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  Crawler-Transporter Receives New Roller Bearing Assemblies

  April 2, 2013 — For more than a year, NASA's crawler-transporter (CT) 2 has been undergoing a major tuneup in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Recent work has included preparations to ... > full story
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  Saturn Is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests; Moons and Rings Date Back to Solar System's Birth

  March 27, 2013 — A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth. Though they are tinted on ... > full story
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  NASA Turns Up the Heat on Construction of the Space Launch System

  March 27, 2013 — Welding engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have had an extremely busy winter assembling adapters that will connect the Orion spacecraft to a Delta IV rocket for the ... > full story
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  Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

  March 26, 2013 — When the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission begins its journey to the Red Planet in 2013, it will carry a sensitive magnetic-field instrument built and tested by a team at NASA's ... > full story
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  SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Cargo Ready for Return to Earth

  March 26, 2013 — More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for ... > full story
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  LRO's LAMP Ultraviolet Spectrograph Observes Mercury and Hydrogen in GRAIL Impact Plumes

  March 26, 2013 — When NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft made their final descent for impact onto the Moon's surface last December, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's sophisticated payload was in position to observe the ... > full story
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  Moon and Asteroids Share History, NASA Scientists Find

  March 25, 2013 — NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with large asteroids roaming our solar ... > full story
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  SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Cargo Ready for Return to Earth

  March 24, 2013 — More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for ... > full story
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  Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in April

  March 20, 2013 — The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. Mars will be passing almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective. ... > full story
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  Mars Curiosity Rover Exits 'Safe Mode'

  March 20, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby status, "safe ... > full story

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