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NASA News, Dec 03, 2013

NASA Enhances 'Space Station Live' and Launches New Weekly ...NEWS.GNOM.ES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2013 /NEWS.GNOM.ES/ — Starting in December, NASA will show the public the International Space Station in new ways that will ...
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NASA Project Looks To Grow Turnips And Basil On The MoonRedOrbit
And plants provide psychological comfort, as the popularity of the greenhouses in Antarctica and on the Space Station show,” NASA said in a description of the ...
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Daily Mail

NASA Advances Effort to Launch Astronauts Again from U.S. Soil to ...HispanicBusiness.com
"The U.S. commercial space industry has made tremendous progress ... CCtCap will enable NASAto acquire a capability to transport crews to the space station, ...
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Space station astronauts plan Thanksgiving feastTucson Citizen
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, who spent last Christmas in space, said the turkey ... on Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 at 5:15 pm and is filed under News.
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Can the ISS photograph a home from space?NBCNews.com
On Tuesday a NASA flight engineer replied to “Nightly News” on Twitter, ... night on this broadcast we asked the crew of the international space station to do us a ...
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Russian Cargo Craft Docks With International Space StationRedOrbit
redOrbit.com science news space technology health videos images reference information ... Credit:NASA ... A Russian space freighter docked to the aft port of the International Space Station's Zvezda service module at 5:30 p.m. EST Friday, ...
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Thursday Marked 30th Anniversary Of Spacelab-1 LaunchRedOrbit
Merbold and his crewmates traveled onboard Columbia as part of NASA'sninth space shuttle mission. They spent a little over 10 days in spaceand orbited the ...
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RedOrbit

Students to talk live with astronauts on Space StationBay Net
By Press Release, Charles County Public Schools ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected CCPS to participate in ... program that connects students and astronauts through a live downlink from the space station.
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Bay Net

Space hosts busy Thanksgiving with launch, cometWDAM-TV
AP National News VideoMore>> ... It won't be visible with the naked eye on Thursday, but NASA has a fleet of telescopes trained on ISON (EYE'-sahn). ... For the six people on board the International Space Station - including American ...
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ABC News

NASA And Others Build On Past Microgravity Fire ResearchRedOrbit
NASA engineers, academic researchers and scientists of all stripes have built on past experiments and ... 12 aboard the space station as part of Expedition 37.
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RedOrbit

Thanksgiving in spaceThe Recorder
In this still image taken from video posted by NASA on Tuesday, NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio, left, and ... Associated Press ... For the six people on board the International Space Station — including American astronauts Mike Hopkins ...
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NASA's VeSpR Rocket Sneaks A Peek At Venus AtmosphereRedOrbit
redOrbit.com science news space technology health videos images ...Image Caption: NASA is launching a sounding rocket to study ultraviolet light being ... Air Force Station in Florida, the Venus Spectral Rocket (VeSpR) lifted off from White ... Lighter, regular hydrogen atoms tend to escape into space more quickly than the ...
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RedOrbit

To boldly go to a really cool program on outer spaceSo Md News
Years in the planning, the NASA Downlink on Wednesday went off without a hitch as Charles ... and Mike Hopkins questions — while the men were working at the International Space Station. ... “If you can see it today, it's old news tomorrow.
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Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week – Dec. 1, 2013Space.com
Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week – Dec. 1, 2013. bySPACE.com Staff | December 01, 2013 02:26pm ET. Go Back » ...
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National Geographic

Joshua Berk, Grand Forks, letter: Renewed space program could ...Grand Forks Herald
This news comes exactly 15 years to the day after construction began on the first city ... But sadly,NASA's brightest dream — the International Space Station — is ...
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SpaceX Hoping For Success On Third Attempt To Launch Falcon 9RedOrbit
However, once again, co-founder and CEO Elon Musk's space firm had to scrub the ... SpaceX has been contracted by NASA to ship supplies to the ISS via its ...
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ABC News

NASA manager pleads guilty to federal chargeDaytona Beach News-Journal
A former high-level NASA manager who was responsible for helping the private ... from the arrest, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a newsrelease and court documents. ... can take equipment and astronauts to the international space station.
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First Coast News

Commercial Spaceflight | NASA, Commercial Participants See ...Space News
The agency then invited companies to compete for funded Space Act Agreements, ... follows September's successful demonstration run to the station, no earlier than Dec. ... 12 pressconference, NASA's top human spaceflight official, William ...
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NASA Launches Mission to Study Upper Atmosphere of MarsHispanicBusiness.com
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Defense & Aerospace Week -- A ... into space at 1:28 p.m. EST Monday from Cape Canaveral Air ForceStation in ...
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LA Canyon News

Comet races toward Thanksgiving flybyKLFY
Comet races toward Thanksgiving flyby - Acadiana's Multi-Media News Station .... NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the comet as it passed the red ... Now, a battery of spaceand solar telescopes are tracking the comet, beaming ... comet for science but a disaster for the public and the press," Lisse said.
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NASA begins first antarctic airborne campaign from McMurdo StationHispanicBusiness.com
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Defense & Aerospace Week -- The ... at NASA's GoddardSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There are many ...
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India's Mars orbiter heads toward red planetallvoices
NASA first received close-up pictures of Mars in 1965 from its orbiter and has ... aboard the International Space Station and continuing through the 2030s, NASA and its ... According to a Space Industry news report, Inspiration Mars Foundation ...
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India Today

Meet SAR-401, the Russian 'astrobot' that could be working aboard ...Daily Mail
Russia's robonaut is similar to Nasa's as it is not designed to be completely autonomous ... It is capable of operating inside or outside the space station. ... He told Russian publication RIA Novosti (via Marchmont Innovation News) there is no ...
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China Launches Its First Moon Rover MissionWLTX.com
BEIJING - China successfully launched a lunar probe into space Monday morning, ... Xichang Satellite Launch Center, reported the official XinhuaNews Agency. ... a former NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station, ...
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RedOrbit

What's Thanksgiving Like In Space? NASA Astronauts On The ISS ...The Huffington Post News Team
More in Weird News ... We're talking about the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. In a new NASA video, released in advance of the holiday, ISS astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins say they'll be savoring some pretty ...
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NASA launches exo-brake parachute from ISS - Phys.org
NASA Launches First Exo-Brake Parachute from International Space Station ... example of how thespace station is being used to as a springboard to NASA's next great leap in exploration, .... The deadly news about all osteoporotic fractures.
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'Space Station Live' and Launches New Weekly Web Series - NASA
Starting in December, NASA will show the public the International Space Station in new ways that will highlight all the scientific research, cutting-edge ...
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NASA Launches First Exo-Brake Parachute from International Space ...
(Before It's News). First Nanosatellite of its Size Deployed from the ISS. MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Mission controllers have confirmed that a small satellite ...
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Russian cargo ship delivers holiday goodies to space station (wi ...
"The Kurs system had brought the Progress automatically in from stationkeeping mode from a distance of just 70 meters away from the space station," NASA ...
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Russian Commander manually docks cargo ship with the ...
A Russian spacecraft with supplies for the International Space Station successfully ... NASA says the Progress 53 cargo ship “…went into an unexpected station ... A judge has ordered the 911 calls from Sandy Hook be released. Top News.
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Alien Space Station Moves Past NASA SOHO Camera, Sept 17 ...
NASA UFO MIR space station UFO enhanced and stabilized ufo sightings 2013by News UFO Sighting60 views · 1:04. Watch Later Alien Craft caught on Nasa ...
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NASA, CASIS Work to Resolve Space Station IP Rights Issue | Portal ...
Home » News & Blogs » NASA, CASIS Work to Resolve Space Station IP Rights Issue ...conducted aboard the International Space Station, Space News reports.
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Russia Postpones Space Lab Launch Again | Russia | RIA Novosti
Related News. Russia to Deorbit Space Station's Pirs Module in 2013 · Russia May Build OwnSpace Station ... STAR CITY (Moscow Region), November 27 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian spaceagency has notified NASA that the launch of a ...
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Comet ISON | NASAwww.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/comet_ison/index.html
NASA has initiated a Comet ISON Observing Campaign to facilitate global observation of the sungrazing comet, incorporating both space-based and ground-based ...

Asteroid Watch - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratorywww.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch Cached
Breaking news, videos and more on all the asteroids, meteors, comets and other near earth objects discovered, tracked and analyzed by JPL spacecraft

These 5 far-out space projects are making science fiction a ...article.wn.com/view/2013/12/03/These_5_farout_space... Cached
NASA will begin growing plants on the Moon in 2015 View gallery. ... Yahoo Daily News2013-12-03: ... Gold rush in space? Asteroid miners prepare, ...

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Science@NASA Headline News - NASA Sciencescience.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa Cached
Science@NASA Headline News You ... Researchers working with magnetic fluids on the International Space Station are taking ... Hubble Sees an Asteroid with Six Comet ...

Space News from weather.com. - The Weather Channelwww.weather.com/news/science/space/international-space... Cached
Space, solar and stories related to the galaxy from weather.com

Asteroids and Comets News by SpaceRefwww.spaceref.com/news/mission.html?mid=50&page=2 Cached
Space Station; NASA Hack ... Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Pluto; Asteroids & Comets; Get Updates; Asteroids and Comets News. ... Steps in Space Exploration: NASA Asteroid...

Gold rush in space? Asteroid miners prepare, but eye water ...www.ndtv.com/article/world/gold-rush-in-space-asteroid... Cached
Officials from Deep Space Industries announce their plans for the world's first fleet of commercial asteroid-prospecting spacecraft at the Museum of Flying ...

Comet Ison To Fly By Mars - NASA Science News (8/23/2013)science.nasa.gov/science-news/...at-nasa/2013/23aug_marsison Cached
Home >Science News >Science@NASA Headline News >2013 > Comet ISON to fly byMars. ... Space Station will ... for Mars-- ScienceCast video NASA Comet ISON ...

Asteroids and Comets News by SpaceRefwww.spaceref.com/news/mission.html?mid=50 Cached
Space Station; NASA Hack Space; ... Mercury; Venus; Earth; Moon; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Pluto; Asteroids & Comets; Get Updates; Asteroids and Comets News.

Asteroids - NASA International Space Station Shuttle Missions ...www.spacestationinfo.com/asteroids.htm Cached
Spacestationinfo explains Asteroids, Asteroid Belt, Space Asteroids, Space Cometsand Space Meteors. Explore the asteroids, Comets, Meteors. Asteroids and Cometshave ...

Solar System Exploration: Planets: Comets: Eventssolarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Comets&... Cached
Comet ISON: Sizzle or Fizzle? Here's what we know about this much-discussed Oort Cloud comet: It is set to be the most observed comet by NASA ever - 16 space-based ...

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NASA's New Asteroid Mission Could Save the Planet | Space.comwww.space.com/8240-nasa-asteroid-mission-save-planet.html Cached
President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025 - a daunting mission that may carry the fate of the planet ...

Obama seeks $17.7 billion for NASA to lasso asteroid, explore ...www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/10/obama-seeks-177... Cached
NASA unveiled a $17.7 billion spending plan for 2014 today (April 10) that continues major ongoing space exploration projects, while including funds to ...

Space : Discovery News - DNewsnews.discovery.com/space Cached
The Space section is your home for the latest news and videos. Visit Discovery News to see what's new with Space.

Part of space station could go to asteroid - Technology ...www.nbcnews.com/.../t/part-space-station-could-go-asteroid Cached
A room on the International Space Station could ultimately be converted and detached to carry astronauts on their next great adventure, to an asteroid, NASA ...

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Science@NASA Headline News. ... has spotted a strange asteroid spewing six comet-like tails ... on the International Space Station could solve the mystery of ...

ScienceDaily: Asteroid, Comet, Meteor Newswww.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/asteroids,_comets... Cached
Asteroids, Comets, Meteors and Meteorites. See amazing images and read the latest astronomy articles on the asteroid belt, comets and more. What is the ...

ScienceDaily: NASA News - Science Daily: News & Articles in ...www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/nasa Cached
NASA pictures and NASA news. Science articles on NASA programs. Latest images from Hubble Telescope and much more.

Draft NASA funding bill cancels asteroid mission for return ...www.examiner.com/article/draft-nasa...asteroid...to-the-moon Cached
According to a June 14, 2013 story in Space News, a draft version of the 2013 NASAAuthorization Bill nixes any funding for President Obama’s asteroid retrieval

Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Official Sitewww.jpl.nasa.gov Cached
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system, and conducts major programs in space-based Earth sciences and ...

NASA shoots for asteroid, new manned missions - CNN.comwww.cnn.com/2013/04/10/politics/budget-nasa/index.html Cached
NASA plans to capture an asteroid and start sending astronauts aloft again by 2017, even with a tighter budget, the U.S. space agency announced Wednesday.

Why a Mars Comet Impact Would be Awesome : Discovery Newsnews.discovery.com/space/why-mars-getting-hit-by-a-comet... Cached
The small chance that Comet 2013 A1 may slam into Mars in 2014 could be a scientific smorgasbord -- potentially motivating a manned expedition to the red ...

News About Asteroids And Comets - SpaceDaily.comwww.spacedaily.com/Asteroids_and_Comets.html Cached
News About Asteroids And Comets. Free ... Astronomers using the NASA/ESA HubbleSpace Telescope have observed a ... Deep in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...

NASA identifies three asteroids for potential capture - Zee Newszeenews.india.com/news/space/nasa...asteroids...876284.html Cached
Washington: The US space agency has narrowed its hunt for an asteroid to capture to three, NASA said. The asteroids fit the requirements of being between ...

Mars Comet: NASA Says 'C/2013 A1' Unlikely To Hit Red Planet ...www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/mars-comet-nasa-c2013... Cached
A comet that had a slim chance of crashing into Mars in 2014 will almost certainly fly harmlessly past the Red Planet, scientists say. NASA researchers had ...

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Exploration of the planet Mars - facts, rover, mission, videos, pictures and information

NASA: huge asteroid Apophis will not hit Earth - National ...www.examiner.com/article/nasa-huge-asteroid-apophis-will... Cached
NASA scientists, in light of recent observations, have declared with great confidence that Earth is safe from quarter mile wide asteroid Apophis, which previous

New asteroid that 'belches out dust' discovered - CNN.comwww.cnn.com/2013/11/08/us/nasa-asteroid-discovered Cached
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a never-before-seen set of six comet-like tails radiating from a body in the asteroid belt, named P/2013 P5.

Space Agencies Of The World, Unite: The U.N.'s Asteroid ...www.npr.org/2013/11/03/242353389
The United Nations General Assembly may approve a plan soon for the world's spaceagencies to defend the Earth against asteroids. The plan, introduced last ...

NASA studies plan to lasso an asteroid - Technology & science ...www.nbcnews.com/id/...space/t/nasa-might-lasso-asteroid... Cached
NASA might lasso an asteroid and drag it to orbit near moon Wild $2.6 billion plan that could help humans land on Mars someday is being considered

Mars Exploration Program: What's Newmars.jpl.nasa.gov/news/whatsnew/index.cfm Cached
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed ... Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 is ... by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year ...

NASA Traces Evolution Of Asteroid Families - Space News ...www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112860487/nasa...of-asteroid... Cached
NASA Traces Evolution Of Asteroid Families ... families found in the main belt betweenMars and Jupiter, the space ... International Space Station;

NASA « Coalition for Space Explorationspacecoalition.com/blog/nasa Cached
At a press conference today, representatives of NASA and Bigelow Aerospace discussed the options for commercial sector involvement in space exploration beyond low ...

Space Weather Bureauwww.spaceweather.com Cached
COMET ISON, ... Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, ... Potentially Hazardous Asteroids ...

NASA Explains Their New Asteroid Retrieval Missionwww.universetoday.com/101378 Cached
NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earthasteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth ...

Comet ISON to fly by Mars - SpaceDaily.comwww.spacedaily.com/reports/Comet_ISON_to_fly_by_Mars_999... Cached
Comet ISON to fly by Mars by Dr. Tony Phillips for NASA Science News Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 26, 2013

NASA WISE Spacecraft to Be Reactivated to Hunt for Asteroids ...spaceindustrynews.com/nasa-wise-spacecraft-to...asteroids... Cached
Comet ISON to Fly By Mars Says NASA . ... NASA’s asteroid initiative will be the first mission to ... New Crew Launches to Space Station with Olympic Torch Aboard.

NASA Space Exploration: 'Asteroid First' or 'Moon First ...news.yahoo.com/nasa-space-exploration-asteroid-first... Cached
From Yahoo News: NASA and the space agencies of a variety of countries, including members of the European Union, Canada, Japan, Russia, India, the Ukraine, and South ...

NASA NEO Newsneo.jpl.nasa.gov/news Cached
Astronomers Monitor Asteroid to Pass Near Mars (NASA ... From The InternationalSpace Station (NASA Science News ... The Sun-Dancing Comet (European Space ...

NASA releases simulation of asteroid mission - CBS Newswww.cbsnews.com/news/nasa...simulation-of-asteroid-mission Cached
NASA is planning to capture and redirect a near-Earth asteroid, and it asked the public to help plan the mission. More than 400 proposals came in, and the space ...

Manned Mission to Largest Known Asteroid Plannednews.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131118-ceres... Cached
A trip to Ceres, the largest asteroid and nearest dwarf planet, is no harder than a trip toMars, researchers say.

NASA prepares for 3-D manufacturing in spacephys.org/news/2013-06-nasa-d-space.html Cached
(Phys.org) —In preparation for a future where parts and tools can be printed on demand inspace, NASA and Made in Space Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., have joined ...

NASA considering deep-space outpost on far side of moon | Fox ...www.foxnews.com/.../09/24/nasa-considering-deep-space...moon Cached
Will NASA’s next mission send its astronauts beyond the moon? The space agency is weighing a proposal to build a “gateway spacecraft” that would hang ...

Comet Heading For Mars? - Space News - redOrbitwww.redorbit.com/news/space/1112812365/comet...mars-032813 Cached
There is a small but non-negligible chance that Comet 2013 A1 will strike Mars ... This self portrait from NASA's Mars ... International Space Station;

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See SPACE.com's latest news, ... Experts with NASA say another comet's tail-clipping encounter with the sun in ... living on the International Space Station this ...

Near-Earth asteroid is really a comet - Phys.Orgphys.org/news/2013-09-near-earth-asteroid-comet.html Cached
Some things are not always what they seem—even in space. For 30 years, scientists believed a large near-Earth object was an asteroid. Now, an international team ...
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