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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Lost in the pre-election noise and the hoopla over the Red Sox march to the World Series title was perhaps the most remarkable event of all -- the visit to the atmosphere of the Saturnian moon Titan last week by the space probe Cassini, which negotiated
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft, this time in a moon rocket that hasn't even been built yet.
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One short flight for man, or the start of a long voyage for rich men. That&#39;s one way of looking at Monday&#39;s historic jaunt of the revolutionary spacecraft SpaceShipOne, which crossed the brink of space for the second time in six days.
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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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A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above   the south pole of the Sun last week, giving   scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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NASA SCIENTISTS are poised to blast a hole in a faraway comet to get a look at its innards. It&#39;s an innovative feat of scientific daring, but why not take a second shot at NASA itself?
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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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Photographs of the Martian surface taken by an orbiting spacecraft have revealed powerful evidence that liquid water occasionally flows on the Red Planet's surface, an unexpected finding that suddenly increases the odds that the planet may harbor some kind of life.
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By Chicago Tribune  Feb. 8--Being an astronaut, even if it doesn't quite carry the romantic cachet of "The Right Stuff" era of the 1960s, is still one of those jobs that ignites the imagination.
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Anyone who    wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize    will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five    people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth    at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.
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The shuttle Discoveryâs mission involves challenging construction work aboard the International Space Station.
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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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Remarkable new images of Earth's highest clouds have been captured by a Nasa spacecraft.
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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.
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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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NASA&#39;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.