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  NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development

  May 16, 2013 — NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in ... > full story
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  Galaxy's 'Burning Ring of Fire' Is Frenetic Region of Star Formation

  May 16, 2013 — Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center of a new image in red and yellow hues ... > full story
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  NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation

  May 15, 2013 — Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space ... > full story
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  Entrepreneur Giving Space Shuttle Truss New Uses

  May 14, 2013 — A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space shuttle engineer-turned-entrepreneur adapts it to everything from a solar-powered electric ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova

  May 6, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate wisps of gas that make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants ... > full story
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  Robots Take Part in a Space Simulation

  May 3, 2013 — The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists were studying how these intelligent assistance systems can help astronauts to keep fit ... > full story
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  Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space

  April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story
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  The Human Immune System in Space

  April 22, 2013 — When the space shuttle Atlantis touched down in the summer of 2011 at Cape Canaveral, closing the book on the U.S. shuttle program, a team of U.S. Army researchers stood at the ready, eager to get ... > full story
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  NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

  April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story
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  NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

  April 19, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared ... > full story

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