NASA Calls Dawn Spacecraft the 'Prius of Space'
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The Dawn spacecraft, which launches Wednesday, will be the first vehicle to visit one celestial body -- an asteroid -- and then power on to another. And the ion-powered craft needs only a small amount of fuel for its seven-year trip.
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By Mike Schneider  Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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Washington- NASA announced late Monday that it had picked Northrop Grumman Space Technology to help it develop a spacecraft that could explore three of Jupiter&#39;s moons, a project potentially worth $232 million to the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland
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By Maxine Ashford  Renowned for its 'Power of Dreams' slogan, it seems Honda may have called upon NASA to help design its latest Civic model.
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HOUSTON -- NASA mission managers are weighing plans to address a stubborn solar array left half-exposed above the International Space Station (ISS), and lauded a successful Thursday spacewalk to rewire the orbital laboratory.
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WASHINGTON - Flight controllers at NASA&#39;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by the Jan. 11 test of a  Chinese anti-satellite (A-Sat) weapon.
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The launch of NASA&#39;s Dawn spacecraft has met a new delay, with liftoff set for no earlier than July 15, the space agency said late Friday.
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US space agency Nasa celebrates the first year on Mars of its Spirit robot rover vehicle.
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The US space agency NASA on Thursday launched the space probe Dawn on an eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system and how it was born.
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And this is Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we have a report about NASAâs two exploration vehicles on the surface of Mars.
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A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about 126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past the closest planet to the sun.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 7--WITH MAJOR ADVANCES in robotic technology in recent years, NASA has scored many significant triumphs with uncrewed missions to Mars, Saturn and beyond as well as in Earth orbit.
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Confident after two nearly flawless launches, NASA will send the Discovery shuttle on what it calls the most complex mission yet, to give the International Space Station a new electricity system.
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Billions of years after a galactic &quot;baby boom,&quot; a NASA spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in the Earth&#39;s part of the universe.
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The European Space Agency says its Jules Verne spacecraft has completed 21 days of simulated space vacuum, sub-zero temperatures and solar radiation.
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By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This has been a weird year for the U.S. space agency, more notable for contributing a story line for the TV series "Law & Order" than for spaceflight.
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The European Space Agency says its first Automated Transfer Vehicle, called the Jules Verne, will be ready for launch early next year.