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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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  NASA Provides a Super-Speed Look at Webb Telescope Progress

  March 27, 2013 — NASA released a new sped-up, 32-second video that shows engineers working on some of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight components to integrate them together to ensure they will work perfectly ... > 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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  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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  NASA's Kennedy Space Center Operations Helps Launch Pad of the Future Take Shape

  March 22, 2013 — The launch pad of the future is taking shape at NASA's Kennedy Space Center as the Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) Program office, along with Center Operations, continues with ... > full story
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  Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET

  March 19, 2013 — A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was ... > full story
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  NASA's Webb Telescope Gets Its Wings

  March 18, 2013 — A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion with the recent assembly of ... > full story
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  NASA's First Laser Communication System Integrated, Ready for Launch

  March 14, 2013 — A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications similar in capability to high-speed fiber optic networks on ... > full story
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  Particles and Fields Package Integrated on Upcoming Mars-Bound Spacecraft

  March 14, 2013 — The six science instruments that comprise the Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars have been integrated aboard NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ... > full story
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  Blue Bursts of Hot Young Stars Captured by Hubble

  March 11, 2013 — A new Hubble image, speckled with blue, white and yellow light, shows part of the spiral galaxy IC 5052. Surrounded in the image by foreground stars in our own galaxy, and distant galaxies beyond, it ... > full story

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