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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

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Images from Space: Sun Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2013

We are at a crucial turning point in the history of planetary exploration.

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Ten years since Spirit's launch 2013/06/10
Ten years ago, Spirit launched on a Delta II rocket toward Mars, and I was ...
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Blast from the Past: Spirit's tracks at the "End of the Rainbow" 2013/04/09
Doug Ellison shared this lovely panorama via Twitter over the weekend. It's from the ...
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Columbia, ten years on 2013/02/01
Remembering Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan ...
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