Boeing Gets NASA’s First Order for Commercial Crew Launch
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA has placed its first order to have the Boeing Co. launch astronauts to the International Space Station.

Stonewall Jackson students present science project to NASA panel
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In a presentation to senior NASA officials last week, students from Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Roanoke said there were several times they thought they had come up with a solution, only to realize there was still more work to do.

NASA’s 1971 Apollo 15 Video Clip Shows UFO Parked On Lunar Surface …
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A YouTube UFO hunter claims to have found an old NASA video clip from the 1971 Apollo 15 mission which shows a flying saucer UFO – presumably an alien UFO – parked on the lunar surface apparently observing the Apollo 15 Moon landing.

New image of Ceres as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft circles the mysterious dwarf …
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Ceres — that dwarf planet with the mysterious white spots on it — won’t be a stranger for much longer. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting Ceres since March, and it’s currently working its way down to an expected June 3 orbit of just 2,700 miles.

Nasa reveals $2.3m plan to help new generation of supersonic planes take flight
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On October, 24 2003, the last flight of the Concorde came to an end, and with it, the promise that supersonic travel could transform the aviation industry.

Sticky situation: NASA to reduce bug splatter on planes with ‘lotus-leaf’ coating
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They might seem like a tiny obstacle for a 500-ton plane, but insects crushed by a flying aircraft reduce speed and increase fuel costs.

NASA: We live in a weak arm of the Milky Way
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Whatever it is, the latest exercise in mapping the Milky Way and our place in it by NASA scientists shows that not only are we a speck in the mass of stars, but a speck in the mass of stars living in a minor wing of the four-spiral galaxy we dare call …

Nasa’s fleet of fighter planes
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But these fast jets have a different mission – helping turn pilots into astronauts, and keeping a watchful eye on Nasa’s spacecraft and experimental aircraft. The video you see here, released on 27 May, shows the pilot of an F-15D Eagle fighter …

NASA’s Operation IceBridge concludes 2015 Arctic campaign
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Operation IceBridge wrapped up its seventh Arctic deployment on May 21, when NASA’s C-130 research aircraft with the mission’s researchers and instruments on board departed Thule Air Base in Greenland and headed to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in …

NASA-led volunteers map landslides by Nepal quakes
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Volunteers from NASA and other institutions used satellite data to pinpoint the locations of landslides, after the April 25 Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks.