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Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge Prize Awarded
06.08.13 - Team Survey of Los Angeles was awarded $5,000 after successfully completing Level 1 of the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge.
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Paving the Way for NASA SLS RS-25 Testing
06.06.13 - NASA plans to begin testing RS-25 engines for its new Space Launch System (SLS) in the fall of 2014.
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Red-Hot Robots: Sample Return Robot Challenge Continues
06.06.13 - Robots continue their quest for a $1.5 million prize purse in NASA's Sample Return Robot Challenge in Worcester, Mass.
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Chat: Meteor Shower Needs Citizen Scientists
06.10.13 - On the evening of June 10-11, Dr. Bill Cooke answered questions about a possible new meteor shower, the gamma Delphinids.
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SLS Boosters Centered on Qualification Test
06.03.13 - The center aft segment for qualification motor 1 was transported May 29 to its test area at the ATK facility in Promontory, Utah.
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NASA Chat: Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth
05.30.13 - On the evening of May 30, NASA expert Bill Cooke answered your questions about asteroid 1998 QE2.
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A Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars
05.23.13 - Data from Chandra and other satellites shows that exotic magnetars may be more diverse, and common, than previously thought.
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Adapter 'Flips' for 2014 Exploration Flight Test
05.22.13 - NASA engineers recently flipped a 1,000-pound adapter to prepare for Exploration Flight Test 1 in 2014 and Space Launch System flight in 2017.
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A-1 Test Stand: First Full Engine in Nearly a Decade
05.14.13 - Engineers have installed J-2X engine E10002 in the A-1 test stand at Stennis Space Center -- the first full engine installed in almost a decade.
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Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies
04.30.13 - Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies.
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Preparing for SLS Core Stage Testing
04.29.13 - Before NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at Stennis Space Center.
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Winners Announced! 2013 NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
04.27.13 - NASA has declared the winners of the 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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Hot Fire Tests Steer Space Launch System Engines
04.22.13 - NASA has completed one chapter of next-generation rocket testing on the A-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center.
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Catch a Glimpse of the 2013 Lyrids
04.22.12 - On the night of April 22-23, you can watch for Lyrid meteors via a live Ustream view of the skies over Marshall Space Flight Center.
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X-Ray View of A Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry
04.17.13 - A new image of SN 1006 from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals this supernova remnant in exquisite detail.
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Space Launch System Begins Acoustic Testing
04.15.13 - NASA test conductors are making progress on the agency's new rocket by listening closely to the roar of four thrusters.
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Registration Opens for Night Rover Challenge
04.04.13 - Registration is open for teams seeking to compete in the $1.5 million energy storage competition known as the Night Rover Challenge.
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Under the 'Wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud
04.03.13 - Chandra looks under the "wing" of the dwarf galaxy Small Magellanic Cloud to study the life cycle of stars and the gas lying in between them.
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NASA Turns Up the Heat on SLS Construction
03.26.13 - NASA engineers have had a busy winter assembling adapters that will assist with the initial test flight of Orion in 2014.
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