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  Mars Rover Opportunity returns amazing panorama from the Red Planet

  By Sam Byford on July 6, 2012 12:04 am + 56 comments

  Almost exactly nine years after first blasting off from Earth, the Mars rover Opportunity just keeps Continue reading…

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  NASA reveals Orion capsule, set for eventual Mars mission

  By Louis Goddard on July 3, 2012 06:03 am + 52 comments

  NASA has unveiled a new passenger module with the ultimate goal of taking astronauts to Mars. Dubbed Continue reading…

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  Non-profit wants to launch deep space telescope to protect humanity from dangerous asteroids

  By Aaron Souppouris on June 29, 2012 08:01 am + 6 comments

  Non-profit group the B612 Foundation is launching a project which it hopes will see a telescope Continue reading…

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  NASA astronaut Donald Pettit wields 10 Nikon DSLRs on the ISS

  By Evan Rodgers on June 26, 2012 02:14 pm + 26 comments

  NASA astronaut and current International Space Station scientist Donald Pettit recently appeared at O Continue reading…

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  NASA details Curiosity's Mars landing in 'Seven Minutes of Terror' video

  By Amar Toor on June 26, 2012 12:51 am + 18 comments

  After years of development and billions of dollars in investment, the fate of NASA's Mars Rover Continue reading…

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  'Twisted' vortex beam Wi-Fi transfers data at 2.5Tbps

  By Andrew Webster on June 25, 2012 02:39 pm + 33 comments

  Researchers have managed to create a "twisted" radio wave that can transmit 2.56 terabits of data Continue reading…

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  The final days of NASA's Plum Brook nuclear facility chronicled in photos

  By Bryan Bishop on June 24, 2012 01:11 am + 23 comments

  In 1961, NASA's Plum Brook Reactor Facility in Sandusy, Ohio went live, with a focus on researching Continue reading…

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  New technology leads NASA to reevaluate the role of ground control

  By Adi Robertson on June 22, 2012 05:28 pm + 10 comments

  When the Apollo space capsule was first designed, it was imagined that the astronauts themselves Continue reading…

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  NASA and FAA partner for new commercial space flight standards

  By Bryan Bishop on June 19, 2012 05:40 am + 6 comments

  Less than a month after SpaceX successfully launched the first private space flight to the Continue reading…

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  Mysterious X37-B space plane returns to earth after 469-day mission

  By Jeff Blagdon on June 18, 2012 08:39 am + 23 comments

  The US Air Force’s top-secret, unmanned X37-B space plane successfully touched down at Vanderberg Continue reading…