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NASA’s Daytime Dynamo Experiment Deploys Lithium to Study Global Ionospheric Communications Disruptions
On June 24, 2013 a pair of daytime sounding rockets will launch from NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) and deploy…
New Horizons Spacecraft ‘Stays the Course’ for Pluto System Encounter
Following an intense 18 month study to determine if NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft faced potentially destructive impact hazards during its…
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Spectacular Billion Pixel Panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover
This is a cropped, reduced version of panorama from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution…
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Final Construction Starts for Europe’s 2016 Methane Sniffing Mars Mission
Has life ever existed on Mars? Or anywhere beyond Earth? Answering that question is one of the most profound scientific…
The Epitome of Cool: Neil Armstrong and David Scott, 1966
So, you've just endured a harrowing experience where your orbiting spacecraft has gone wildly out of control. You somehow --…
The Most Unique Eclipse Image You’ll Ever See
You’ve probably never before seen an image like the one above. That’s because it is the first time something like…
Plastic Protection Against Cosmic Rays?
It could work, say researchers from the University of New Hampshire and the Southwest Research Institute. One of the inherent dangers…
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Human Voyages to Mars Pose Higher Cancer Risks
New measurements of the energetic space radiation environment present in interplanetary space taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirm what has…
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Boeing Commercial Space Taxi and Atlas V Launcher Move Closer to Blastoff
The next time that American astronauts launch to space from American soil it will surely be aboard one of the…
What is Your Favorite Chris Hadfield-ism?
During the past five months, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been providing a steady flow of strikingly beautiful images, as…