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  Cassini Returns Images of Battered Saturn's Moon Rhea

  March 11, 2013 — Following its last close flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these raw, unprocessed images of the battered icy moon. They show an ancient, cratered surface bearing the ... > full story
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  Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea

  March 8, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's moon Rhea on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea in Cassini's mission. The primary purpose will be to probe the internal ... > full story
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  Herschel Space Observatory to Complete Its Mission Soon

  March 6, 2013 — The Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks, after spending more than three years studying the cool universe and surpassing the ... > full story
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  SpaceX's Dragon Carrying NASA Cargo Resupplies Space Station

  March 3, 2013 — The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. The delivery flight was the second contracted resupply ... > full story
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  Hubble Observes Glowing, Fiery Shells of Gas

  March 1, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary nebula known as ESO 456-67. Set against a backdrop of ... > full story
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  Research Rides Dragon to the International Space Station

  March 1, 2013 — A second contracted flight for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station will be twice as nice for researchers working with investigations on the orbiting laboratory. While ... > full story
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  NASA on Course to Launch Orion Flight Test

  March 1, 2013 — The first spacecraft NASA has designed to fly astronauts beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo era is well on its way to making a flight test next year, agency officials said Wednesday. The mission is ... > full story
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  Space Race Underway to Create Quantum Satellite

  February 28, 2013 — A new article describes how a quantum space race is under way to create the world's first global quantum-communication ... > full story
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  NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal a New Radiation Belt Around Earth

  February 28, 2013 — NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of ... > full story
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  Crews Rehearse Launch Abort System Stacking With Orion

  February 28, 2013 — Crane operators, technicians and engineers practiced lifting and stacking techniques this week as they moved a 6-ton replica escape rocket called the LAS, for Launch Abort System, from a trailer to ... > full story

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