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final preparations are being made to

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launch the lunar atmosphere and dust

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environment explorer or lady probe to

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study the structure and composition of

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the moon's atmosphere and determine

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whether dust is being lofted into the

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lunar sky lady will help us better

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understand

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other bodies in our solar system that

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are similar such as mercury some of the

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larger asteroids and even some of the

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moons of the outer planets nasa tv will

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carry the ladi launch from wallops

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flight facility friday night september

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6th an orbital sciences corporation has

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tips on their website for seeing the

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launch from spots around the washington

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the atlas v rocket that will send nasa's

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mars atmosphere and volatile evolution

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or maven spacecraft to the red planet

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arrived at port canaveral florida maven

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will be the first mission dedicated to

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searching for clues about what existed

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in the upper atmosphere of ancient mars

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i'm really looking forward to

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actually spending a long period of time

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up there helping to do some research get

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involved in the science during a press

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conference at johnson space center

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members of expedition 3839 the next crew

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headed to the international space

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station met the media

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astronauts rick mastracchio of nasa

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and russian cosmonaut mikhail turin will

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launch in their soyuz spacecraft from

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the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on

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in its first 10 years nasa's spitzer

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space telescope used its infrared vision

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to discover carbon spheres in space

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called bucky balls and the first light

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ever from a planet outside our solar

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system spitzer will start its second

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decade of observations helping scope out

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potential asteroid candidates for the

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agency's asteroid capture and

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redirection mission starting in october

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with a small near-earth asteroid named

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2009 db

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and in september nasa plans to wake up

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and use the wide-field infrared survey

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explorer or wise telescope for its

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asteroid hunting ability wise will look

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for asteroids suitable for exploration

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as well as those potentially hazardous

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to earth part of the successful

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near-earth object survey mission called

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neowise the telescope was put to sleep

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the largest 3d printed rocket injector

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nasa has ever tested blazed to life

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during a hot fire test that generated a

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record 20 000 pounds of thrust the

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successful test of the subscale injector

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made using additive manufacturing

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technology is a milestone in the

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agency's quest to use the advanced

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technology to make space hardware at

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reduced cost

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the complex part was made using just two

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pieces from a 3d printing machine

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compared to the 115 pieces used in

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at stennis space center workers are busy

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preparing the a1 test stand for new

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testing of the rs-25 engine the test

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stand is being outfitted with a piping

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system for liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen

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and other elements needed to test these

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engines that will power the core stage

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at langley research center a helicopter

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was dropped from about 30 feet at the

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center's impact research facility

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nasa the army navy and faa crashed the

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copter to test its improved seats and

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seat belts and to analyze new techniques

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and crash worthiness data the 30 mile

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per hour impact is considered severe but

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survivable under civilian and military

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the first batch of x-ray image data from

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nasa's black hole hunting nuclear

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spectroscopic telescope array or new

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star is publicly available via nasa's

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high energy astrophysics science archive

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research center

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the images taken from july to august

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2012 shortly after the spacecraft

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launched included an assortment of

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extreme objects including black holes

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there's a james webb space telescope

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mini-me at goddard space flight center

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the team of engineering students that

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built a one-sixth scale model as part of

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a mentoring program gained valuable

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hands-on experience in design and

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development of complex space systems

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there are plans to also use the model to

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help the public understand the

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challenges of advancing space science

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one year ago on august 30th 2012 the van

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allen probes were launched to study the

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van allen radiation belts around earth

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and space weather which can disrupt

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satellites gps communications and cause

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power grid failures the van allen probes

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will help researchers better design

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spacecraft that can survive the rigors

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the nasa family is mourning the loss of

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astronaut gordon fullerton who logged

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over 300 hours in space including the

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space lab 2 mission and sts-3 the only

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shuttle mission to land at white sands

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new mexico

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his 22 years as a test pilot at dryden

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flight research center included work

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with the f-15

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the x-38 and the x-43a

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fullerton had been in a california

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long-term care facility since having a

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stroke in 2009.

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he died august 21st at age 76.

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and that's this week at nasa for more on

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