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 Huntsville, AL (SPX) Nov 07, 2012 NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is using a method called selective laser melting, or SLM, to create intricate metal parts for America's next heavy-lift rocket. Using this state-of-the-art technique will benefit the agency by saving millions in manufacturing costs. NASA is building the Space Launch System or SLS - a rocket managed at the Marshall Center and designed to take humans, equipment and experiments beyond low Earth orbit to nearby asteroids and eventually to M ... read more |
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  Curiosity Team Switches Back to Earth Time After three months working on "Mars time," the team operating NASA Mars rover Curiosity has switched to more regular hours, as planned. A Martian day, called a sol, is about 40 minutes longer ... more | |
  Strange diet for methane consuming microorganisms Methane is formed under the absence of oxygen by natural biological and physical processes, e.g. in the sea floor. It is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the activi ... more | |
 Survey of 'Matijevic Hill' Continues Opportunity has completed approximately half of the local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Ende ... more | |
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  NASA Radar Images Asteroid 2007 PA8 Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have obtained several radar images depicting near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8. The images w ... more | |
  Moon crater yields impact clues NASA scientists say an almost perfectly preserved crater on the moon should yield clues to the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies. ... more | |
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Pixxel expands Firefly fleet advancing global hyperspectral satellite imaging
Metop SGA1 begins delivering atmospheric data weeks after launch
Searchers retrieve bodies as Afghan quake toll expected to rise | |
 NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars' Atmosphere NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. Learning what happened to the Martian atmosphere wil ... more | |
 Mars Longevity Champ Switching Computers NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, already the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, will switch to some fresh, redundant equipment next week that has not been used since before launch in 2001. ... more | |
  SpaceX Transitions to Third Commercial Crew Phase with NASA Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed its first three performance milestones for NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to lead to the av ... more | |
 Russian Proton Briz-M Launches Yamal Satellites Into Orbit Both Yamal satellites launched earlier have successfully reached orbit, Russia's space agency Roscosmos confirmed on Saturday morning. "The separation of the Yamal-300K from the Briz-M booster ... more |
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  Off to the Future with a new Soccer Robot Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed a new robot whose source code and design plan is publicly accessible. It is intended to facilitate the entry into research on humanoids ... more | |
  It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Space Station Galactic tourism may still be a daydream for most of us, but for anyone interested in a glimpse of the International Space Station sooner, NASA is ready to help. ... more | |
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Beijing shows off drones, missiles and lasers in military parade
New wave: sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port
'Mockery of science': US experts blast Trump climate report | |
 Protoplanet Vesta: Forever young? Like a movie star constantly retouching her makeup, the protoplanet Vesta is continually stirring its outermost layer and presenting a young face. New data from NASA's Dawn mission show that a ... more | |
 Flying rescue robot can avoid obstacles U.S. researchers say they have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles. ... more | |
 Nereidum Montes helps unlock Mars' glacial past On 6 June, the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express revisited the Argyre basin as featured in our October release, but this time aiming at Nereidum Montes, some 380 km northeast of Ho ... more | |
 Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a study by Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from t ... more |
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