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NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
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Enloe Magnet High School students in Raleigh, N.C., made a long distance call Friday to astronaut Michael Fincke aboard the International Space Station, more than 200 miles above Earth.
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NASA's newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review Thursday at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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NASA's first spacecraft
dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force
Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations.
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The gamma-ray-only pulsar lies within a supernova remnant known as CTA
1, which is located about 4,600 light-years away in the constellation
Cepheus.
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Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky.
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NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane.
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Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the aurora borealis, called the Northern Lights.
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A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state.
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A NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars.
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NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of
examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
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Students from all over the world will gather to participate in the Odyssey of the Mind's 29th
World Finals, a creative problem-solving competition, at the University of Maryland.
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NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale announced Wednesday the launch of NASA Education TV (NASA eTV), a partnership with the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) to produce new educational television programs for distribution on NASA Television and the Internet.
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NASA has designated the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to fly aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy rocket.
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Entekhabi to lead science team for NASA satellite mission
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NASA Deputy Administrator
Shana Dale and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist discussed Friday how space exploration gives Floridians a more competitive economy and better quality of life during a NASA Future Forum at the University of Miami.
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With the successful liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis, The Boeing Company and NASA are starting off 2008 with renewed focus following three successful missions last year for the shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) programs.
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NASA announced a $17.6 billion budget for fiscal year 2009 to continue exploring the solar system, building the International Space Station, studying Earth from space and conducting aeronautics research.
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It has been 35 years since humans last walked on the moon, but there has been much recent discussion about returning, either for exploration or to stage a mission to Mars.
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An MIT-led team of planetary scientists has found that the southern pole of Mars contains the largest deposit of frozen water in the inner solar system, outside of Earth.
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