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  NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth

  November 8, 2011 — NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will safely fly past our planet slightly closer ... > 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 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
• Optics
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  NASA Studying Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' a Reality

  November 3, 2011 — Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light -- are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing ... > full story
• Mars
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  Did Life Once Exist Below Red Planet's Surface? NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground

  November 2, 2011 — A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface. A new interpretation of years of mineral-mapping data, from more ... > full story
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  Boeing to Build Commercial Spacecraft at Kennedy, Create 550 Jobs

  November 1, 2011 — The Boeing Co. will set up Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to manufacture and assemble its CST-100 spacecraft for launches to the International Space Station ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  NASA in Final Preparations for Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby

  October 28, 2011 — NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's ... > full story
• Mars
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  Scientists Discover Way to Determine When Water Was Present on Mars and Earth

  October 20, 2011 — The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of scientists who study the mineral here on Earth. ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Orion's Belt Lights Up Cassini's View of Enceladus

  October 19, 2011 — NASA's Cassini mission will take advantage of the position of two of the three stars in Orion's belt when the spacecraft flies by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 19. As the hot, bright stars pass ... > full story

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