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  NASA'S Space Launch System Core Stage Passes Major Milestone, Ready to Start Construction

  December 28, 2012 — The team designing America's new flagship rocket has completed successfully a major technical review of the vehicle's core stage. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will take the agency's Orion ... > full story
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  Powerful New Tool Is Quantum Analog of Phase Space Flow

  December 26, 2012 — Physicists have found that a new powerful tool they call 'Wigner flow' is the quantum analog of phase space flow. Wigner flow provides information for quantum dynamics similar to that gleaned from ... > full story
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  NASA Puts Orion Backup Parachutes to the Test

  December 20, 2012 — NASA completed the latest in a series of parachute tests for its Orion spacecraft Thursday at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona, marking another step toward a first flight ... > full story
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  Canadian Experiment to Track Space Radiation and Its Risks

  December 20, 2012 — Space can be a potentially hazardous environment to live and work in, especially when it comes to radiation. Originating from violent storms on the Sun and galactic cosmic rays produced in distant ... > full story
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  Saturn Mission: Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks

  December 20, 2012 — For seven years, a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably investigated weather patterns swirling around Saturn; the hydrocarbon composition of the surface of Saturn's ... > full story
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  Eighth Landsat Satellite Arrives at Launch Site

  December 20, 2012 — An oversized semi-trailer truck carrying NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for launch. This NASA and U.S. ... > full story
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  From Cassini for the Holidays: Backlit View of Saturn and Its Rings

  December 18, 2012 — Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its ... > full story
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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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  More Than 400 Rockets Soar from Sandia’s Kauai Test Facility in 50-Year History

  December 17, 2012 — A white-orange oval, the rocket moves slowly, silently across the night sky, followed by a metallic roar that fades away the farther it flies from its launch pad at Sandia National Laboratories' ... > full story

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