NASA Headlines
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NASA says competition is key to private space race
8 hrs, 59 mins ago
Competition is vital to the race among private companies to replace the space shuttle, NASA said Thursday, after Congress called for the US space agency to fund a single company.
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4,700 Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Lurk Near Earth, NASA Says
11 hrs, 53 mins ago
A new NASA survey has pinned down the number of asteroids that could pose a collision threat to Earth in what scientists say is the best estimate yet of the potentially dangerous space rocks.
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NASA Loans Space Telescope to Caltech
16 May 2012
NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galex) ultraviolet space telescope to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, which intends to put the 9-year-old spacecraft back into service using private funds.
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NASA astronaut to attend Dunedin science festival
16 May 2012
NASA astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson, a veteran of three space flights who has logged more than 42 days in space, will be making her next touchdown at this year's eighth New Zealand International Science Festival taking place in Dunedin, from 30 June to 8 July 2012.
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Private Space Taxi Builders Ponder Future Beyond NASA
16 May 2012
The private spaceflight company SpaceX is poised to launch a robotic capsule toward the International Space Station Saturday (May 19) on a test flight that, if successful, could be a watershed moment for the commercial space industry
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NASA's massive renovation
16 May 2012
The best time to do a little renovating is when everyone is out of the house -- something homeowners know and something NASA appears to appreciate too
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NASA Headlines
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MIT’s TESS project awarded $1 million NASA grant - MIT News
1 hr, 45 mins ago
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project at MIT has been named by NASA as one of the 11 proposals recently accepted for evaluation as potential future science missions, the space agency announced in a press release
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Era of private spaceflights blasts off Saturday - Dallas Morning News
2 hrs, 6 mins ago
Instead of keeping space travel a closely guarded government function, NASA has already begun hiring privately funded startup companies for spacecraft development and is moving toward eventually outsourcing NASA space missions
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Testing Private Ship to the Space Station, and Wine, Too - New York
2 hrs, 28 mins ago
Erring on the side of caution, officials at NASA and SpaceX have stressed that the purpose of the mission is to shake out glitches
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NASA survey counts potentially hazardous asteroids - PhysOrg
9 hrs, 16 mins ago
New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are closely aligned with the plane of our solar system than previous models suggested
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International Space Station: Critics ask, where's the science? - msnbc.com
9 hrs, 45 mins ago
WASHINGTON - After more than 12 years and at least $100 billion in construction costs, NASA leaders say the International Space Station finally is ready to bloom into the robust orbiting laboratory that the agency envisioned more than two decades ago.
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Soccer Standout Turned NASA Astronaut Speaks To NCAA Champs - YAHOO!
9 hrs, 52 mins ago
HOUSTON, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut and former student athlete Sandra Magnus will be the featured speaker during the closing ceremonies at the 2012 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Championships
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NASA Announces 2012 Space Technology Research Fellowship Grants - Sacramento Bee
2 hrs, 2 mins ago
NASA Announces 2012 Space Technology Research Fellowship GrantsSacramento BeeBy NASA WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected the 2012 class of Space Technology Research Fellows
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Soccer Standout Turned NASA Astronaut Speaks To NCAA Champs - Sacramento Bee
3 hrs, 2 mins ago
Soccer Standout Turned NASA Astronaut Speaks To NCAA ChampsSacramento BeeBy NASA HOUSTON, May 17, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut and former student athlete Sandra Magnus will be the featured speaker during the closing ceremonies at the 2012 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II
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NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech - Space Daily
3 hrs, 7 mins ago
UPI.comNASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to CaltechSpace Dailyby Whitney Clavin NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos
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NASA Ponders Transporting Tourists to International Space Station - Wall Street Journal
4 hrs, 6 mins ago
The GuardianNASA Ponders Transporting Tourists to International Space StationWall Street JournalBy ANDY PASZTOR NASA is figuring out how to let space tourists do something they have never been allowed to do before: hitch a ride on US spacecraft intended to take astronauts to the international space station
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NASA announces Marshall Center Contractor Excellence awards - WAFF
6 hrs, 21 mins ago
al.com (blog)NASA announces Marshall Center Contractor Excellence awardsWAFFOfficialsMore >> NASA awarded three companies with the 2011 Marshall Center Contractor Excellence award on Thursday
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Artifacts | Man on a Mission - New York Times (blog)
8 hrs, 49 mins ago
New York TimesArtifacts | Man on a MissionNew York Times (blog)With its space shuttle in retirement, NASA is now preparing to land humans on Mars
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