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  Eulogy to Herschel

  January 2, 2013 — With its 2160 liters of liquid helium about to run out, the Herschel Space Observatory will, by the end of March, become just another piece of space junk. The astronomer who leads one of the ... > full story
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  Space Travel May Be Harmful to the Brain, Study Suggests; Prolonged Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Hasten Alzheimer's

  December 31, 2012 — As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study shows that cosmic radiation -- which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars -- could accelerate ... > full story
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  NASA'S Space Launch System Core Stage Passes Major Milestone, Ready to Start Construction

  December 28, 2012 — The team designing America's new flagship rocket has completed successfully a major technical review of the vehicle's core stage. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will take the agency's Orion ... > full story
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  NASA Puts Orion Backup Parachutes to the Test

  December 20, 2012 — NASA completed the latest in a series of parachute tests for its Orion spacecraft Thursday at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona, marking another step toward a first flight ... > full story
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  Canadian Experiment to Track Space Radiation and Its Risks

  December 20, 2012 — Space can be a potentially hazardous environment to live and work in, especially when it comes to radiation. Originating from violent storms on the Sun and galactic cosmic rays produced in distant ... > full story
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  From Cassini for the Holidays: Backlit View of Saturn and Its Rings

  December 18, 2012 — Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its ... > full story
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  Botany Experiment Will Try out Zero Gravity Aboard Space Station

  December 18, 2012 — Gravity: It’s the law in these parts. But to reach the stars, humans may have to learn to live outside the ... > full story
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  How White Dwarfs Mimic Black Holes

  December 17, 2012 — Astronomers have revealed that bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in fact be produced by white dwarfs. They made the discovery by ... > full story
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  Beating Heart of J-2x Engine Finishes Year of Successful NASA Tests

  December 14, 2012 — NASA has taken another step toward human exploration of new destinations in the solar system. At the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, engineers conducted the final test-firing of the ... > full story
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  Saying 'Godspeed' to a Spidernaut: Eight-Legged Nefertiti Spent 100 Days on International Space Station

  December 13, 2012 — Nefertiti didn't spin a web like Charlotte; her kind never could. But the red-back jumping spider earned a classy nickname, Spidernaut, as well as a bunk at the popular Insect Zoo of the National ... > full story

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