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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is NASA's lead center for the robotic exploration of space.

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"NASA's new Mars lander will travel to the Red Planet's far northern plains to break beneath its surface in the search of conditions favourable to life."

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"NASA is ready and willing to share the international space station (ISS) with other U.S. government agencies and commercial firms once construction of the $100 billion orbital outpost is finishe

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"Taking a step into the new frontier, NASA Ames Research Center, under the direction of Simon "Pete" Worden, has launched an island in Second Life..." Better late than never. Have

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"A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now." 'Wet M

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"Of course, "Keep money flowing to favored contractors and congressional districts" is not a formal NASA objective, but these words explain the agency's core problem." Tough talk f

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"Aside from being unattractive or an issue for human health, microorganisms can attack the structure of a spacecraft itself."

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"They found that two 45-minute exposures to bright light in the evening could help people adjust to a longer, Martian-style day."

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"Six teams from across the country are headed for a rumble in California on Saturday, where $250,000 in NASA prize money awaits the best robotic Moon dirt diggers."

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"...when they do get bigger, and can be used for solar system exploration, there’s another advantage that kicks in: methane can be found all throughout the solar system (or made easily from avail

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"At present, NASA is not permitted to carry advertising: it is a publicly-funded organisation, and selling advertising space is a commercial business. But Congressman Ken Calvert has pledged to [

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"When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? Should NASA employ DNA testing to weed out astronauts who might

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"BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively 'adopted' [...] last Friday. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to prepare for launch in

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"...now Nasa's Institute for Advanced Concepts (Niac) has fallen victim to a very down-to-earth problem - a lack of money." That sucks.

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"NASA can find and track most of the nearby asteroids that could hit and damage the Earth, but there is not enough money in its budget to finish the project within a 15-year deadline mandated by

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"On Feb. 25, 2007 there was a transit of the Moon across the face of the Sun - but it could not be seen from Earth." The STEREO-B probe caught it, though. Watch this video if your mind needs

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"...the company has set its sights on something much, much bigger: a project to assemble full-blown space villages at a work site between Earth and the moon, then drop them to the lunar surface,

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"These 12-foot (3.65 meter) diameter inflatable units could be used as building blocks for a future lunar base. Right now, a prototype is tested at NASA's Langley Research Center." Er, aster

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"Life on Jupiter's moon Europa is just as feasible as life on Mars and worthy of NASA's attention, scientists have argued." Unfortunately it's a somewhat bigger distance away, too.

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"NASA and Virgin Galactic announce a ground breaking and exciting agreement between the two parties to collaborate in future manned space technology." Blimey. He's come a long way since the

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“At a time when the need has never been greater, we are faced with an Earth-observation program that will dramatically diminish over the next five to 10 years...”

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