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here's some of the stories trending this

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week at NASA the SpaceX Dragon

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spacecraft is loaded with more than

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5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments

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for delivery to the International Space

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Station on crs 5 the company's fifth

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resupply mission to the ISS one of the

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experiments the cloud aerosol transport

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system or cats is designed to study the

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global distribution of clouds and

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aerosols in our atmosphere launched from

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cape canaveral air force station is no

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earlier than january 10 new astrophysics

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findings presented by nasa researchers

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january fourth through eighth and the

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225th meeting of the american

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astronomical society in seattle included

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the largest Hubble Space Telescope image

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ever assembled a sweeping bird's-eye

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view of a portion of m31 the Andromeda

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galaxy even though m31 is over two

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million light years away Hubble was

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powerful enough to resolve individual

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stars in a 61,000 Lightyear long stretch

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of the galaxy's pancake shaped disk

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never before had astronomers been able

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to see individual stars inside an

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external spiral galaxy over such a large

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contiguous area meanwhile the total

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number of verified exoplanet finds by

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NASA's Kepler space telescope has been

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up to 1,000 after researchers using

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Kepler data validated that eighth planet

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candidates spotted by the telescope are

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in fact planets three of the planets are

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located in their sun's habitable zone

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the range of distances from the host

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star where liquid water might exist on

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the surface of an orbiting planet of

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those three two are likely made of rock

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like Earth a January eighth media

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briefing at NASA headquarters in

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Washington preview the upcoming soil

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moisture active passive mission

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scheduled to launch January 20 nights

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from Vandenberg Air Force Base in

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California the mission will provide the

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most accurate highest resolution global

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measurements of soil moisture ever

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obtained from space and will enhance our

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understanding of the processes that link

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Earth's water energy and carbon cycles

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nasa administrator charlie bolden got a

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first-hand look at work being done on

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advanced woven material used on the

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agency's Orion spacecraft during the

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January 9th visit to bally ribbon mills

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in Valley Pennsylvania the company a

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leader in high-performance

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multidimensional woven materials is

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leading the multifunctional thermal

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protection system padding used to

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insulate and protect NASA's Orion

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spacecraft Orion will take astronauts on

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the journey to Mars and return them

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safely to earth with the help of this

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technology NASA associate administrator

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for science and astronaut John Grunsfeld

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was on hand at a preview event for the

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smithsonian national air and space

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museum's new exhibit outside the

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spacecraft 50 years of extra vehicular

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activity the exhibit opened January aid

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to commemorate the 50th anniversary of

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the first two spacewalks in history both

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in 1965 on March 18th of that year

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soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became

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the first person to walk in space

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followed by u.s. astronaut edward white

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on jun 3rd during the Jimmy for mission

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Grunsfeld has performed eight spacewalks

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to service and upgrade NASA's Hubble

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Space Telescope and that's what's up

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this week @nasa for more on these and