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Latest News About NASA's Space Launch System
NASA has picked the design for its next big rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). This heavy-lift booster will carry humans farther than they've ever been, to an asteroid, Mars and beyond.
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NASA's Curiosity rover is the biggest and most advanced robotic explorer ever sent to Mars.
The orbiter is expected to make a full recovery.
Reaction Engines Ltd. is designing the Skylon space plane.
NASA's newest Mars rover is not the first spacecraft to attempt to land on the Red Planet.
A look at previous missions that have attempted to land on Mars.
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Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen in this cool space wallpaper.
To launch sooner, the first test flight of the new module will not be on the proposed Space Launch Systems rocket, but aboard the behemoth Delta IV heavy. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has developed an adaptor ring to accommodate both rockets.
The space agency is happy to share the spotlight with companies like SpaceX.
The scientists examined samples from the Murchison meteorite, which fell to Earth in 1969.
This cool space wallpaper shows a bow shock is created in space when two streams of gas collide.
The test capsule will be assembled at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Skywatcher Tunc Tezel captures the Virgo constellation and more in this view from Turkey.
The plane crossed in front of the bright stars of Orion.
NASA will detail work to revamp its Mars exploration program today at 1 p.m. ET.
The plan will use a Russian rocket to launch the European Space Agency's ExoMars Mars mission.
The movie voice of the leader of the Transformers (Peter Cullen) narrates this NASA promotional film.
Lunar halos are caused when light passes through ice crystals formed in clouds in Earth's atmosphere.
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