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Asteroid-Sampling Mission Moves into Development
05.16.13 - NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
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Expedition 36 Update: May 16, 2013
05.16.13 - The International Space Station's Expedition 36 crew conducted science research Thursday and reached out to fans of science fiction as well.
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Cubesat Berth Awarded to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements
05.16.2013 - A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's last frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget.
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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
05.16.13 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity now holds the record for farthest driving by a NASA vehicle on a world away from Earth, passing a mark set by an Apollo astronaut-driven rover.
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The Joint US–Russian One-Year Mission
05.16.13 - An international collaboration evaluates research protocols for candidate investigations during the planned American/Russian one year increment.
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Galaxy's Ring of Fire
05.16.13 - This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
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LDCM Arrives in Final Orbit
05.15.13 - The Landsat Data Continuity Mission offers a look at Earth from space with a crisper view than our eyes alone would be capable of.
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Expedition 36 Update: May 15, 2013
05.15.13 - The Expedition 36 crew members were focused on research and science experiments aboard the station on Wednesday.
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Cassini Shapes First Global Topographic Map of Titan
05.15.13 - Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft to map the highs and lows of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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SNC Dream Chaser Testing Begins at NASA's Dryden, Langley
05.15.13 - SNC's Dream Chaser test flight craft arrived at NASA Dryden to begin tests of its flight and runway landing systems while NASA astronauts will be at Langley to fly simulations of a Dream Chaser approach and landing.
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Webb Undergoes 'Eye Surgery'
05.15.13 - in the Goddard clean room engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Mobile Launcher Readied for SLS
05.15.13 - Upgraded mobile launcher will carry the Space Launch System heavy-lift vehicle to the launch pad.
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NASA Seeks High-Performance Spaceflight Computing Capabilities
05.15.13 - NASA and the Air Force are requesting research and development proposals to define the type of spacecraft computing needed for future missions.
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NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars
05.15.13 - Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across.
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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth
05.15.13 - Asteroid 1998 QE2 will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles at time of closest approach on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern).
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Three X-class Solar Flares in 24 Hours
05.14.13 - The sun's third significant solar flare in under 24 hours -- and the strongest so far of 2013 -- peaked at 9:11 p.m. EDT on May 13, 2013.
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Station Crew Off Duty Tuesday, Soyuz Lands Monday
05.14.13 - The three Expedition 36 crew members on the station enjoyed some off duty time Tuesday. The Expedition 35 crew landed in Kazakhstan Monday.
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Entrepreneur Giving Shuttle Truss New Uses
05.13.13 - Former shuttle engineer designing solar arrays, mobile cellphone towers using shuttle processing truss.
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Mahasen (Northern Indian Ocean)
05.17.13 - NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen’s rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16.
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Satellites See Double Jeopardy for SoCal Fire Season
05.13.13 - New insights into two factors that are creating a potentially volatile Southern California wildfire season come from an ongoing project using NASA and Indian satellite data by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; and Chapman University, Orange, Calif.