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  Computer Swap on NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity

  February 28, 2013 — The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been ... > full story
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  Crews Rehearse Launch Abort System Stacking With Orion

  February 28, 2013 — Crane operators, technicians and engineers practiced lifting and stacking techniques this week as they moved a 6-ton replica escape rocket called the LAS, for Launch Abort System, from a trailer to ... > full story
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  Second SpaceX Space Station Resupply Flight Ready to Go

  February 25, 2013 — The second International Space Station Commercial Resupply Services flight by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is set for liftoff at 10:10 a.m. EST on March 1 from Space Launch Complex 40 at ... > full story
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  Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder

  February 25, 2013 — Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars. Curiosity science team ... > full story
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  European Space Agency's AIDA Mission Now Has a Target: Asteroid Didymos

  February 22, 2013 — The European Space Agency's proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The recent Russian meteor and, on the same day, our planet's close encounter ... > full story
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  NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission

  February 21, 2013 — NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moons are thought to harbor vast ... > full story
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  NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample

  February 20, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled ... > full story
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  Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle Accelerators

  February 19, 2013 — During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is ... > full story
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  Water on the Moon: It's Been There All Along

  February 18, 2013 — Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to ... > full story
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  NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample

  February 9, 2013 — NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first ... > full story

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