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Rocket U Engineers Push Aerial Boundaries
10.23.12 - NASA engineers at Kennedy branch out to build and fly unmanned aerial vehicle around Kennedy.
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Scientists Developing Dust Mitigation for Exploration
10.5.12 - One of the challenges in exploring the moon or planets is dust. Scientists in Kennedy's Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory are developing ways to mitigate this problem.
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Engineers Test Rotor Landing for Capsules
10.03.12 - Equipping capsules with rotor blades instead of parachutes would give a returning capsule a softer, more precise landing, engineers said.
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Soil Heat Shield Concept Passes Arc Jet Testing
09.26.12 - Samples of heat shield material made from regolith from other worlds passed stringent testing recently.
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Landing Pads Designed for Extraterrestrial Missions
09.19.12 - NASA scientists and engineers are studying the challenges and hazards involved in landing on extraterrestrial destinations such as the moon or Mars.
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Researchers Look to Alien Soils for Heat Shield
09.12.12 - A concept to make heat shields from the regolith of an asteroid, Mars or the moon faces testing.
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LEDs Used in Plant Growth Experiments
09.11.12 - A group of plant biologists is seeking the answers as it works on one of NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Habitation Projects.
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CSI: NASA
08.22.12 - Failure analysis lab engineers call on technology, smarts and persistance to find out what happened when a launch goes wrong.
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Launch Aborts Challenge Rocket Engineers
01.30.12 - Designing an escape system for the next generation of rockets is a fresh challenge for NASA engineers.