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NASA stories: 315 news summaries

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 NASA Mission 
 Monitors Polar Ice 

Antarctica jet filling in for dying satellite

Oct 30, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - NASA has begun a mission much closer to home than usual. The agency is flying a DC-8 over Antarctica to track melting glaciers and any subsequent rise in sea levels. Operation Ice Bridge is designed to buttress the work of a fading satellite, ICESat, which is just about spent after... More »

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climate change • NASA • global warming • sea level • Antarctica • satellite • glacier • polar ice caps

 Farthest-Ever Star Blast 
 From Ancient Cosmos 

Gamma ray burst took 13 billion years to reach Earth

Oct 29, 09 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Astronomers have detected a cosmic object more distant than any ever seen: a gamma ray burst about 13 billion light-years from Earth. The massive, luminous burst occurred about 600 million years after the Big Bang—that is, when the universe was 4% of its current age—and only lasted for... More »

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NASA • astronomy • star • Big Bang • universe • gamma rays

 Ares Test 
 Rocket 
 Blasts Off 

Possible space shuttle replacement launches after long delay

Oct 28, 09 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket finally blasted off this morning, after several delays and a storm-foiled first attempt. The $445 million rocket is the first of its kind, and NASA hopes it’ll eventually replace the space shuttle and take astronauts to the moon. Originally it was supposed to... More »

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Iraq • NASA • aerospace • rocket • space program • outer space • Ares I • Ares launch video



 NASA 
 Scrubs 
 Rocket's 
 Test Flight 

It may try tomorrow if weather permits

Oct 27, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(AP) - NASA's newest rocket will remain on the launch pad today because of clouds and high winds. Officials are deciding whether to try again tomorrow morning. Launch controllers tried repeatedly to get the Ares I-X rocket flying and got to within two-and-a-half minutes before calling it off. Minor problems stalled the... More »

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NASA • space exploration • space flight • Cape Canaveral • rocket • Ares launch video

 NASA Readies  
 New Rocket  
 for Test Flight 

It's the first new US rocket in 30 years

Oct 20, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - NASA rolled out a seaside launch pad in Florida today, preparing to test its first new rocket designed for manned space travel in almost 30 years. The Ares I-X is a prototype of the Ares I, which NASA hopes will power the new spacecraft that will replace the shuttle. It... More »

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NASA • space flight • rocket • Ares launch video

 Top US Scientist 
 Busted for Spying 

Space researcher accused of trying to sell secrets to Israel

Oct 20, 09 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A leading American space scientist has been charged with attempted espionage after being busted in an FBI sting operation. Stewart Nozette, who worked on classified aerospace projects for agencies including NASA and the Department of Defense, was arrested when he attempted to pass secrets to an FBI agent posing as... More »

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NASA • espionage • Mossad • Department of Defense • scientist • Stewart Nozette

 NASA Crashes 
 Probes Into Moon 

Intentional crashes are part of hunt for water

Oct 9, 09 7:05 AM CDT
(AP) - NASA has successfully bulldozed two spacecraft into the moon's south pole in a search for hidden ice, but without the promised live photos. First, a 2.2-ton empty rocket hull smacked the moon's south pole at 7:31am. Four minutes later, the camera-laden space probe made its plunge to examine... More »

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NASA • space exploration • moon

 NASA to Smash 
 Rocket Into Moon 
 Tomorrow 

New crater will be blasted into surface as NASA hunts for buried ice

Oct 8, 09 4:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - If there's ice under the moon's surface, NASA aims to find it tomorrow. A rocket will smash into a crater near the moon's south pole, kicking up hundreds of thousands of pounds of lunar dirt. The dirt will be analyzed for traces of ice or water by a satellite following... More »

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NASA • satellite • moon • rocket • moon colonization

(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a colossal ring around Saturn, the biggest planetary ring yet found. It's enormous even by solar system standards: Among the analogies being used to make it clear to our little earthly minds is that it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it. "This thing is... More »

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NASA • planet • Saturn • solar system • outer space

Slideshow

 New Hubble Images Dazzle 

Refurbished telescope can see further, with more color

Sep 9, 09 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - NASA released the first shots from the recently upgraded Hubble Space Telescope today, and the results are spectacular. Thanks to the new imagers installed in May, Hubble can now see farther, with greater clarity and a wider color spectrum, reports NPR. Officially, NASA calls it a new beginning for the... More »

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NASA • Hubble • deep space • galaxy • outer space • Hubble Space Telescope

(Newser) - Satire just doesn't translate well. Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologized to readers after breathlessly reporting a US scoop: Neil Armstrong thinks the moon landing was a hoax! Problem is, the story appeared in the Onion. "We've since learned that the fun site runs false and juicy reports based on... More »

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NASA • satire • Bangladesh • The Onion • moon landings • Neil Armstrong

 Approaching Debris 
 Doesn't Stop Spacewalk 

Space junk may come within 2 miles of station, shuttle

Sep 3, 09 6:25 PM CDT
(AP) - Two astronauts stepped out on a spacewalk to install a new tank of space-station coolant today as a large piece of orbiting junk headed their way. The old rocket part was expected to pass early tomorrow within 2 miles of the shuttle-station complex, considered a safe distance by NASA specialists.... More »

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NASA • International Space Station • spacewalk • Discovery • space junk • Danny Olivas • Christer Fuglesang

(Newser) - Astronauts walking outside the International Space Station lost communications with NASA ground control for 33 minutes today, Reuters reports, after a storm cut the link through a relay station on the Pacific island of Guam. “This is no safety of flight issue,” said a spokesman, who added that... More »

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NASA • storm • astronauts • International Space Station • spacewalk • Guam • communications

OPINION

 Send Astronauts to Mars 
 —and Leave Them There 

Why a one-way ticket is the best way to the red planet

Sep 1, 09 11:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The most feasible way to get humans on Mars is to offer retirement-age astronauts one-way tickets to live out their last days on the red planet. Say what? It's not as crazy as it sounds, writes scientist Lawrence Krauss in the New York Times, who believes his plan would solve... More »

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NASA • space exploration • Mars • astronauts • red planet

(AP) - Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers to the International Space Station today containing a new freezer, sleeping compartment, and treadmill named for TV personality Stephen Colbert. The Italian-built chest—nicknamed Leonardo, as in da Vinci—was moved from space shuttle Discovery via a hefty robot arm and hoisted onto... More »

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entertainment • NASA • space • space shuttle • International Space Station • Stephen Colbert • Discovery

 Discovery, on 3rd Try, Blasts Off 

Shuttle carries treadmill named for Stephen Colbert

Aug 28, 09 11:11 PM CDT
(AP) - Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts blasted off seconds before midnight (EDT) from Florida, lighting up the sky for miles around. It was NASA's third launch attempt. Tuesday's try was called off by thunderstorms and Wednesday's by fuel valve trouble. Discovery is hauling a full load of space station... More »

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NASA • space shuttle • Stephen Colbert • Cape Canaveral • Discovery space shuttle • Discovery

Dutch Museum's 'Moon Rock' an Out-of-This-World Fake

Gift from NASA is just petrified wood, tests reveal

Aug 28, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A “moon rock” exhibited at the Dutch national museum is actually petrified wood, the BBC reports. The three Apollo 11 astronauts gave the object to former PM Willem Drees on a tour following their 1969 moon mission; NASA shared similar artifacts with more than 100 other countries. The purported... More »

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NASA • museum • Netherlands • moon • Holland • hoax • moon rock • Rijksmuseum • petrified wood

 Discovery Delayed 2nd Time 


Aug 25, 09 6:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - NASA called off another launch attempt for the shuttle Discovery, scheduled for early tomorrow, due to a broken valve in the craft’s liquid propellant system, Space.com reports tonight. It’s the second time the mission has been postponed in less than 24 hours: Storms early this morning forced... More »

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NASA • Cape Canaveral • Discovery space shuttle • thunderstorms • Discovery • launch window

(Newser) - An amino acid necessary to the construction of proteins, and therefore life on Earth, has been found in a comet that passes through our solar system, Space.com reports. Glycine was found in samples picked up by a NASA spacecraft in 2004. The discovery suggests that life’s building blocks... More »

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NASA • life • comet • Stardust • spacecraft • amino acids • glycine • panspermia

(Newser) - With all the hoopla of the Apollo anniversary safely behind us, a White House panel is ready to deliver a sobering assessment of the nation's current moon plans: They're too expensive. The panel, set up by President Obama to review NASA's human space flight program, says the agency's budget is... More »

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NASA • space exploration • astronauts • moon • rockets • outer space

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