NASA Prepares to Spy on a Satellite
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Scientists are about to get their first really close and revealing look at Titan, the invitingly mysterious giant moon of Saturn.
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The U.S. Navy will likely attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite on Thursday, the day after the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land, two officials told CNN today. The Navy plans to fire a missile at the satellite as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
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The crew of the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery was preparing Sunday for its rendezvous with the International Space Station.  NASA said the crew was inspecting the shuttle's heat shield for any possible damage from Saturday's launch, and preparing tools necessary for the rendezvous.
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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth&#39;s atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over
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Military officials laid out a plan to shoot down a spy satellite before it tumbles to Earth carrying toxic fuel.
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For the first time in the history of astronomy, scientists are about to glimpse the mysterious surface of Titan, Saturn&#39;s haze-shrouded moon.
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Israel's sophisticated new spy satellite has begun transmitting images from space, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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The Pentagon plans to shoot down a  disabled U.S. spy satellite before it enters the atmosphere to  prevent a potentially deadly leak of toxic gas from the  vehicle's fuel tank, officials said on Thursday.
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Long before the public learned in late January that a damaged U.S. spy satellite carrying toxic fuel was going to crash to Earth, the government secretly assembled a high-powered team of officials and scientists to study the feasibility of shooting it down with a missile.
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NASA sets a rocket in motion toward a comet, hoping to gain knowledge of the comet's makeup.
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Spy satellite, due to fall to Earth next month, is size of small bus and has hazardous chemicals on board
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America.
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The U.S. space agency is planning a mission to better understand a mysterious form of energy in the cosmos and an ambitious unmanned journey to the outer solar system, NASA officials said.
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During the next week, a wayward U.S. spy satellite will make passes across North America and western Europe soon after sunset and should be easily visible to the unaided eye.
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One of the world's most powerful telescopes will begin spying on the universe on Friday, using its 34-foot wide mirror to search for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.
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The Cassini spacecraft is set to buzz through the upper atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan on Tuesday, using high-tech cameras to peek at its mysterious surface.