NASA's pioneering Dawn spacecraft, a year late in being launched and 20 percent over budget, is slowly creeping up on the protoplanet Vesta and is expected to enter orbit around it about July 16, the first stop on a remarkable journey that will later take the craft to the larger dwarf planet Ceres.
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Dawn spacecraft creeping up on protoplanet
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First trailer arrives for Paul
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Shuttle Discovery launches at the Kennedy space Center
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NASA launches mission to Jupiter
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NASA moves Space shuttle Atlantis to launch pad
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NASA selects key contributions to 2022 European Space Agency mission to study Jupiter
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Planets may assemble around stars more quickly than anyone thought possible
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Atlantis astronauts begin spacewalk
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Company seeking money to build space telescope
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Vestavision to launch pay DTT service in May
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Shuttle Discovery returns to Earth
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NASA probes crash into the Moon
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Mystery object to whiz past Earth today
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Countdown begins to launch space shuttle Endeavour
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Space shuttle Discovery zooms toward space station
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Orbital Sciences launches Antares rocket
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NASA to push for new frontiers in 21st century: