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NASA Selects Two Technologies For Commercial Suborbital Tests
08.24.12 - NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program has selected two new technologies to fly on commercial reusable suborbital vehicles.
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41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View
08.22.2012 - Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems.
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To The Stars: NASA Selects Small Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Missions
08.09.12 - NASA has chosen three teams to advance the state of the art for small spacecraft in the areas of communications, formation flying and docking systems. The cutting-edge space technology flights are expected to take place in 2014 and 2015.
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Video: Mars Curiosity Event at Ames
08.08.12 - Nearly 7,000 people came to NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., to watch the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity land on Mars.
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Success for MSL Entry, Descent, & Landing Instrument
08.07.12 - When the Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, researchers for the MSL Entry, Descent, & Landing Instrument (MEDLI) were already cheering.
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NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
08.05.12 - NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
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Mars Science Laboratory Event Images →
08.05.12 - Event images from Ames' Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity event on Aug. 5, 2012.
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Destination Innovation - Episode 4 - CheMin
08.03.12 - The fourth episode of DI focuses on the CheMin instrument aboard the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA' s latest robotic explorer to visit Mars.
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NASA Hosts Social Media Events Across Seven Agency Field Centers
08.01.12 - NASA's social media followers at Ames Research Center and six other field centers will come together virtually at a NASA Social on Friday, Aug. 3.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
08.01.2012 - The Kepler team completed another monthly science data download over July 29-30, 2012.
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NASA Ames Celebrates Curiosity Rover's Landing on Mars
07.30.12 - NASA Ames will celebrate the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the Curiosity rover with a variety of media and public activities.
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Ames and the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity
07.27.12 - Find out about the numerous and exciting ways in which Ames is contributing to the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity!
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
07.24.2012 - As reported earlier, on July 14, 2012, the Kepler spacecraft experienced an anomaly in the reaction wheel assembly (RWA) of the Attitude and Determination Control Subsystem (ADCS).
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NASA Offers Condolences on the Passing of Sally Ride
07.24.12 - In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally K. Ride was a pioneer of a different sort.
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NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services
07.23.12 - NASA will exercise the fourth one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp., Lanham, Md., to provide supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The option is valued at about $60.3 million
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NASA Ames Researcher Receives Presidential Award
07.23.12 - President Obama has named a local researcher as a recipient of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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New NASA Supercomputer Facility Set to Advance Earth Research
07.23.12 - NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX).
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
07.20.12 - On July 14, 2012, the Kepler spacecraft experienced a disruption in science data collection due to a pointing error.
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NASA, JAXA Send Small Satellite into Space from ISS
07.18.12 - Engineers and student interns at NASA Ames are gearing up to support and witness what may be the most thrilling ride a nanosatellite has ever taken.
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Study Finds Heat is Source of ‘Pioneer Anomaly’
07.17.12 - Analysis shows the slight, but detectable effect of heat pushing back on NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 explains unexpected slowing of the spacecraft.