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Solar Impulse leaves St. Louis
Solar Impulse leaves St. Louis
After 10 days in St. Louis, the first plane that can fly day or night without fuel is on its way to Cincinnati. Solar Impulse started its cross-country trip in Northern California on May 3. It arrived in St. Louis on June 4. The plane took off from Lambert Airport early Friday. After a stop in Cinc

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China marks decade of human spaceflight
China marks decade of human spaceflight
China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face a more down-to-earth job that is perhaps equally challenging: Talking to young people about science. Three Chinese astronauts will take flight this we

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Chinese spacecraft blasts off with 3 astronauts
Chinese spacecraft blasts off with 3 astronauts
China's latest manned spacecraft successfully blasted off Tuesday on a 15-day mission to dock with a space lab and educate young people about science. The Shenzhou 10 capsule carrying three astronauts lifted off as scheduled at 5:38 p.m. (0938 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the ed

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Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip
Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip
Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported Thursday. That dose would, in some cases, exceed NASA's standards and is enough to raise an astronaut's cancer risk by 3 percent.

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Small Plane Hits Building Near DC
Small Plane Hits Building Near DC
Authorities say three people have minor injuries after a small plane hit an apartment building near Washington, DC. More than a dozen people had to evacuate the building. (May 31)

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Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite
Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite
Their project might not sound like much: The college students on Wednesday launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a soda can on a big yellow balloon. It went aloft to a height of 165 meters (yards) and then came back down attached to a parachute. Yet in this developing West African countr

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NASA: Spacewalk planned to fix space station leak
NASA: Spacewalk planned to fix space station leak
Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system of the International Space Station. The leak in a cooling system was discovered Thursday when "snowflakes" of ammonia were seen flying away from the station. Engineers on Earth were up ov

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Orbital Sciences to design satellite for NASA
Orbital Sciences to design satellite for NASA
Orbital Sciences Corp. has won a $50 million contract to build a new satellite for NASA, the space technology company said Monday. The Dulles, Va.-based company will create and test a new heliophysics science satellite that is responsible for investigating the connection between space weather and E

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An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise taxes and trim popular benefit programs, including Social Security and Medicare. The White House claims deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion, but Obama

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Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer
Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer
NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday. The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to

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Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun
Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun
It's the Martian version of spring break: Curiosity and Opportunity, along with their spacecraft friends circling overhead, will take it easy this month because of the sun's interference. For much of April, the sun blocks the line of sight between Earth and Mars. This celestial alignment — called

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Ex-NASA contractor arrested on plane to China
Ex-NASA contractor arrested on plane to China
A Chinese national who worked at NASA's Langley Research Center has been arrested on a plane bound for Beijing on charges of lying to federal agents. Bo Jiang made his initial appearance Monday in Norfolk federal court. It wasn't immediately clear whether Jiang had an attorney. U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf

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Mars Rover Shows Planet Could Have Had Life
Mars Rover Shows Planet Could Have Had Life
NASA scientists say tests on a Mars rock show the planet could have supported primitive life. The analysis was done by the rover Curiosity, which drilled into the rock, crushed it and tested a tiny sample. (March 12)

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Radar reveals apparent buried channels on Mars
Radar reveals apparent buried channels on Mars
The face of Mars is dotted with a maze of channels, pointing to possible ancient megaflood episodes. Now scientists peering below the surface have uncovered the first evidence of underground channels apparently created by flooding — a finding that's expected to further illuminate the role of wate

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China sets its 5th manned space mission for summer
China sets its 5th manned space mission for summer
China will send three astronauts to its orbiting space station this summer in a mission that's part of preparations to establish an even larger permanent presence above Earth. The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft will take flight sometime between June and August, the country's manned space program said in it

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Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby
Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby
It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around the red planet and come back home, hopefully with their bodies and marriage in one piece after 501 days of no-escape toget

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Report: Failure of Glory climate satellite unknown
Report: Failure of Glory climate satellite unknown
A group of experts investigating the launch failure of a NASA climate satellite has failed to come up with a reason. The Glory satellite plummeted into the Pacific in 2011 shortly after lifting off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along the California coast. The panel's report released Wednesday

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NASA rover preps for 1st test of drilled Mars rock
NASA rover preps for 1st test of drilled Mars rock
Fresh off drilling into a rock for the first time, the Mars rover Curiosity is prepping for the next step: dissecting the pulverized rock to determine what it's made of. Images beamed back to Earth on Wednesday showed a tablespoon of gray powder in Curiosity's scoop, giving scientists their first g

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NASA regains space station contact after outage
NASA regains space station contact after outage
The International Space Station regained contact with NASA controllers in Houston after nearly three hours of accidental quiet, the space agency says. Officials say the six crew members and station are fine and had no problem during the brief outage. NASA spokesman Josh Byerly said something went w

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Beechcraft emerges from bankruptcy protection
Beechcraft emerges from bankruptcy protection
Kansas plane maker Beechcraft, formerly Hawker Beechcraft, emerged Tuesday from bankruptcy protection freed from much of its debt and its unprofitable business jet operations. It's now focused on its turboprop and piston aircraft and its military work — but the country faces potentially massive d

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