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New Horizons Pluto Mission Suffered Scare

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So far everything went really well with the New Horizons spacecraft. Just end of last week we reported that NASA gave New Horizons an "All Clear" for the Pluto fly-by. Now a new report of an anomaly...

NASA Glad but Disappointed that No Obstacle in the Way of New Horizons

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NASA has announced that the New Horizons spacecraft got a final "all clear" as it speeds towards Pluto in its historic fly by mission on July 14. NASA has made the final adjustments of the New...

New Horizons Accelerates as Spacecraft Closes in on Pluto

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NASA released another update on the exciting New Horizons Pluto mission. With just two weeks to go before its historic July 14 fly by of Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft used the the accelerator...

Pyramid Found On Mars Built by An Ancient Civilization?

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On the 7th of May the NASA Curiosity Rover took some photographs in which a rock like structure has the shape of a pyramid. The pyramid is supposedly the size of a small car or it could be the tip of...

NASA’s New Horizons is Less than a Month Away from Pluto Flyby

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From the last NASA update we know that Pluto is bumpy according to the latest images of New Horizons. The Spacecraft is now less than a month away from the historic Pluto flyby. NASA’s New...

Philae Lander has Woken Up

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Last November a space probe named Philae landed on a comet as part of the Rosetta Mission of the European Space Agency ESA. Now after months of silence Philae has called home. The Philae lander has...

NASA’s Flying Saucer for Mars Landing Suffers Parachute Failure

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NASA simulated a second time a descent onto Mars using the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) or also known as Flying Saucer on Monday. All went well and NASA engineers had a lot to cheer...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Traverses Martian Terrain

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover slowly and steadily made its way up a steep path on the Martian landscape. This was after the goal seemed impossible to reach. It was over 70 feet of land that had to be...