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  • Engineers surround and align the instrument deck, as it is lowered down and joined to the spacecraft deck.

    Building Four Spacecraft for One Mission

    01.31.13 - An unprecedented mission is being built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The center is simultaneously building four identical spacecraft for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission due to launch in late 2014.

  • An artist's concept showing the International Space Station RapidScat instrument against the ISS. (NASA JPL/Caltech)

    Space Station to Scan The Globe For Weather Data

    01.29.13 - ISS-RapidScat will launch to the space station in 2014 aboard a SpaceX Dragon resupply mission.

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    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 29, 2013

    01.29.13 - The Expedition 34 crew worked with science experiments and research inside the station Tuesday, while ground-commanded robotics continued outside.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
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    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 28, 2013

    01.28.13 - The Expedition 34 crew performed spacesuit maintenance and worked with science inside the station Monday, while robotics took place outside.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Curiosity's drill in place for load testing

    Curiosity Maneuver Prepares for Drilling

    01.28.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of four locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation for using the drill in coming days.

  • Andromeda galaxy

    Cool, New Views of Andromeda Galaxy

    01.28.13 - Two new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess.

  • Environmental scientist Glenn Sachse details the DISCOVER-AQ air quality survey mission over California's San Joaquin Valley to reporter Tabitha Lipkin of Time Warner Cable News.

    NASA Airborne Science: Studying our Environment

    01.28.13 - News media and social media followers learn about NASA's airborne Earth and environmental science program, briefed on current and upcoming missions.

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  • Fairing encloses spacecraft.

    Kennedy Space Center 2013

    01.25.13 - New year welcomes change and challenges.

  • You see, it looks like a globular cluster, but it's not!

    Hubble Finds Appearances can be Deceptive

    01.25.13 - Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of extremely old stars, and around 150 of them are scattered around our galaxy. This is not one of them.

  • Commander Kevin Ford

    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 25, 2013

    01.25.13 - The Expedition 34 crew focused on experiments and upgrades Friday, wrapping up a busy week of research and robotics aboard the station.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • This artist's rendition of the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science, or OPALS, hardware shows how it will look once attached to the International Space Station. (NASA)

    Better Communication is a 'Gem' on Space Station

    02.25.13 - "OPALS" in space? Well, it's not the gemstones you may be thinking. This "gem" has the potential to change the way data is transmitted from space.

  • The RASOR climbs a large step

    Engineers Building Hard-working Mining Robot

    1.25.13 - NASA engineers designed a robot intended to dig soil 16 hours a day for five years.

  • The second of two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on Jan. 23, 2013.

    Sun Shoots Out 2 Coronal Mass Ejections

    01.24.13 - One of the two slow-moving ejections from Jan. 23 is Earth-directed. In the past, CMEs of this speed have not caused substantial geomagnetic storms.

  • MMS observatories in a clean room

    Working on Four Spacecraft Simultaneously

    01.24.13 - NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission clean room is buzzing with activity as engineers work on all four observatories at the same time.

  • Chris Hadfield

    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 24, 2013

    01.24.13 - The station crew participated in a variety of science and medical research experiments Thursday, while robotics testing continues outside the complex.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Seasonal changes on Mars

    Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars

    01.24.13 - Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide.

  • A gas generator from an F1 engine is test fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center

    World's Most Powerful Engine Blazes New Path

    01.24.13 - To help develop the nation's future heavy lift rocket, NASA resurrected the mighty F1 -- the world's most powerful rocket engine ever flown.

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  • Lunar Module

    NASA Takes Strides to Launch from U.S. Soil

    01.25.13 - NASA has taken a crucial step toward launching crews to the space station from the U.S. This landmark comes at the 45th anniversary of an essential stage in sending Americans to the moon.

  • Astronaut Chris Hadfield

    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 23, 2013

    01.23.13 - The International Space Station's crew conducts the Spinal Ultrasound investigation while robotics testing continues outside the complex.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • The Hi C recovering team poses for a photo with the payload.

    'Hi-C' Mission Sees Energy in the Sun's Corona

    01.23.13 - NASA optics engineering expertise is allowing solar scientists to see into the sun's corona in unprecedented detail.

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