Water vs. Land: NASA Weighs Landing Options for Orion Spacecraft
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NASA expects to decide sometime in 2008 whether the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the agency's space shuttle replacement, will typically splash down off the California coast or touch down on dry land when it returns from space.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA managers kept close tabs on the weather Thursday as thunderstorms and low clouds threatened to prevent space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts from landing after a trip to the international space station.
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An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.
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By AP  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- How could NASA improve on a week that saw a successful space shuttle launch against bad-weather odds, the unveiling of an exciting new mission to the moon and a tantalizing discovery on Mars?   With a Nobel Prize, of course. NASA scientist John C.
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LIVELY MARS : ET might just be out there. NASA&#39;s two Mars rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, landed on the Red Planet early in 2004 and have since found conclusive evidence of water that could possibly have harboured life.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N has   won a five-year, $3.9 billion contract to design and build a   capsule-like U.S. spacecraft called Orion to take humans back   to the Moon and beyond, the National Aeronautics and Space   Administration said on Thursday.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.    Scientists long have debated whether water flowed on the red planet, with evidence increasing in recent years.
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GOLDEN,  Colorado - NASA's next mission to Mars--the Phoenix lander--is undergoing readiness testing in preparation for an early August launch window.
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Photographs sent by a NASA orbiter suggests that water may indeed be flowing on Mars. And where there's water, there's at least a chance of life. By the Associated Press.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Thursday delayed for a day the landing of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis because of bad weather in Florida.
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By Scott, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Feb. 11--When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of the space program. One of my earliest memories was watching Apollo 11 land on the moon.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity found evidence for a lake or sea on Mars, and new research suggests the body of water was deep, large and long-lasting.
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The next generation shuttle, designed to support eventual lunar stops on the way to Mars, may benefit from a NASA concept to separate crew and cargo in future missions. Before a crew is sent, the cargo will be waiting for them.
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NASA said the Wednesday landing of space shuttle Atlantis was canceled because of weather conditions and an unidentified object seen outside the shuttle.  NASA Mission Control in Houston informed the STS-115 crew about 10:45 a.m.
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The crash of the Genesis spacecraft is a loss for NASA and for science. Once again, the potential of robotic space exploration is called into question.
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The moon has very little atmosphere, and lots of dust. Those are some of the things being considered this week at the home of the Hubble Space Telescope, where astronomers are discussing the opportunities offered by NASA's plan to return to the moon, including the possibility of a telescope on the lunar surface.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.