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Iconic Kennedy Space Center Countdown Clock Retires
Iconic Kennedy Space Center Countdown Clock seen here retires NASA’s 135th and final shuttle mission takes flight on July 8,…
With Philae Delivered, Rosetta Will Play ‘Comet Escort’ Through 2015
With the Philae mission down on the comet and preliminary science results coming from its brief science surge on the…
First Orion Flight Will Assess Radiation Risk As NASA Thinks About Human Mars Missions
If you wanna get humans to Mars, there are so many technical hurdles in the way that it will take…
Thud! Sound Of Philae’s Comet Landing Shows Signs Of Possible Ice
https://soundcloud.com/dlrde/touchdown-philae-on-comet-67p And we have touchdown! This is what the feet of the Philae lander experienced as the spacecraft touched down…
Lunar Mission One Wants To Crowdfund A Robotic Moon Lander
Just hours after announcing that it plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in the next decade, the…
NASA SoundCloud Sounds Aim To Bring Music To The Final Frontier
Fancy having a shuttle launch play as your ringtone? NASA is trying to make that possible through offering several dozen…
Shortly After Mars Comet, NASA’s New Red Planet Spacecraft Officially Starts Mission
NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is "go" for at least a year -- and potentially longer. After taking a time-out from…
No ‘Rubber Duckie’! Rosetta’s Comet Looks Weird In Decade-Old Hubble Model
Okay, let's take a deep breath about Rosetta and remember just how far we've come since the mission arrived at…
OSIRIS-REx: The Audacious Plan To Scoop An Asteroid And Fly Back To Earth
We've been super-excited about the Philae landing recently, the first soft landing on a comet. But imagine if the spacecraft…
Smart Robots Could Build ‘Snow Forts’ On The Moon One Day
The Moon is so close to us, and yet so far. Just last year the Chang'e-3 spacecraft and Yutu rover…