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NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometer
06.05.13 - A NASA team delivered a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past.
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Expedition 36 Update: June 5, 2013
06.05.13 - The European Space Agency's ATV-4 cargo vehicle launched at 5:52 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, beginning a 10-day trip to the station.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Nears Turning Point
06.05.13 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is approaching its biggest turning point since landing its rover, Curiosity, inside Mars' Gale Crater last summer.
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Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among Earliest Stars
06.05.13 - Astronomers has discovered evidence of a significant number of black holes that accompanied the first stars in the universe.
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Goddard Welcomes Summer Interns
06.04.13 - Nearly 400 high school, college and graduate students, as well as educators, began summer internships at Goddard on June 3.
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Officials Meet in Washington to Discuss Solar Storms, Great and Small
06.04.13 - Policy makers and researchers are getting together in Washington to talk about space weather -- but the discussion will be a little different than usual.
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Expedition 36 Update: June 4, 2013
06.04.13 - The station's Expedition 36 crew rearranged cargo Tuesday to prepare for Wednesday's launch of a European space freighter.
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Swamp Works Thrives on New Engineering Approach
06.04.13 - The Swamp Works laboratory at Kennedy embraces the need to experiment and make mistakes to push technologies forward.
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Hubble Maps 3-D Structure of Ejected Material Around Erupting Star
06.04.13 - A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova.
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NASA's IRIS Mission to Launch in June
06.04.13 - Understanding how energy travels through the lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere is the goal of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph scheduled to launch on June 26, 2013.
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SUNRISE Over Sweden: Solar Observatory to Take Flight
06.03.13 - NASA's Scientific Balloon Program successfully launched, for the second time, the largest solar telescope ever to leave ground, to observe the sun's magnetic fields.
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NASA to Host June 5 Teleconference on Curiosity Mars Rover
06.03.13 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 5 to provide an update about the Mars Science Laboratory mission and activities of the Curiosity rover.
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Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity To Hunt For Planets
06.03.13 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
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"Close Shave" Surprises New Station Crew
06.04.13 - When astronaut Chris Cassidy welcomed his new crewmates aboard the station last week, they may have thought they were seeing double.
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Expedition 36 Update: June 3, 2013
06.03.13 - The station crew worked with science, made preparations for the arrival of a European cargo vehicle and continued orientation activities Monday.
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Swift Produces Best UV Maps of Nearest Galaxies
06.03.13 - The new UV surveys are the most detailed ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the Milky Way's closest neighbor galaxies.
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Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones
05.31.13 - The Boeing Company recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
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'Rocket U' Engineers Develop Skills for Future Flight Systems
05.31.13 - Rocket University engineers are developing fast-track projects to imporve skills needed to help design flight systems of the future.
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Weekly Recap From the Expedition Lead Scientist
05.31.13 - Expedition 35 is hard at work 200-plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.
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Hubble Sees the Messy Result of a Galactic Collision
05.31.13 - This new Hubble image captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies — a spiral galaxy is in the process of colliding with a lenticular galaxy.