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Eta Carinae is a mysterious, extremely bright and unstable star located a mere stone's throw - astronomically speaking - from Earth at a distance of read more »
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A former member of U.S. military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of inte read more »
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NASA is hoping for a Monday liftoff for the Dawn spacecraft, a probe bound to visit the two largest asteroids in the solar system.

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Air travel can be the bane of any well-meaning environmentalist. One flight can spew tons of carbon and other pollution into the air, but let’s face read more »
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Panoramic image of the Carina Nebula taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's cameras. The image, released April 24, 2007, shows a 50 light-year read more »
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA moved space shuttle Endeavour a step closer to liftoff without an essential part: the "u."

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Teacher-turned-spaceflyer Barbara Morgan strapped into the space shuttle Endeavour with her six crewmates Thursday for a launch dress rehearsal, 22 y read more »
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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity sent signals Monday morning, indicating its power situation improved slightly against read more »
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ASTRONAUTS of the future will swap their heavy, cumbersome spacesuits for skin-tight "Barbarella-style" outfits.

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“There’s not been a disciplinary action or anything like that…” Bill Gerstenmaier, Associate administrator of NASA

MIAMI | NASA allowed at least t read more »
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NASA plans to overhaul the way it monitors the behavioral and mental health of its astronauts following findings that shuttle astronauts in at least read more »
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Poor NASA. They've truly suffered through a woebegone week of bad news.

First, the space agency was slammed for losing $94m worth of equipment. T read more »
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WASHINGTON — A report Friday on astronaut health and behavior appeared to undermine NASA's assertions for the past two decades that its work culture read more »
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July 27, 2007 · After astronaut Lisa Nowak went on a bizarre cross-country trip that ended with an attempted assault on a romantic rival, NASA promi read more »
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NASA's shuttle Endeavour remains on track for its planned launch next week after engineers pinned down the source of a leak inside the orbiter's cr read more »
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — The weather outlook was favorable Sunday as NASA started a countdown for the launch of the shuttle Endeavour with school teach read more »
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When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander rocketed into space Saturday, it went, like all missions, with the assurance that as few Earth microbes as possible read more »
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NASA officials say a chunk of ice may have cut a gouge on the underside of Endeavour during launch. The damage was seen in photographs taken from the read more »
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HOUSTON - Concerned NASA officials said Friday that there appears to be a 3-inch-by-3-inch gouge in a heat-shield tile on shuttle Endeavour's underb read more »
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