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  Scientists Prepare for Coming ATTREX Climate Study

  November 9, 2011 — A consortium of scientists are in the early stages of preparation for a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause ... > full story
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  Aerial Robot System Can Save Firefighter Lives, Study Suggests

  November 9, 2011 — A new system built around an unmanned aerial vehicle has faced a real-world test in a West Virginia controlled forest burn, and proved its ... > full story
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  NASA Proposes Orion Spacecraft Test Flight In 2014; Agency Moves to Implement Deep Space Exploration Plan

  November 8, 2011 — NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multi-purpose crew vehicle's design, development, test and ... > full story
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  NASA Develops Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands

  November 8, 2011 — NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it -- a development that promises to open ... > full story
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  Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set

  November 6, 2011 — NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received today ... > full story
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  Volunteers End Simulated Mission to Mars

  November 6, 2011 — The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500's six brave volunteers stepped out of their 'spacecraft' Nov. 4, 2011 to be welcomed by the waiting ... > full story
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  NASA Airborne Mission Maps Remote, Deteriorating Glaciers

  November 3, 2011 — NASA's airborne expedition over Antarctica this October and November has measured the change in glaciers vital to sea level rise projections and mapped others rarely traversed by ... > full story
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  NASA Robotic Lander Test Flight Nov. 4 Will Aid in Future Lander Designs

  November 3, 2011 — NASA will conduct a 100-foot robotic lander altitude test flight Friday, Nov. 4, to mature the technology needed to develop a new generation of small, smart, versatile robotic landers capable of ... > full story
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  Scientists Race Against Time to Save the Last ‘Flying Pencil’, WWII Bomber

  November 3, 2011 — Scientists are in a race against time to help save the last remaining intact World War II German light bomber Dornier Do-17, known as The Flying Pencil (Fliegender Bleistift), which lies underwater ... > full story
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  Watching the Birth of an Iceberg

  November 2, 2011 — After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA's Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever ... > full story

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