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Components are placed on a flatbed trailer for the trip off Kitt Peak. All critical optics and electronics were shrink-wrapped and went down in a covered semi. Everything will be transferred to an enclosed trailer for the cross-country trip. In the backgr

Solar Telescope Instrument Gets Recycled for New Mission
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Russia's Space Woes Stress NASA's Need for Private Spaceships

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Flying Wing Goes Commercial

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Record-breaking Red Bull Space Dive Grounded by Lawsuit

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With hardware from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station appearing in the near foreground, a night time European panorama reveals city lights from Belgium and the Netherlands at bottom center. The picture was taken by members of the space station

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NASA Launches Astronaut Escape Ship in Test

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'TinKode' Hacker Suspect Arrested for NASA, Go...

Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old believed to be TinKode, a hacker who previously compromised the netw...
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The PILOT system, or Precursor ISRU Lunar Oxygen Testbed, is shown with Lockheed Martin's Bucketwheel on a lander. PILOT could produce up to one quarter of the oxygen needed to sustain a crew of four on the moon.

New Report Pinpoints NASA's 16 Biggest Space T...

Space radiation shields for astronauts and solar electric propulsion are on NASA's to-get list.
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The giant LOFAR radio telescope network will be used, among other things, to take a close look at giant black holes like the one at the heart of active galaxy Cygnus A (shown here), which is about 700 million light-years from Earth.

Gigantic Radio Telescope to Search for First S...

A new, huge radio telescope network called LOFAR (The Low Frequency Array) will link telescopes around the world.
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Declassified US Spy Satellites from Cold War L...

The spy satellites were used from the 1960s to the 1980s to observe the Soviet Union.
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This still from a video uploaded to YouTube by Toronto 17-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad shows their homemade balloon launch of a Lego minifigure into the stratosphere to catch views of near space.

Teens Put Lego Man in 'Space' (Actually Strato...

Two Canadian 17-year-olds spent $400 to launch their Lego minifigure on a near-space balloon ride.
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Freedom 7 Mercury Spacecraft on Display

Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule, Flown by 1st Americ...

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard flew the Freedom 7 capsule on May 5, 1961.
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Opportunity Rover Working Through Mars' Winter

Opportunity Rover Working Through Mars' Winter

Though technically hibernating, as winter progresses at its latitude, the Exploration Rover is delivering data on Mars' rotation; adding to its wealth of discoveries made since making planetfall on January 2...

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iPad Falls From Edge Of Space - And Survives

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How to Transport a Mars Rover Cross Country

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Robotic Lander Prototype Free Flight

Robotic Lander Prototype Free Fl...

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Warp Drives & Wormholes

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