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  NASA's Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone Outside Our Solar System

  December 5, 2011 — NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 ... > full story

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  Homegrown Designs Sprout for NASA's Commercial Crew Program

  December 5, 2011 — The expression goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention." And right now there is a need for NASA and the United States to have reliable access to low Earth orbit from homegrown sources. So, NASA's ... > full story
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  Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3-D

  December 1, 2011 — Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and ... > full story
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  NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future

  December 1, 2011 — NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 140-second firing of its onboard rocket motors on Thursday, Nov. 24. The rocket burn was performed to keep the venerable comet hunter's options open for yet ... > full story
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  What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye?

  December 1, 2011 — The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Enceladus ... > full story
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  Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed: Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report

  December 1, 2011 — Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or ... > full story
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  Microscopic Worms Could Hold the Key to Living Life on Mars

  November 29, 2011 — The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonize space. But is the human body up to the challenge? Scientists believe that Caenorhabditis ... > full story
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  Mars Science Laboratory: NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover to Red Planet

  November 26, 2011 — NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an ... > full story
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  NASA Flies Robotic Lander Prototype to New Heights

  November 21, 2011 — NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center's propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in ... > full story
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  Reliable Nuclear Device to Heat, Power Mars Science Lab

  November 21, 2011 — NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source. The rover Curiosity's ... > full story

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