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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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On The Radar

New names for Pluto's little moons Kerberos and Styx; and a new moon for Neptune 2013/07/15
Pluto's moons, formerly known as "P4" and "P5," are now named Kerberos and Styx; I ...
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Scale comparisons of the solar system's major moons 2013/07/10
A few presentation slides with pretty pictures, sized to scale, of the large moons of ...
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My ever-popular asteroids-and-comets montage, now in color, with bonus Toutatis 2012/12/18
My collage of all the asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft is probably the single ...
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