(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta at an altitude ...
Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2011
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In a span of 20 months from March 1965 to November 1966, NASA developed, tested and flew transformative capabilities and cutting-edge technologies in the Gemini program that paved the way for not only Apollo, but the achievements ...
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2015
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The search for life should be an essential component of a sample return mission from Mars, according to a recent report examining the science behind such a venture.
Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2012
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In 2008, David Mindell, the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; professor of aeronautics and astronautics; and director of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2010
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A top NASA manager cast doubt Wednesday on the space agency's ability to land astronauts on the moon by 2024.
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2019
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As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.
Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2011
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NASA needs new technology breakthroughs to revitalize its mission to explore the universe, President Barack Obama said Wednesday as the shuttle Atlantis was preparing for its final mission.
Space Exploration
Jul 6, 2011
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On Friday, NASA successfully launched its next-generation spaceship farther than any astronaut has flown since the Apollo program of the 1960s. Though the Orion was unmanned during the test flight, which took it 15 times ...
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2014
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It's been more than 50 years since humanity ventured to the deepest place on Earth, but four crews now are racing to make a return trip.
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2011
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Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017, manned missions to Mars are closer to reality than ever before.
Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2017
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