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NASA’s successful test flight of X-40A vehicle is major accomplishment for its X-37 program
The X-40A glided to the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, its nose wheel set down smoothly, and the test vehicle rolled to a gentle stop, but no […]
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The Star, Not The Instrument, Was On The Blink
When a star tracker on NASA’s Galileo spacecraft temporarily lost a star being used as a reference point for monitoring the spacecraft’s attitude, engineers suspected an aberration in the equipment, […]
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The first pictures from Mars
If you like TV, you’ll love the Mars Channel. Take your seats for the network premiere of interplanetary telly. Ben Iannotta reports “When you watched Neil Armstrong walking on the […]
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Student Experiments Fly High Thanks to NASA
A NASA education program will give high school students from across the country the opportunity for their dreams to literally take flight when experiments designed by the students fly on […]
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Steam engines in space – Miniature spacecraft are puffing their way back to the steam age
Gentle puffs of steam could one day propel tiny spacecraft round the cosmos, say space scientists in Beijing. Steam power would provide a green alternative to toxic fuels in miniature […]
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Rocket, Please “Phone Home”
Imagine a day when self-diagnostic tools allow future rockets to phone home with vital information about their condition, location and performance. NASA engineers hope that day comes sooner than later […]
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Polar telescope sights first high-energy neutrinos
A novel telescope, buried deep in the Antarctic ice at the South Pole, has become the first instrument to detect and track high-energy neutrinos from space, setting the stage for […]
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New Scanner Helps the Search for Shuttle Tile Flaws
NASA workers who face the critical and often tedious task of evaluating damage to the space shuttle’s protective thermal tiles now have some high-tech help in the form of a […]
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JPL Team Chosen for NASA Astrobiology Institute
JPL researchers have been chosen by NASA to be one of four new teams that will be part of the agency’s Astrobiology Institute, a national and international research consortium that […]
