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See Mercury at Sunset
Over the next few evenings, Mercury and Jupiter will be visible to the naked eye... if you know where to look. By the evening of March 17th, Mercury should be well above any distant trees or buildings.
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HYTHIRM Gets the Picture -- Again
Langley's HYTHIRM or Hypersonic Thermodynamic Infrared Measurements team captured a thermal image of space shuttle Discovery going 18 times faster than a bullet after the STS-133 mission.
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See Discovery and the ISS From the Ground →
There's a very good potential opportunity to view the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station the evening of Tues., March 8.
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Langley Continues to Keep an Eye on Discovery
Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center are back on the job watching over the space shuttle Discovery during its last mission.
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First Test Orion Crew Module Shipped Out
NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers shipped the first Orion crew module spacecraft structure from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility on Feb. 10.
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Engineers Assemble Giant 3-D Space Puzzle
Piece by piece a team of NASA researchers put together a huge composite and metal structure that looked a lot like high-tech tinkertoys on steroids.
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Changes at Langley Linger Long After Columbia Accident
The specter of Columbia's last Earth entry on Feb. 1, 2003, still haunts those of us who scrambled in the days, weeks and months that followed to understand what happened.
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VIDEO: Orion LAS Arrival
The Orion Launch Abort System, or LAS, pathfinder returned home to NASA Langley on Monday for a short stay as it makes its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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Sensors to Guide Spacecraft to Safe, Distant Landings
NASA is developing technologies that will allow landing vehicles to automatically identify and navigate to a safe landing site.
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Ping Pong Balls to Float Crew Capsule Simulator
When students proposed using ping-pong balls to keep an Orion mockup afloat, NASA engineer David Covington laughed and thought, 'That's the most awesome thing I've heard in a long time!'