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  NASA Announces Next Steps in Effort to Launch Americans from U.S. Soil

  August 3, 2012 — NASA has announced new agreements with three American commercial companies to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S. ... > full story
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  Lower Hybrid Drift Waves in Earth's Magnetosphere Investigated

  August 1, 2012 — Scientists have detected and characterized lower hybrid drift waves, a special kind of plasma waves that develop in thin boundaries both in space and in the laboratory. The measurement of fundamental ... > full story

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  Dramatic Landing on Mars Planned

  July 25, 2012 — NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is set to deliver the largest planetary rover ever flown onto the Red Planet’s surface early in the morning of 6 ... > full story
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  Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn

  July 19, 2012 — Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year's storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at the planet, with bluish spots in the ... > full story
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  Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn: Atmospheric Changes on Saturn's Moon

  July 11, 2012 — Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's ... > full story
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  Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies

  July 10, 2012 — Astronomers are studying some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. These galaxies are fossils of the early Universe: They have barely changed for 13 billion years. The ... > full story
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  Dust Today, Gone Tomorrow: Astronomers Discover Houdini-Like Vanishing Act in Space

  July 5, 2012 — Astronomers report a baffling discovery never seen before: An extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star has mysteriously disappeared. "It's as if the rings around Saturn had disappeared," ... > full story
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  One Step Closer to Robotic Refueling Demonstrations on Space Station

  July 3, 2012 — NASA completed another successful round of Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools, leaving the RRM module poised ... > full story
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  Hubble Views Globular Cluster M10

  June 25, 2012 — Like many of the most famous objects in the sky, globular cluster Messier 10 was of little interest to its discoverer. Charles Messier, the 18th century French astronomer, cataloged over 100 galaxies ... > full story
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  Lichen Can Survive in Space: Space Station Research Sheds Light on Origin of Life; Potential for Better Sunscreens

  June 23, 2012 — You can freeze it, thaw it, vacuum dry it and expose it to radiation, but still life survives. Research on the International Space Station is giving credibility to theories that life came from outer ... > full story

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