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  • The EUNIS team stands in front of the sounding rocket before its second launch on Nov. 6, 2007.

    EUNIS: Six Minutes in the Life of the Sun

    04.23.13 - The EUNIS experiment was successfully launched at 1:30 pm EDT on April 23, 2013 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Preliminary data shows that the experiment performed as planned.

  • Astronaut Tom Marshburn

    Expedition 35 Update: April 18, 2013

    04.18.13 - On the eve of a spacewalk, Expedition 35 wrapped up the installation of a communication system that will enhance the station's research capabilities.

    › Space Station Live Recap  |  › ISS Crew Timelines
  • J 2X engine test firing on April 4, 2013, at Stennis Space Center

    Hot Fire Tests Steer Space Launch System Engines

    04.22.13 - NASA has completed one chapter of next-generation rocket testing on the A-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center.

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  • Artist's impression of Starburst galaxy

    Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early Universe

    04.17.13 - Busy-bee galaxy seen churning out stars when our universe was just a baby.

  • Johnny Nguyen and Khoa Vo

    NASA Engineers Selected for Leadership Program

    04.17.13 - Two NASA engineers from the Kennedy Space Center were selected by the Asian-American Governments Executives Network to participate in a special leadership program.

  • Dan Johnston, left and David Lehman, right

    NASA Mars Orbiters Have New Project Managers

    04.17.13 - Two NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, both working long past their original prime missions, have new project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

  • Expedition 35 crew members

    Expedition 35 Update: April 17, 2013

    04.17.13 - The station's Expedition 35 crew rehearsed spacewalk procedures Wednesday and participated in research with potential benefits for people on Earth.

    › Space Station Live Recap  |  › ISS Crew Timelines
  • Inside the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn conducts a session of the ongoing Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, and Reorient, Experimental Satellites - Visual Estimation and Relative Tracking for Inspection of Generic Objects investigation. (NASA)

    The SPHERES Have Eyes

    04.18.13 - Space Station SPHERES robots don goggles for 3-D data collection and analysis in orbit.

  • This image shows the first holes into rock drilled by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity

    Three From JPL on Time Magazine 'Most Influential' List

    04.18.13 - On a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at the same California address, where they've led projects to study things that are not on Earth.

  • Spacewalker Pavel Vinogradov

    Spacewalkers Deploy Experiment, Install Navigation Aid

    04.19.13 - Two members of the International Space Station's Expedition 35 crew wrapped up a 6-hour, 38 minute spacewalk at 4:41 p.m. EDT Friday.

  • Workers unload NASA's IRIS spacecraft from a truck at the processing facility at Vandenberg where the spacecraft will be readied for launch aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket

    Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch

    04.17.13 - IRIS spacecraft arrives at VAFB for final preparations for a NET May 28 launch aboard a Pegasus rocket.

  • LDCM image of Arizona desert

    Eye Exam for LDCM  →

    04.16.13 - Once a satellite is in orbit, it's not ready to take measurements until a series of check-out procedures have been performed.

  • Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble called the magnetosphere. As it travels through space, a complex system of charged particles from the sun and magnetic structures piles up in front of it.

    NASA’s Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves

    04.16.13 - SLAMS, or short large amplitude magnetic structures, have been spotted in the froth of waves in front of Earthspace as it moves through the solar system. They create a magnetic mirror reflecting fast ion beams into space.

  • This June 1978 artist's concept shows an asteroid retrieval mission.

    The Long and Storied Path to Human Asteroid Exploration

    04.16.13 - This project would be the first to capture a small near-Earth asteroid and safely redirect it.

  • GRB 111209A exploded on Dec. 9, 2011. The blast produced high energy emission for an astonishing seven hours.

    Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray Bursts

    04.16.13 - Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a new class of gamma-ray bursts that likely arise from dying stars hundreds of times larger than the sun.

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    Astronauts to Explore an Asteroid

    04.16.13 - As NASA marked the anniversary of the president's exploration vision, news media were updated on the Orion spacecraft that could take astronauts to an asteroid.

  • Comet Tempel 1

    How to Target an Asteroid

    04.16.13 - The hunt is on for methods to aim a spacecraft at an asteroid.

  • This graphic shows when high frequency radio waves, such as those used for the Global Positioning System (GPS) travel through a disturbed layer of Earth’s electrically charged atmosphere, the ionosphere, they can be disrupted.

    Celebrating CINDI on Its Fifth Anniversary

    04.15.13 - On April 16, 2008, a suite of NASA instruments was launched to study a unique region of space: the electrically charged portion of the upper atmosphere called the ionosphere, a region crucial for radio communications.

  • Engineers prepare and install the Microshutter Array simulator onto the NIRSpec Engineering Test Unit at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

    NASA Engineers Rehearse Placement of Webb's Microshutters

    04.15.13 - Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. are currently rehearsing with the placement of the Webb's Microshutter Array into the NIRSpec.

  • NEOCam sensor

    NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

    04.15.13 - An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test.

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