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  NASA Turns Up the Heat on Construction of the Space Launch System

  March 27, 2013 — Welding engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have had an extremely busy winter assembling adapters that will connect the Orion spacecraft to a Delta IV rocket for the ... > full story
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  NASA Provides a Super-Speed Look at Webb Telescope Progress

  March 27, 2013 — NASA released a new sped-up, 32-second video that shows engineers working on some of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight components to integrate them together to ensure they will work perfectly ... > full story
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  SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Cargo Ready for Return to Earth

  March 26, 2013 — More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for ... > full story
• Insects (including Butterflies)
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  Mathematical Butterflies Provide Insight Into How Insects Fly

  March 25, 2013 — Researchers have developed sophisticated numerical simulations of a butterfly's forward ... > full story
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  SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Cargo Ready for Return to Earth

  March 24, 2013 — More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for ... > full story
• Earth Science
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  First Images Released from Newest Earth Observation Satellite

  March 21, 2013 — NASA and the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which was launched Feb. ... > full story
• Energy and the Environment
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  Transportation Study Reveals Potential for Deep Cuts to Petroleum Use and Carbon Emissions

  March 19, 2013 — Scientists have completed an assessment of avenues to reach deep cuts in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation ... > full story
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  NASA's Webb Telescope Gets Its Wings

  March 18, 2013 — A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion with the recent assembly of ... > full story
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  NASA's First Laser Communication System Integrated, Ready for Launch

  March 14, 2013 — A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications similar in capability to high-speed fiber optic networks on ... > full story
• Jupiter
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  'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter

  March 14, 2013 — In the swirling canopy of Jupiter's atmosphere, cloudless patches are so exceptional that the big ones get the special name "hot spots." Exactly how these clearings form and why they're only found ... > full story

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