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Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific Process
08.05.08 - Phoenix Mars mission scientists spoke today on research in progress concerning an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory aboard NASA's Phoenix Lander.
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NASA Confirms Liquid Lake On Saturn Moon
07.30.08 - NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets—Titan and Enceladus.
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Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans
07.30.08 - Less than a month after launch, the new NASA-French space agency Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps.
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Phoenix Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
07.31.08 - Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample.
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Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit 'Surgery'
07.23.08 - When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit 'surgery' on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope.
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EAA AirVenture 2008
07.28.08 - NASA and Administrator Mike Griffin join aviation enthusiasts and aerospace pioneers at EAA AirVenture 2008 in Oshkosh, Wis.
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California Wildfires Continue to Burn Out of Control
07.01.08 - Numerous wildfires continue to burn out of control throughout California.
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Rocketing Through Water
07.08.08 - Champion swimmer Michael Phelps knows swimsuits; NASA researcher Steve Wilkinson knows drag reduction. Put them together, and you get record-breaking Olympic trials.
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NASA Launches OSTM/Jason 2
06.20.08 - A new oceanography satellite launched on a globe-circling voyage to continue charting sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change.
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Introducing the Spacesuit of the Future
06.12.08 - NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, to develop a new spacesuit that future astronauts will wear to the moon.
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Welcome Home, Discovery!
The STS-124 mission delivered the main segment of Japan's laboratory to the International Space Station.
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GLAST Launches on Gamma Ray Mission
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope will answer questions about supermassive black hole systems, pulsars and the origin of cosmic rays.
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NASA's Swift Catches a Star Going 'Kaboom!'
05.21.08 - Thanks to NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers have seen a star actually blow up.
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Joint NASA-French Satellite to Track Sea Level, Climate
05.20.08 - A satellite that will help scientists better monitor and understand rises in global sea level, study the world's ocean circulation and its links to Earth's climate is undergoing final preparations.
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Chandra Uncovers Youngest Supernova in Our Galaxy
05.14.08 - At a mere 140 years old, supernova remnant G1.9+0.3 is the youngest in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO!
05.01.08 - NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm
04.29.08 - Cassini watches as a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth.
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Every Day is Earth Day on the Space Station
04.21.08 - There may be only one place in the universe which can be the subject of 300,000 and counting photos and still never get old.
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Powerful Antenna Attached to NASA's GLAST Satellite
04.21.08 - The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft.
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Bob Charles
04.18.08 - Every day is Earth Day for Bob Charles, Langley's energy manager for the past five years.
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