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The autonomous flight occurred earlier this month at the Mojave Air and Space Port about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of Los Angeles. Masten Space Systems’ unmanned rocket named Xombie lifted off the ground, flew horizontally and landed at a pad 164...
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Several of his stories touch upon this fact, whether it's a ribald comment made by fellow Star Trek cast member George Takei at Shatner's Comedy Central roast to Shatner's interactions with NASA and the space program. However, the actor doesn't provide...
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Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago, as pictured in this NASA handout photo received by Reuters... View Photo »
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What was being done to change the program — to give people confidence that this time we got it right — it all culminated when NASA got its budget passed ... The budget that we received in 2012 was the budget that was needed for the re-plan.
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The current spacewalk, which started at 06.31 p.m. with a 16-minute delay, is the first for the ISS crew this year. The current ISS crew also includes NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Dan Burbank, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, and European Space...
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Space Station, flying 220 miles above Earth. Ike barreled into the densely populated Texas coast near Houston early September 13, 2008, bringing with it a wall of water and ferocious winds and rain that flooded large areas along the Gulf of Mexico and...
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"It's filled with aliens and heroes and girls with green paint and tiny bikinis - everything I'm interested in," he says. There are other sweet memories, too, like the time he signed the lunar module on a trip to NASA headquarters at the Kennedy Space...
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 image made from video provided by NASA, commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shakes hands with Robonaut aboard the station in orbit around the earth. It's the first handshake ever between a human... View Photo »
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we are now working with NASA to establish a new target launch date, but note that we will continue to test and review data. We will launch when the vehicle is ready
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped the photo on Dec. 10, 2011. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Saturn's two biggest moons hang together in a stunning new photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image shows the heavily cratered Rhea in...
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Media must arrive by 1 p.m. Reporters who would like to cover the event at JPL must arrange access in advance by contacting JPL Media Relations by Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. PST, at 818-354-5011. In addition, valid media credentials are required, and...
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 image made from video provided by NASA, commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shakes hands with Robonaut aboard the station in orbit around the earth. It's the first handshake ever between a human and a humanoid in space. NASA's...
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 7: In this handout photo provided by NASA, a United States Marine Corps helicopter flies past the U.S. Capitol with a full moon lighting the sky on February 7, 2012 from Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. Tonight's moon marks the peak of its waxing.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 7: In this handout photo provided by NASA, a full Moon lights the sky above the U.S. Capitol early in the evening on February 7, 2012 from Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. Tonight's moon marks the peak of its waxing.
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In this photo provided by NASA, a United States Marine Corps helicopter flies over Washington with the full moon and the U.S. Capitol in the background Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, as seen from Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
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In this photo provided by NASA, the full moon rises above the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, as seen from Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
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This undated artist rendering provided by NASA shows NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft. NASA announced Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 that new findings from IBEX reveal the space just outside the solar system looks different than within the solar system.
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The pan-aurora borealis is visible over Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington at night in this NASA handout photo received by Reuters on February 10, 2012.
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This Jan. 29 panorama provided by NASA shows of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, in a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario...
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This north-looking nighttime panorama provided by NASA shows much of the land mass of the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous United States. It was photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station as it was moving over the Gulf of Mexico on...
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The full Moon and the U.S. Capitol are seen early in the evening from Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia in this NASA handout photo taken February 7, 2012.
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A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter is seen flying through this scene of the full Moon and the U.S. Capitol in this NASA handout photo taken from Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia February 7, 2012.
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This image provided by NASA shows a 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's...
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A satellite view of Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA handout photo obtained by Reuters February 6, 2012. Russian scientists are close to drilling in to the prehistoric sub-glacier Lake Vostok, which has been trapped under Antarctic ice for 14 million years.
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A view of the eastern hemisphere of earth from space is shown in this undated NASA handout photo obtained by Reuters February 6, 2012. NASA's second 'Blue Marble' image was created from data acquired by a new instrument aboard the Earth-observing satellite Suomi NPP, the Visible...
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In this enhanced-color image provided by NASA and released Wednesday Jan. 25, 2012 shows sand dunes trapped in an impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars. Dunes and sand ripples of various shapes and sizes display the natural beauty created by physical processes. The area covered in the...
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In this image taken from a NASA web site and shot Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, snow is seen still blanketing much of Washington state when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite captured the image. Clear skies allowed this NASA satellite photo to show the snow...
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This image provided by NASA shows the Aurora Borealis in this nighttime photograph shot from the International Space Station as the orbital outpost flew over the Midwest recently. Cloud cover makes it difficult to identify the cities that are within the captured area. The spacecraft was...
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This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The...
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This colorized NASA image, taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a flare shooting out of the top of the sun. It was taken in a special teal wavelength to best see the flare. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is...
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Saturn and its moon Dione appear in this December 12, 2011 handout image courtesy of NASA. The image was taken in visible green light at approximately 35,000 miles (57,000 kilometers) from Dione with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera.
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Stephanie Stilson, NASA Orbiter Flow Director for Transition and Retirement for the space shuttles watches as the space shuttle Atlantis is moved from the Orbiter Processing Facility into the huge Vertical Assembly Building for work in its decommissioning at the Kennedy Space Center in...
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A night-time view of a western European panorama reveals city lights from Belgium and the Netherlands behind a section of the earth-orbiting International Space Station in this January 22, 2012 handout photo release by NASA January 30, 2012. Britian (L) partially obscured by solar array...
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NASA astronaut Nicole Stott gestures as she addresses members of the Florida House and Senate Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012, on the floor of the House of Representatives during Florida Space Day in Tallahassee, Fla.
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This new image, released by NASA January 10, 2012, shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with NASA contributions, and NASA�s Spitzer Space Telescope. In the instruments' combined data,...
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This artist concept provided by NASA on Tuesday Jan.10,2012 shows the Curiosity rover cruising toward Mars. The spacecraft will adjust its flight path several times as it heads for an August landing in a Martian crater. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL.
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 image made from video provided by NASA, commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shakes hands with Robonaut aboard the station in orbit around the earth. It's the first handshake ever between a human and a humanoid in space. NASA's...
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