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  NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride

  December 17, 2012 — NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space and a member of the probes' mission ... > full story
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  NASA GRAIL Lunar Twins Begin Their Last Burn

  December 17, 2012 — Ebb and Flow -- the two twin spacecraft of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission -- have begun their final rocket burns. They are scheduled to impact the moon at around 2:28 ... > full story
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  Rocket Burn Sets Stage for Dynamic Moon Duos' Lunar Impact

  December 16, 2012 — The lunar twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have each completed a rocket burn that has sealed their fate. The burns modified the orbit of the formation-flying ... > full story
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  Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth

  December 16, 2012 — Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid ... > full story
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  NASA Probes Prepare for Mission-Ending Moon Impact

  December 13, 2012 — Twin lunar-orbiting NASA spacecraft that have allowed scientists to learn more about the internal structure and composition of the moon are being prepared for their controlled descent and impact on a ... > full story
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  Venus Transit and Lunar Mirror Could Help Astronomers Find Worlds Around Other Stars

  December 13, 2012 — On June 6, 2012, Venus passed directly between Earth and the sun, in a so-called transit where the planet appears as a silhouette against the solar disk, something that will not happen again until ... > full story
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  Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored

  December 6, 2012 — Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest developments, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 ... > full story
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  NASA Twin Spacecraft Create Most Accurate Gravity Map of Moon

  December 5, 2012 — Twin NASA probes orbiting the moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. The new map, created by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, ... > full story
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  Could Astronauts Use a 3-D Printer to Make Parts from Moon Rocks?

  November 28, 2012 — Imagine landing on the moon or Mars, putting rocks through a 3-D printer and making something useful – like a needed wrench or replacement part. "It sounds like science fiction, but now it's ... > full story
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  Robotic Explorers May Usher in Lunar 'Water Rush'

  November 15, 2012 — The American space program stands at the cusp of a "water rush" to the moon by several companies developing robotic prospectors for launch in the near future, according to a NASA scientist ... > full story

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