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Students and engineers participate in a prelaunch briefing

Small Satellites Soar in High-Altitude Demonstration

Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight.

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Binary Colloidal Alloy Test-C1 setup in the Japanese Experiment Module Pressurized Module. (NASA)

Weekly Recap From the Expedition Lead Scientist

Expedition 36 is hard at work 200-plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.

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Scott Luthcke

Scott Luthcke - Weighing in on Ice Sheet Weight

Geophysicist Scott Luthcke finds weighing the ice sheets is sometimes easier than coaching his three daughters in field hockey.

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J. Bryan Blair

James 'Bryan' Blair - Looking for the Next Mountain

Mathematician-turned-instrument scientist James "Bryan" Blair takes an unconventional approach and is always looking for that next mountain to climb.

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ATV-4

Expedition 36 Update: June 18, 2013

The station's Expedition 36 crew opened the hatch to the "Albert Einstein" Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 at 4:40 a.m. EDT Tuesday.

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iss036e006586: Astronaut Luca Parmitano

Expedition 36 Update: June 17, 2013

The station's Expedition 36 crew kicked off the workweek with spacewalk preps, telerobotics and activities related to a recently arrived cargo ship.

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This simulated view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the expected positions of Saturn and Earth on July 19, 2013, around the time Cassini will take Earth's picture.

Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth From Deep Space

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19.

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Rare Clear View of Alaska

Rare, nearly cloud-free image of the state of Alaska, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite on June 17, 2013. Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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First American Woman in Space

Mission Specialist (MS) Sally Ride sits in the aft flight deck mission specialist's seat during deorbit preparations for the STS-7 mission. Image Credit: NASA
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