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  Shining a Light on Cool Pools of Gas in the Galaxy

  June 11, 2013 — Newly formed stars shine brightly, practically crying out, "Hey, look at me!" But not everything in our Milky Way galaxy is easy to see. The bulk of material between the stars in the galaxy -- the ... > 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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  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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  Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets

  June 3, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and ... > 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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  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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  New Mathematical Model Links Space-Time Theories

  May 30, 2013 — Researchers have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our ... > full story
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  Weightlessness of Space Used to Design Better Materials for Earth

  May 29, 2013 — Scientists are using the weightlessness of space to design stronger materials here on ... > full story
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  NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-Ray Navigation Technologies

  May 20, 2013 — Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as ... > full story

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