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Lights, Camera, MAVEN: A Mission to Uncover the History of Mars – spacedaily.com Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2014 A planet’s atmosphere can up and disappear. Now a satellite is approaching Mars to tell us how. The satellite is MAVEN: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN). As NASA’s first spacecraft devoted to exploring the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere, MAVEN ...

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Colonizing Mars Contest for National University Students Launched by the Venezuela Node of The Millennium Project

Colonizing Mars Contest for National University Students Launched...

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Fallen NASA astronauts remembered on Space Coast’s most somber 7 days

Fallen NASA astronauts remembered on Space Coast's most somber 7 days

Fallen NASA astronauts remembered on Space Coast's most somber 7 days

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NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown

NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2014 Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus in November. Rosetta was reactivated Jan. 20 after a record 957 ...

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Black Hole Powers ‘Cosmic Flashlight’ Illuminating the Cosmic Web

Black Hole Powers ‘Cosmic Flashlight’ Illuminating the Cosmic Web Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 Cosmologists believe that matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures known as the cosmic web. The vast majority of atoms in the Universe reside in this web as primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang. ...

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Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research

Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that ...

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James Webb Space Telescope Passes a Mission Milestone

James Webb Space Telescope Passes a Mission Milestone Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014 – a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope’s power, communications and pointing control systems. “This is the last major element-level critical design review of the program,” said Richard Lynch, ...

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‘Goodnight, humans’: Says Yutu As The Sun Sets

‘Goodnight, humans’: Says Yutu As The Sun Sets Beijing (AFP) Jan 27, 2014 Chinese Internet users flooded the country’s social media networks on Monday with condolences for the troubled Jade Rabbit moon rover, which experienced a “mechanical control abnormality” over the weekend. State-run media reported on Saturday that the country’s first moon rover had run into trouble due to “the ...

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British astronaut says space travel vital to survival of human race

British astronaut says space travel vital to survival of human race London (UPI) Jan 24, 2013 A British astronaut preparing to go into space next year says space travel and learning to work and live in space is vital to the survival of humanity. Tim Peake, due to spend 6 months on the International Space Station beginning in late 2015, ...

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Aging ISS a space lab of ‘unlimited’ opportunity

Aging ISS a space lab of ‘unlimited’ opportunity Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2014 It may be 350 kilometers (215 miles) above Earth and a place that only a privileged few will ever visit, but the International Space Station is crucial to advances in science, health and technology, experts say. Earlier this month, NASA said the life of the $100 billion ...

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Milky Way shaken… and stirred

Milky Way shaken… and stirred Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 A team of scientists headed by Ivan Minchev from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has found a way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our galaxy, the Milky Way, to a new level of detail. The investigation of a data set of stars near the sun was ...

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NASA Spacecraft Take Aim At Nearby Supernova

NASA Spacecraft Take Aim At Nearby Supernova Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 An exceptionally close stellar explosion discovered on Jan. 21 has become the focus of observatories around and above the globe, including several NASA spacecraft. The blast, designated SN 2014J, occurred in the galaxy M82 and lies only about 12 million light-years away. This makes it the nearest ...

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Hubble, Hubble, Seeing Double

Hubble, Hubble, Seeing Double Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 In this new Hubble image two objects are clearly visible, shining brightly. When they were first discovered in 1979, they were thought to be separate objects – however, astronomers soon realized that these twins are a little too identical! They are close together, lie at the same distance from us, ...

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Space Coast marks Challenger anniversary

Brevard-Online.com

Twenty-eight years ago the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral and on Tuesday, the seven astronauts on board were remembered on the coast.

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SNC Announces First Orbital Flight of Dream Chaser

SNC Announces First Orbital Flight of Dream Chaser- Brevard-Online.com

SNC Announces First Orbital Flight of Dream Chaser- Brevard-Online.com

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