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May 23, 2013
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  • 12/03/2013 | World

    Mars had the right stuff for life, scientists find

    Seven months after NASA's rover Curiosity landed on Mars to assess if the planet most like Earth had the ingredients for life, scientists have their answer: Yes.

  • 18/03/2013 | World

    Second computer glitch shuts down NASA Mars rover

    The Mars rover Curiosity has had a second computer glitch, extending an unplanned work break for the NASA robot that discovered the first life-friendly chemistry beyond Earth, scientists said.

  • 03/12/2012 | World

    NASA's Mars rover finds traces of carbon - one essential for life

    NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to look for the chemical ingredients and environments for microbial life, has found traces of compounds containing carbon, an essential building block for life, scientists said today.

  • 06/12/2012 | World

    Private firm plans 'affordable' lunar mission for $1.5 billion

    Colorado start-up run by former NASA managers plans to conduct missions to the moon for about $1.5 billion per expedition, a fraction of what a similar government-run operation would cost, company officials said today.

  • 20/12/2012 | World

    NASA posts YouTube video debunking Maya 'Armageddon'

    NASA is so sure there will be a Dec. 22, 2012, it has already posted a YouTube video titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday."

  • 20/09/2012 | World

    Space shuttle Endeavour lands piggyback in California

    The space shuttle Endeavour, carried piggyback atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a cross-country trip to Los Angeles to begin its final mission as a museum exhibit.

  • 30/10/2012 | World

    NASA rover finds Mars' soil similar to Hawaii's

    In the first inventory of minerals on another planet, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity found soil that bears a striking resemblance to weathered, volcanic sand in Hawaii, scientists said.

  • 02/11/2012 | World

    Last NASA space shuttle becomes museum piece

    NASA's last space shuttle rolled out of a hangar in Florida and traveled down the road to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin a new life as a museum piece.

  • 19/08/2012 | World

    NASA's science rover Curiosity zaps first Martian rock

    The Mars rover Curiosity zapped its first Martian rock with a high-powered laser gun designed to analyze its mineral composition, and scientists declared their target practice a success.

  • 21/08/2012 | World

    Mars rover Curiosity gears up for Wednesday test drive

    NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to study if the Red Planet could have hosted life, will take its first test drive on Wednesday.

  • 22/08/2012 | World

    Mars rover Curiosity aces first test drive

    NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life.

  • 06/08/2012 | World

    NASA rover Curiosity makes historic Mars landing, beams back photos

    NASA's Mars science rover Curiosity performed a daredevil descent through pink Martian skies late to clinch an historic landing inside an ancient crater, ready to search for signs the Red Planet may once have harbored key ingredients for life.

  • 09/08/2012 | World

    NASA's Morpheus lander in fiery crash at Cape Canaveral

    NASA'S Project Morpheus lander, an experimental vehicle designed with a view toward future US space missions beyond Earth's orbit, crashed and burst into flames at the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida.

  • 17/08/2012 | World

    NASA unveils Mars rover Curiosity's travel plans

    NASA unveiled plans for its Mars rover Curiosity's first road trip, part of a two-year quest to determine if the planet most like Earth could ever have hosted microbial life, scientists said.

  • 27/04/2012 | World

    Space shuttle Enterprise makes final flight to NY

    The space shuttle Enterprise flew to New York from Washington today piggybacked atop a Boeing 747, making a dramatic flight along the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty to the delight of observers.

  • 06/06/2012 | World

    Space shuttle Enterprise docks at New York museum home

    The space shuttle Enterprise - named after the spaceship in Star Trek - floated past the Statue of Liberty on a barge and docked near its new home at a museum on New York's Hudson River.

  • 05/08/2012 | World

    NASA's Mars rover may not phone home right away

    NASA cheekily calls the Mars Science Lab's risky approach and landing attempt the "seven minutes of terror." In reality, the anxiety at mission control could last much longer.

  • 21/12/2011 | World

    Multinational crew blasts off for space station

    A trio of astronauts blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Wednesday on a mission to bring the International Space Station back up to full manpower after an August cargo launch accident disrupted flights.

  • 19/01/2012 | World

    NASA: 2011 was ninth-warmest year since 1880

    The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said.

  • 25/01/2012 | World

    Gingrich calls for moon base, space contests

    Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich called for a base on the moon and an expanded federal purse for prize money to stimulate private-sector space projects.

  • 14/11/2011 | World

    US, Russian crew blast off safely for space station

    Three astronauts blasted off today to return a full crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as Russia seeks to restore confidence in its space program after the crash of a cargo spaceship and several botched launches.

  • 26/11/2011 | World

    NASA rover launched to seek life on Mars

    An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida , launching a $2.5 billion nuclear-powered NASA rover toward Mars to look for life habitats there.

  • 05/12/2011 | World

    NASA confirms first planet in ‘habitable zone’

    The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientist said.

  • 24/09/2011 | World

    NASA satellite breaks up, plunges back to Earth

    A six-tonnes NASA science satellite pierced the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean and fell back to Earth, the US space agency said on Saturday, but it was not yet known where the remains landed.

  • 27/09/2011 | World

    Doomed satellite landed in Pacific, NASA says

    Debris from a defunct six-tonne NASA science satellite that crashed to Earth on Saturday fell harmlessly in a remote area of the South Pacific Ocean, NASA said.

  • 08/11/2011 | World

    Big asteroid has close encounter with Earth

    A black asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zoomed past Earth, delighting astronomers who trained telescopes on the ancient body in hopes of learning more about its composition and origin.

  • 05/08/2011 | World

    NASA launches Juno robot to explore Jupiter's birth

    An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, sending a robotic scout on its way to Jupiter to sniff out details about how the solar system formed.

  • 07/09/2011 | World

    NASA spacecraft to probe the inside of the moon

    More than 100 spacecraft have been to the moon, including six with US astronauts, but one key piece of information about Earth's natural satellite is still missing -- what's inside.

  • 19/09/2011 | World

    Defunct NASA satellite to crash to Earth this week

    A defunct NASA science satellite is expected to fall back to Earth on Friday, showering debris somewhere on the planet although scientists cannot predict exactly where, officials said.

  • 22/07/2011 | World

    With space shuttle era over, US robot set for Mars

    NASA moved to a new chapter in space exploration, a day after the end of its shuttle program, by announcing details of plans to determine if Mars has or ever had the ingredients for life.

  • 04/08/2011 | World

    NASA confirms Columbia’s debris found in Texas

    NASA confirmed today that a large piece of debris from space shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed in 2003, has been found in a drought-stricken Texas lake. The component of the ill-fated spaceship is one of its 18 gas tanks, the US space agency said.

  • 04/08/2011 | World

    NASA discovers evidence of flowing water on Mars

    NASA scientists have discovered fresh evidence that water is flowing on Mars during its warmest months, raising the likelihood that life could exist on the red planet, the agency said.

  • 15/07/2011 | World

    Astronaut welcomes China to space brotherhood

    A US astronaut on the final shuttle mission said China's first space station will be a welcome addition to the orbital brotherhood.

  • 20/07/2011 | World

    Hubble detects a tiny fourth moon around Pluto

    The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tiny fourth moon orbiting the distant icy dwarf planet Pluto, NASA said.

  • 21/07/2011 | World

    Atlantis landing puts end to the shuttle era

    The space shuttle Atlantis glided home through a clear moonlit sky today to complete a 13-day cargo run to the International Space Station and a 30-year odyssey for NASA's shuttle program.

  • 30/06/2011 | World

    NASA bids farewell to 'amazing' relic, the shuttle

    When the United States embarked on its shuttle program decades ago, it set out to build a workhorse vehicle that would make space travel routine and beat the Soviets during the Cold War struggle for dominance in space.

  • 08/07/2011 | World

    Atlantis launches on final US space shuttle mission

    Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed away from its seaside launch pad in Florida on the 135th and final flight in the 30-year-old US shuttle program.

  • 10/07/2011 | World

    Atlantis docks at space station on last mission

    US space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station to deliver a last batch of supplies to the orbiting outpost on the final flight of the US shuttle program.

  • 15/06/2011 | World

    NASA fuels shuttle for test before last launch

    Workers at the Kennedy Space Centre filled the fuel tank of the space shuttle Atlantis in a key test ahead of its scheduled launch next month on the final shuttle flight.

  • 16/06/2011 | World

    Black hole shreds star, sparking gamma ray flash

    A monster black hole shredded a Sun-like star, producing a strangely long-lasting flash of gamma rays that probably won't be seen again in a million years, astronomers reported on Thursday.

  • 23/06/2011 | World

    Astronauts practice for NASA's last shuttle launch

    Four US astronauts in bright orange spacesuits climbed aboard their spaceship to practice the launch of NASA's last space shuttle on a cargo run to the International Space Station.

  • 16/05/2011 | World

    Space shuttle Endeavour blasts off from Florida

    The US space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its final voyage which will deliver a pioneering physics experiment to the International Space Station.

  • 20/05/2011 | World

    US astronauts finish spacewalk outside station

    Two shuttle Endeavour astronauts floated outside the International Space Station for the first of four spacewalks to ready the outpost for operations after the US shuttle fleet is retired this summer.

  • 30/05/2011 | World

    Shuttle leaves space station to begin trip home

    Space shuttle Endeavour has departed the International Space Station, clearing the way for a final cargo run to the outpost before NASA retires its three-ship fleet.

  • 12/04/2011 | World

    NASA sending retired space shuttles to US museums

    The three retiring US space shuttles will be going on display at museums in Florida, California and Virginia, the US space agency NASA said.

  • 19/04/2011 | World

    NASA clears shuttle Endeavour for April 29 launch

    The shuttle Endeavour was cleared for a launch attempt on April 29 to deliver a new class of physics instrument to the International Space Station on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, officials said.

  • 06/05/2011 | World

    Shuttle launch slips again, no earlier than May 16

    The US space agency NASA delayed again, to no earlier than May 16, the date of shuttle Endeavour's launch for a servicing mission to the International Space Station, officials said.

  • 02/02/2011 | World

    Space telescope spots odd new solar system

    Astronomers have spotted a strange new solar system with small "puffy" planets packed in close orbit to their sun.

  • 04/02/2011 | World

    Giffords' husband to command space shuttle flight

    The astronaut husband of Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman critically wounded in an assassination attempt last month, will be aboard space shuttle Endeavour when it lifts off on its final mission in April, NASA said.

  • 14/03/2011 | World

    Space shuttle worker killed in fall at US launchpad

    A worker fell to his death at the space shuttle launch pad in Florida and NASA said it was investigating the accident.


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