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Stories tagged with: nasa
Nasa's gravity twins now circling Moon
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16353839
The US space agency (Nasa) has succeeded in placing two new satellites in orbit around the Moon.Both spacecraft were put in elliptical paths around the lunar body over the weekend after performing braking manoeuvres following their more than 100-day journey from Earth.
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Nasa spacecraft orbits moon on New Year's Eve as part of $500m mission to scan Earth’s nearest neig
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2080881/Nasa-...
A Nasa spacecraft fired its engine and slipped into orbit around the moon Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year's weekend.Ground controllers erupted in cheers and applause after receiving a signal that the probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year's Eve arrival.
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Kepler mission discovers most Earth-like planet to date
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http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-kepler22b-habitable-exoplanet/207...
The ongoing search for Earth-like worlds has taken another promising step. On December 5, NASA announced the discovery of the planet most likely so far to sustain life outside of the Solar System.
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Submitted by aileenalmeda
2 months, 1 week, 1 day, 4 hours agoTags: Keplermission, SolarSystem, nasa, earth
Staking Out A Vampire Star
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http://www.universetoday.com/91644/staking-out-a-vampire-sta...
How do you peer into the dark heart of a vampire star? Try combining four telescopes! At ESO’s Paranal Observatory they created a virtual telescope 130 metres across with vision 50 times sharper than the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and observed a very unusual event… the transfer of mass from one star to another. While you might assume this to be a
violent action, it turns out that it’s a gradual drain. Apparently SS Leporis stands for “super slow”.
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Sun uncorks a massive solar blast
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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/201...
"The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an
area of almost half the solar surface," says a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center team statement.
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Submitted by jackwillstone
8 months, 1 week, 4 days, 7 hours agoTags: sun, cloud, covered, solar, nasa 
Meet NASA's Shuttle Rocket Retrieval Ships
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http://news.discovery.com/space/nasas-rocket-retrieval-ships...
On Friday, NASA released a fascinating video from one of the lesser-known components of the soon-to-retire shuttle program.Shot by high-definition cameras from the decks of NASA's two solid rocket booster (SRB) retrieval ships, the Liberty Star and Freedom Star, the video shows exactly what it takes to pluck the spent rockets from the Atlantic after launch. The footage depicts the retrieval of shuttle Discovery's boosters just after the launch of STS-133 last month.
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Submitted by GoldenHeart
11 months, 1 day, 3 hours agoTags: nasa, Shuttle Rocket, Retrieval Ships, space, technology
Messenger probe enters Mercury orbit
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12761025
Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has successfully entered into orbit around the planet Mercury - the first probe to do so.The robotic explorer initiated a 14-minute burn on its main thruster at 0045 GMT on Friday.
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Submitted by skristena
11 months, 1 day, 4 hours agoTags: messenger, Mercuryorbit, nasa, roboticexplorer 
9 NASA Facts Every American Should Know
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http://www.collegecrunch.org/feature/9-nasa-facts-every-amer...
Whether you become an artist, a business executive, a teacher, or a famous scientist, these 9 facts will help you realize the phenomenal potential every person has when they put their minds to something.
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NASA spacecraft now circling Mercury — a first
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_sc/us_sci_mercury;...
For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.NASA's spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year trip and 4.9 billion miles and tricky maneuvering to fend off the gravitational pull of the sun. It is the fifth planet in our solar system that NASA has orbited, in addition to the Earth and the moon.
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10 Most Memorable Moments in NASA History
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http://www.bestcollegesonline.net/blog/2011/10-most-memorabl...
With the shuttering of one of the most popular and recognizable ship fleets of all time, the moment is right to look back at the ways NASA has changed history and moved the world.
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Submitted by sunnyspeaks
11 months, 1 week, 5 days, 4 hours agoTags: nasa, space, history, Memorable, world
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