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NASA's Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure
06.06.13 - NASA's Orion crew module successfully passed its static loads tests on Wednesday.
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NASA, Craig Technologies Partnership Retains Crucial Capabilities
06.06.13 - NASA has entered into a partnership agreement with Craig Technologies to maintain an inventory of unique processing and manufacturing equipment for future mission support at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Lightfoot Reports on Current, Future NASA Initiatives
05.06.13 - NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot reported on the space agency's current and future initiatives during an employee briefing on June 4.
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NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
06.18.13 - NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.
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NASA Invites Media to View Space Launch System Progress
06.17.13 - NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier and other agency officials will debut a new machine for manufacturing NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and check on development progress with the heavy-lift rocket at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Friday, June 21.
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Exploration at NASA
› Learn more about the initiative
NASA is developing a first-ever mission to identify, robotically capture and redirect a small asteroid into a stable orbit in the lunar vicinity where humans can visit it.
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This is the beginning of a new era in space exploration where we will build the capabilities to send humans deeper into space than ever before.
› Voyages: Charting the Course for Sustainable Human Space Exploration
This report articulates NASA's multi-destination human space exploration strategy using a capability-driven approach.
