NASA's future astronauts will ride to space on the Constellation Program's new generation of spacecraft, the Ares I and Ares V rockets and the Orion crew capsule.
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NASA Selects 'MAVEN' Mission to Study Mars Atmosphere
NASA has selected a Mars robotic mission that will provide information about the Red Planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before.
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NASA Tests Lunar Robots and Spacesuits
NASA robotic vehicles and their developers braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings on sweeping dunes near Moses Lake, Washington to prepare for future lunar expeditions.
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What Goes Up, Must Come Down
NASA won't send anything into space that needs to return -- without a parachute.
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Software Maps Safe Processing Techniques
Software developers are using game-making technology to show NASA the best way to prepare spacecraft for orbit.
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Orion Scale Model Tested in the Water
Scale models of the Orion crew exploration vehicle recently were tested at NASA?s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, or NBL, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and at a wave tank at Texas A&M University in College Station.
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NASA Selects Mission to Study Mars Atmosphere
09.15.08 - NASA has selected a Mars robotic mission that will provide information about the Red Planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before.
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NASA Conducts First Test On New Motor For The Ares I Rocket
09.11.08 - Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed first-round testing of a critical motor for NASA's new Ares I rocket.
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NASA's Ares I Rocket Passes Review To Reach Critical Milestone
09.10.08 - NASA has taken a major step toward building the nation's next generation launch vehicle with Wednesday's successful completion of the Ares I rocket preliminary design review.
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Gilbrech to Hold Media Briefing at National Space Symposium
03.3108 - The briefing will be at 1:15 p.m. MDT on April 8 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Enhanced Radar Imagery of Lunar South Pole
02.27.08 - How do you survive where there's no water or wind and sometimes no sunlight for weeks? The answer could be a fuel cell that works in reverse.
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