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Backside of Saturn’s ring composite

Composite image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on May 30, 2010.
This image was made using images in the Planetary Data System. Contrast balance and adjustments were made to get to close to appr…

quantumaniac:

Here’s Your Chance to Use a Space Shuttle as a Ferry
NASA is tentatively targeting Friday, April 27 as the date of the historic ferryflight of Enterprise from the Washington, DC area to the New York City metropolitan area, if the w…

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Cosmic Train Wreck
Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/H. Inami
A galactic collision sparked a powerful “explosion” of star formation that until now had been hidden from view by a cloak of dense gases, as seen in a NASA’s Spi…

Ex-Flight Director Urges NASA to Kill Next Rocket System: discoverynews:

NASA’s Space Launch System…

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Runaway Star
Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
Like a hot-headed teenager, the star AE Aurigae is racing away from its birthplace after getting into a “fight” with its neighbors, as seen in a new picture from NASA’s Wid…

Documentation for Apollo and Gemini computing systems: thesimplebest:

A collection of AGC, AGS,…

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Ice prospecting robotic rover books a ticket for the Moon
While the Moon may or may not contain life forms, precious metals or even green cheese, recent satellite missions have indicated that it does nonetheless contain something that could …