A gripping NASA adventure
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Genesis: This week over Utah, Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots will try to snag a returning spacecraft carrying solar particles. By Michael Stroh.
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By Nolan Rosenkrans, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 23--Despite the remarkable technical feat of space travel and the high-level skills that astronauts need, being one isn't quite as prestigious as it used to be.
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NASAâs Messenger spacecraft has captured a new view of the planet Mercury.
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Despite four decades of trying and some 40 space probes, the question of whether there&#39;s life on Mars remains as elusive as ever.
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It may seem, from a distance, just one small step. But in a few months, it should prove to have been a giant leap. NASA plans today to roll out from an assembly facility near New Orleans a redesigned fuel
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NASA -- Venturing into the vacuum of space, with its extreme temperatures and the challenges of weightlessness in what amounts to a personal spacecraft, can never become routine. Yet humans have made more than 250 spacewalks, 142 of them by NASA astronauts...
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The Dawn probe may be the feeblest spacecraft NASA's ever built, but it may usher in a new age of ultraefficient space travel
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn.
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The reaction to NASA's still-secret air safety survey.
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The Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, will claim a place in history as tremendous successes. But to get the rovers ready for launch, mission team members had to push themselves to their limits. MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres explains how they handled the challenge.
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Since the beginning of the year, NASA has endured an astronaut's arrest in a bizarre love triangle, a workplace murder-suicide and a freak hail storm at the launch pad. What it hasn't had is a space shuttle launch.
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SpaceShipOne pioneer Burt Rutan gives a glimpse of what fare-paying passengers can expect when they take their ride into space.
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Keeping an astronaut crew in tip-top shape during lengthy treks to and from distant Mars may demand portable gravity.
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NASA has been exploring space for nearly half a century, yet there's one thing we still don't know: what is the best way to explore an alien planet?
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Remarkable new images of Earth's highest clouds have been captured by a Nasa spacecraft.
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By Steve Scott, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 14--While one Minnesotan walks in space, another is anchored at Houston Mission Control as the lead flight director of the Atlantis shuttle mission.
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The space program may be troubled now, but it did produce some cutting-edge breakthroughs in astronaut comfort. Inside Lisa Nowakâs travel wear.