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1. Space shuttle Discovery flying final mission for NASA
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... robot assistant to the International Space Station. Two spacewalks are also planned during the shuttle's week-long stay at the orbiting lab. Before docking, Discovery will perform a slow 360-degree ...

2. Astronauts describe life on International Space Station
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BY SUZANNE PRESTO VOA NEWS Three crew members of the International Space Station are back on Earth after spending most of the past six months living aboard the orbiting laboratory. Hours after landing, ...

3. Astrophysicists Lyman Page and David Spergel win Shaw Prize for pioneering work on NASA satellite
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... of the most advanced measuring devices ever created for studying the remnant hiss from the Big Bang creation of the universe. NASA launched the sun-orbiting probe in 2001, and it was renamed in 2002 after ...

4. NASA’s Discovery shuttle on mission to bring exercise machine to International Space Station
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... is carrying nearly 8,000 kilograms of supplies, including a series of new science experiments to be conducted in space. Some of the experiments focus on studying how orbiting in space can affect the human ...

5. NASA accomplishes lift off
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... operation on the orbiting outpost, which is almost complete. Endeavour is carrying a connecting node, Tranquility Node 3, and the Cupola, a robotic control station with six windows around its sides ...

6. Budget cuts end NASA’s plan to put astronauts back on moon
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... that will get a boost in the NASA budget is earth science research, a new orbiting carbon observatory to replace the one lost on launch last year, and investment in a heavy-lift launcher. In all, the proposed ...

7. NASA discovers five new planets with Kepler Space Telescope
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... orbiting distant stars. Kepler was designed to look for planets like Earth, but the first discoveries are much bigger planets - four of them bigger than Jupiter, and a fifth roughly the size of Neptune. ...

8. Science magazine picks Ardipithecus ramidus as breakthrough of the year
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... magazine's notable breakthroughs of the past year focused on astronomy and space. The journal cited the astronauts' service call to the Hubble Space Telescope, which gave the orbiting observatory a new ...

9. Planets like Earth found in other solar systems
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BY JESSICA BERMAN VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — An international team of astronomers has detected at least four new planets orbiting two distant stars very similar to our Sun. The discovery raises the possibility ...

10. Atlantis shuttle astronauts hold press conference from International Space Station
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CHRIS SIMKINS VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — Astronauts aboard the orbiting space station and the shuttle Atlantis spent most of the day relaxing after long hours of unloading cargo and working on building ...

11. Trenton's N.J. State Museum Planetarium reopens to public Sept. 12 following major upgrade
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... of the first planet orbiting another star, we now know that planets are not unique to our Solar System. In fact, these "extra solar" planets now appear to be quite common. The Planetarium’s inaugural ...

12. U.S. shuttle returns to Earth after complex Hubble repair job
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... in the process of checking out the instruments," said Ed Weiler. "Everything is going very smoothly, no problems so far." Since it began orbiting the Earth in 1990, Hubble has provided much more information ...

13. Astronauts declare Hubble Mission a NASA victory
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... other enhancements this week. They had a reason for smiling. They successfully made unprecedented repairs to a telescope the size of a school bus while orbiting 560 kilometers above Earth. Astronaut ...