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Manned space travel past, present, and future (images)
On the anniversary of the first manned space flight and NASA's space shuttle program, take a look at spacecraft for manned travel from the past and those coming in the future.
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ATV-3, now world's largest spacecraft, docks with space station (photos)
The European Space Agency's unmanned cargo spacecraft docks last week for the third time with the International Space Station, bringing supplies like experiment hardware, spare parts, food, and...
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The top 11 flying machines of 2011 (images)
It was a monumental year for aircraft and spacecraft, as Boeing's Dreamliner carried passengers for the first time and the space shuttle landed for the final time. Plus: drones, drones, drones.
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Gallery: Dawn spacecraft orbits giant asteroid - first photo
UPDATE - NASA released the first image of Vesta taken by the Dawn spacecraft after it entered into orbit around the planetoid which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
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Gallery: Messenger snaps Mercury in new detail
NASA's Messenger spacecraft has now been orbiting Mercury for three months and has given us a new perspective on the first planet from the sun.
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New findings from Galileo's Jupiter visit (photos)
The Galileo spacecraft was sent hurtling into the crushing atmosphere of Jupiter in 2003 but scientists are still making discoveries from the data it sent back.
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Messenger from Earth reaches Mercury orbit (photos)
The spacecraft Messenger is on a mission to get close and stay close to the innermost planet in the solar system to help NASA learn more about rocky planets--including our own.
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NASA returns to comet it attacked (photos)
NASA sends its second spacecraft to comet Tempel 1 to see the results from the first visitor which fired a probe that crashed into the comet's surface.
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NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory turns 1 (photos)
As it marks its first year in space, the spacecraft keeps sending back stunning, detailed images in an effort to better understand the sun's influence on Earth.
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NASA: It's snowing on our comet (photos)
NASA said analysis of the photos of Comet Hartley 2 which was visited by its EPOXI spacecraft on Nov. 4 show about 1-inch to 1-foot particles of snow shooting from the comet's surface.
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NASA reveals more mysteries of the moon (photos)
NASA spacecraft finds more evidence of water ice on the moon and also discovers many treasures including minerals, a natural bridge and abandoned spacecraft.
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To the Moon: Grumman, One Giant Landing for Mankind
Our third installment in our series is about Grumman, the company which built the Lunar Module (LEM) which made the historic manned landing on the Moon's surface on July 20, 1969.
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To the Moon: The Integrators
Our second installment in our series is about IBM and UNIVAC, the two primary computer systems integrators for the Apollo missions.
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Images: NASA's Kepler to seek Earth-like planets
A Friday evening launch will send the Kepler spacecraft out into the Milky Way on a mission to discover places that might support life as we know it.
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Images: Mysterious aurora, mighty storms on Saturn
Although the Cassini probe is working well past its scheduled retirement, the spacecraft is solving and revealing more secrets of the ringed planet.
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Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury
NASA's Messenger spacecraft makes second pass by Mercury as part of effort to slow down enough to orbit the barren planet in March 2011.
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The invisible frontier of our solar system
On October 19, NASA will launch a new spacecraft named IBEX, short for 'Interstellar Boundary Explorer.' Its mission, which will last about two years, is to refine what the Voyager spacecraft...
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Images: Saturn's beauty and the beast
The Cassini spacecraft which has been exploring Saturn for almost four years, tracks an electrical storm which has been raging for months.
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Images: Organic material found in Saturn moon geyser
Scientists surprised by what they found in samples taken by the Cassini spacecraft from a geyser plume spewed from the Saturn moon Enceladus.
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Photos: That's one small step for SpaceShipTwo
It's been redesigned, rehashed, and delayed. Richard Branson and Burt Rutan unveil mockups of their commercial spacecraft.
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