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NASA Robots Simulate Lunar Mission
06.12.09 - NASA robots soon will begin exploring the dusty, rocky terrain of a barren desert on Earth much like the moon.
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Astronomers Assess SOFIA Telescope Systems
06.11.09 - Astronomers for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, program recently conducted five nights of telescope testing
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NASA Ames Hosts Screening Event for Launch to the Moon
06.10.09 - Come see a live broadcast of the launch of NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and hear presentations from NASA experts on Wednesday, June 17, 2009.
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NASA Awards Contract for Aerospace Testing Support
06.10.09 - NASA has selected Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., to receive an Aerospace Testing and Facilities Operations and Maintenance, or ATOM, follow-on contract valued at $200 million.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, June 9, 2009
06.09.09 - Kepler is nearing 10 million kilometers from Earth, and will pass that mark on June 12.
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NASA Develops Rehydration Beverage
06.04.09 - To help keep astronauts at peak performance during missions, NASA researched, qualified and patented a highly effective electrolyte concentrate formula.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 29, 2009
05.29.09 - Kepler remains safe and stable in its "drift-away" heliocentric orbit.
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NASA Awards Contract for Airspace Concept System
05.29.09 - NASA has selected the Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass., to receive an Airspace Concept Evaluation System, or ACES, follow-on contract valued at $29 million.
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NASA Flies Probes in ‘Wind Tunnel in the Sky’
05.28.09 - NASA today successfully launched two hypersonic experiments as secondary payloads atop a NASA-built Terrier-Orion two-stage research sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va., at 9:52 a.m. PDT.
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NASA Scientists Find Evidence for Water on a Cold Mars
05.27.09 - NASA scientists modeled freezing conditions on Mars to test whether liquid water could have been present to form the surface features of the martian landscape.
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NASA Outlines Plans for Lunar Exploration Missions
05.21.09 - NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor.
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NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Moon Missions
05.20.09 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, missions to the moon arepreparing for launch. The missions are targeted to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket no earlier than June 17, 2009, at 6:51 p.m. PDT.
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NASA Successfully Launches Nanosatellite
05.19.09 - NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 4:55 p.m. PDT on May 19 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island, Va.
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Lunar Satellite Missions Briefing Scheduled
05.19.09 - News media are invited to participate in a televised news briefing with panelists in Washington D.C. at 1 p.m. PDT on Thursday, May 21, about two upcoming lunar missions scheduled to launch in June that mark the beginning of a journey to better understand the moon.
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NASA Supercomputing Goes Green: Modeling Ocean Climate
05.18.09 - Earth scientists are reaping huge benefits from research performed on NASA's advanced supercomputers.
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Kepler Mission Begins Search
05.13.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets.
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May 8 Launch Attempt Canceled
05.08.09 - NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility decided to cancel the May 8 launch attempt of the Minotaur 1 rocket, PharmaSat’s ride to space.
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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Canceled May 7 Launch
05.07.09 - NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility canceled the May 7 launch attempt of the Minotaur 1 rocket, PharmaSat’s ride to space, because of poor weather conditions.
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NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station
05.07.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA and Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash., released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7.
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NASA Ames to Host Live Broadcast of Shuttle Launch
05.06.09 - News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission on Monday, May 11, 2009 in the Exploration Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.