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MAVEN Spared from Shutdown

Work has resumed on preparing NASA's next Mars mission for launch in November, despite a government shutdown.
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Congratulations LADEE!

LADEE safely entered lunar orbit on October 6 at 10:57 UTC. Congratulations to all involved!
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Asteroid Telescope First Light

Using a Shoemaker NEO Grant, a new telescope is operating in Illinois to do asteroid tracking
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Starship Century

Gregory and James Benford on their new book about our destiny among the stars.
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Images from Space: Sun Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2013

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