NASA powered down the space shuttle Discovery for a final time Friday, more than 28 years after the agency's retired fleet leader first came alive. The vehicle was "unplugged" inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA shuts doors, pulls plug on shuttle Discovery
Posted by desidalal 157 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)NASA rover studying space radiation on way to Mars
Posted by desidalal 157 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
NASA's new Mars rover has already begun performing research in space, less than three weeks after launching on its eight-month cruise to the Red Planet.
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NASA and private ventures take next steps
Posted by desidalal 166 days ago (http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: SpaceX's Dragon capsule is due to visit the International Space Station in February, but that's just one of the steps that commercial ventures are taking to help out NASA.
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NASA rebuts talk of 2012 apocalypse
Posted by desidalal 166 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Despite the hoopla surrounding the date Dec. 21, 2012, the world is not at risk of coming to a halt, NASA says.
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NASA launches $2.5 billion rover to Red Planet
Posted by desidalal 179 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
NASA launches its next Mars rover, kicking off a long-awaited mission to see whether the Red Planet could have hosted microbial life.
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NASA wants to save moon poop...for science
Posted by desidalal 212 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Has bacteria in astronaut poop left on the moon been genetically altered? Did solar wind and ultraviolet radiation destroy the flag at Tranquility Base, landing site for the first Apollo moon mission? Are the lunar rovers dented with micrometeoroid impacts?
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NASA sets buffers for Apollo moon landing sites
Posted by desidalal 214 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
NASA has begun drafting guidelines to protect the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 landing sites, listing them as off-limits, and including ground-travel buffers and no-fly zones to avoid spraying rocket exhaust or dust onto aging, but historic, equipment.
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NASA: Pay now or pay later for space rides
Posted by desidalal 216 days ago (http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: If NASA can't provide as much support for U.S. spaceship-builders as it's hoping for, it'll have to keep paying the Russians $450 million for every year of delay, the space agency's No. 2 official says.
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