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  Marks on Martian Dunes May Be Tracks of Dry-Ice Sleds

  June 11, 2013 — NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go. Researchers ... > full story
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  Moon Radiation Findings May Reduce Health Risks to Astronauts

  June 11, 2013 — Space scientists report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts ... > full story
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  Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon

  June 7, 2013 — Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. The ... > full story
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  Cassini Sees Precursors to Aerosol Haze on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan

  June 6, 2013 — Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have confirmed the presence of a population of complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, that later evolve ... > full story
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  NASA's Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure

  June 6, 2013 — After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASA's Orion crew module successfully passed its static loads tests on ... > full story
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  Exposure to Rocket Attacks in Israel Increases Adolescent Violence

  June 4, 2013 — A study followed 362 Israeli adolescents from the southwestern Negev from 2008 to 2011, and conducted annual assessments of exposure to rocket attacks, symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as ... > full story
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  Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones

  June 1, 2013 — The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance ... > full story
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  Engineers Develop Skills for Future Flight Systems at 'Rocket U'

  June 1, 2013 — As NASA plans for future spaceflight programs to low-Earth orbit and beyond, teams of engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are gaining flight systems experience in designing and launching ... > full story
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  NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Team Assembles Final Observatory

  May 30, 2013 — On May 20, 2013, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reached an unprecedented milestone. The team mated the instrument and ... > full story
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  Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions

  May 30, 2013 — Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human ... > full story

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