Martian explorer marks first year
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US space agency Nasa celebrates the first year on Mars of its Spirit robot rover vehicle.
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Malaysia has unveiled its first astronaut, a 34-year-old doctor who will blast off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and visit the International Space Station in September 2007.
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NASA's Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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NASA, the American space agency responsible for putting a man on the moon but who also lost seven astronauts in its 2003 Columbia Shuttle voyage and seven astronauts in its 1986 Challenger take-off, says the first space shuttle mission since the disaster
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - For the international space station's newest crew member, his first week aboard the orbiting outpost was anything but routine.
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JPL - NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has completed the challenging half-year task of shaping its orbit to the nearly circular, low-altitude pattern from which it will scrutinize the planet.
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More than 30 years ago, when NASAâs two Viking landers looked for signs of life on Mars, the results were ambiguous.
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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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As Spirit and Opportunity continue their treks through the Martian winter -- still on duty nearly a year after their arrivals, back down on Earth, NASA is already planning the robot rover that will follow them.
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Panoramic snap reveals mystery 'figure' A Chinese website has reportedly posted the first sighting of Martian life in the form of a mysterious figure caught on camera by the Spirit rover:â¦
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New close-up pics of the Red Planet NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has delivered its first close-up snaps of the Martian surface, courtesy of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).â¦
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The world&#39;s first private astronaut, South African-born Mike Melvill, was jubilant as he returned safely from a harrowing roller-coaster ride into space that stopped the hearts of onlookers.
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_ One of NASA&#39;s first astronauts, Oklahoma native L. Gordon Cooper Jr., was remembered at the Johnson Space Center as ``not too bad of a water skier, not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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Sitting  on&nbsp;the&nbsp;hill of an alien world millions of miles from home, a hardy  NASA robot celebrates an anniversary today - one year on the planet  Mars.
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A probable active glacier is identified on the surface of Mars for the first time.
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MOJAVE -- Burt Rutan&#39;s space ship one made its first trip into sub-orbital outer space in pursuit of the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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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.