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This Month in Exploration

Visit every month to find out how aviation and space exploration have improved life for humans on Earth and in space.

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NASA Missions in History

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Featured Missions

The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft.

Commercial Space Transportation

NASA is shepherding efforts in the private sector to develop safe, affordable and reliable space transportation systems.

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Artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory

Landing in August 2012, the rover will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still, an environment able to support microbial life.

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A precision formation-flying technique, the twin GRAIL spacecraft.

GRAIL, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory

The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission will create the most accurate gravitational map of the moon to date.

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ISS031-S-002 -- Expedition 31 crew

Expedition 31

Learn more about the International Space Station and the current Expedition 31 crew.

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Artist's concept of the NuSTAR spacecraft

NuSTAR

NuSTAR will search for black holes, map supernova explosions, and study the most extreme active galaxies.

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