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The Day Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet
04.30.13 - NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite...
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Expedition 35 Update: April 30, 2013
04.30.13 - The Expedition 35 crew continues its focus on international science promoting advances in space technology and down-to-Earth technology.
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Ground Measurement Campaign to Help Predict Floods
04.30.13 - NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission begins collecting ground data in northeastern Iowa that will evaluate how well satellite rainfall data can be used for flood forecasting.
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SLC-17's Twin Launch Pads Bridge Space Age
05.01.13 - Space Launch Complex-17 is a unique bridge between generations of rocket engineers. Some of NASA's earliest missions began on the twin launch pads, along with many of the agency's latest technological achievements.
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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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Plastic Wrap Removed from Shuttle Atlantis
04.29.13 - Construction crews removed plastic shrink-wrap from the shuttle Atlantis as work continues for the spacecraft's new $100 million home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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Expedition 35 Update: April 29, 2013
04.29.13 - The station raised its orbit Sunday for an upcoming crew change while the crew focused on international science and maintenance.
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Why LADEE Matters
04.29.2013 - LADEE's observations of the lunar atmosphere and surface conditions will provide us with insights we can apply to many worlds.
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IceBridge Finishing Up Successful Arctic Campaign
04.29.13 - IceBridge scientists begin another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first of a series of science flights from Greenland on Wednesday.
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Opportunity Exits Standby, Back at Work
04.29.13 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has exited a standby mode and is now executing a sequence of commands sent by the rover team.
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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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NASA, NSBRI Select 23 Proposals To Support Crew Health
04.29.13 - NASA and NSBRI have selected 23 research proposals to support crew health and performance in space exploration missions.
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NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane
04.29.13 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
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Hubble’s View of a Changing Fan
04.26.13 - PV Cep is a favorite target for amateur astronomers because the fan-shaped nebulosity, known as GM 1-29 or Gyulbudaghian’s Nebula, changes over a timescale of months.
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Expedition 35 Update: April 26, 2013
04.26.13 - The ISS Progress 51 cargo craft completed a two-day journey to the station when it arrived at the Zvezda service module on Friday at 8:25 a.m. EDT.
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Jennifer Wiseman Discusses Hubble Telescope
04.25.13 - Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for Hubble, discusses the history and the status of the pioneering space telescope.
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Curiosity Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy
04.25.13 - The team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor.
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Shuttle Artifacts on Trek to Inspire
04.25.13 - Six large space shuttle artifacts are headed to the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum at Keystone Heights Airport in Florida to educate and inspire a new generation of explorers.
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Expedition 35 Update: April 25, 2013
04.25.13 - The ISS Progress 51 cargo craft is set for docking at 8:26 a.m. EDT on Friday. The station crew worked with robotics and spacesuits on Thursday.
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The Sun Sends Two CMEs Toward Mercury
04.25.13 - On the night of April 24 and the morning of April 25, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar phenomena that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space.