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New photos of several Apollo moon landing sites were released today (Sept. 6), showing extraordinary new details about three areas on the lunar surface that were visited by humans. The images include the sharpest views yet of tracks left by the astronauts and their lunar rovers
Read More »An Astronaut’s View of the Southern Lights as the Final Shuttle Mission Wraps Up
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Read More »Dawn Spacecraft Poised to Enter Orbit at Vesta Asteroid
By Ron Cowen of Nature magazine The Dawn spacecraft had a difficult birth: it was threatened by cost overruns and technical concerns, cancelled, reinstated and scaled down. [More]
Read More »Atlantis Docks with Space Station for Last Time
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Read More »Status Report on the Launch of Atlantis
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Read More »Truckin’ Up to Low Earth Orbit–the Shuttle Era Is Go for History, Part 1
"The orbiter is a completely different vehicle than anything that has ever flown in space." It was a work platform, a spacewalk platform, a construction site with a robotic arm, a laboratory, a people mover. It was a complex vehicle operating at the edge of its performance, with very little margin for error," John Shannon, program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston told Air & Space magazine in March.
Read More »Astronauts Prepare for Final Space Shuttle Mission
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Read More »NASA Takes Aim at Mars Instead of Europa
By Adam Mann A showdown over the course of Solar System exploration has ended with a qualified victory for Mars. [More]
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