…
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In Focus: Aerospace Photojournalist Mike Killian
[/caption]CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – The photographers that cover the events that take place in and around Florida’s Space Coast come…