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Station Crew Off Duty Tuesday, Soyuz Lands Monday
05.14.13 - The three Expedition 36 crew members on the station enjoyed some off duty time Tuesday. The Expedition 35 crew landed in Kazakhstan Monday.
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Entrepreneur Giving Shuttle Truss New Uses
05.13.13 - Former shuttle engineer designing solar arrays, mobile cellphone towers using shuttle processing truss.
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Mahasen (Northern Indian Ocean)
05.17.13 - NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen’s rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16.
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Satellites See Double Jeopardy for SoCal Fire Season
05.13.13 - New insights into two factors that are creating a potentially volatile Southern California wildfire season come from an ongoing project using NASA and Indian satellite data by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; and Chapman University, Orange, Calif.
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Expedition 35 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
05.13.13 - The Expedition 35 crew landed their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. EDT Monday after undocking from the station at 7:08 p.m.
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Impacts of Strong Solar Flares
05.13.13 - Some people worry that a gigantic "killer solar flare" could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible.
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Astronauts Complete Spacewalk, Station Changes Command
05.12.13 - Two astronauts completed a spacewalk to repair an ammonia leak on Saturday. The station changed command during a ceremony held on Sunday.
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NASA Researchers Sniff Out Alternate Fuel Future
05.13.13 - What's in the exhaust of alternative jet fuels is a must-know to be sure it would actually be better than what aircraft use today.
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Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to be Displayed in Houston
05.10.13 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and space shuttle mockup to become centerpiece of new exhibit at Space Center Houston visitor center near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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Expedition 35 Update: May 10, 2013
05.10.13 - Station managers and international partners approved plans Friday for Saturday spacewalk to troubleshoot ammonia coolant leak.
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Hubble Tells a Tale of Galactic Collisions
05.10.13 - 2MASX is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy which emits a tremendous amount of light at infrared wavelengths. Scientists connect this to intense star formation.
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More Webb Telescope Mirrors Delivered
05.10.13 - Another delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight mirrors arrived at a NASA facility during the week of April 29, 2013.
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Weekly Recap From the Expedition Lead Scientist
05.13.13 - Expedition 35 is hard at work 200-plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.
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Successful Launch of FORTIS on May 11
05.13.13 - NASA successfully launched the Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
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NASA Wins Prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards
05.09.13 - Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
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New Public Application of Landsat Images Released
05.09.13 - Google has compiled more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space into an interactive time-lapse experience.
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Expedition 35 Update: May 9, 2013
05.09.13 - Around 10:30 a.m. CDT on Thursday, the station crew reported seeing small white flakes floating away from an area of the P6 truss structure.
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NASA Develops Key to Cosmic Carbon's Evolution
05.14.2013 - Scientists now have the capability to systematically investigate the molecular evolution of cosmic carbon.
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Engineers Focus on Super-cold Propellants
05.09.13 - Engineers have devised tests and equipment to perfect storage in space for super-cold propellants.
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NASA-Built Nanosatellite Launch Adapter System Ready for Flight
05.15.2013 - Nanosatellites now have their own mass transit to catch rides to space and perform experiments in microgravity.