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August 06, 2009 NASA'S Kepler Mission Spies Changing Phases in a Distant World

NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities. The discovery will be published Friday in the journal Science.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/may/HQ_M09-081_Earth_Science_Symposium.html
May 13, 2009

Twenty years ago NASA embarked on a revolutionary new mission for its Earth science program: to study our home planet from space as an inter-related whole, rather than as individual parts.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/apr/HQ_M09-056_Astro_tweets.html
April 07, 2009

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino is using Twitter to provide a unique, behind the scenes peek at the last weeks of his training for the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/mar/HQ_09-069_Exp19_Launch.html
March 26, 2009

The 19th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station launched into orbit Thursday morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant and U.S. software engineer Charles Simonyi lifted off at 6:49 a.m. CDT.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/mar/HQ_09-067_Microsoft_WorldWide_Telescope.html
March 24, 2009

NASA and Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday plans to make planetary images and data available via the Internet under a Space Act Agreement.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/mar/HQ_09065_ARES_hardware.html
March 19, 2009

After a seven-day, 2,917-mile journey, a train carrying the four motor segments for the Ares I-X rocket arrived Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The motor is the final hardware needed for the rocket's upcoming test flight this summer.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/feb/HQ_09-039_OCO_failure.html
February 24, 2009

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Tuesday from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/spaceweather_hazard.html
January 05, 2009

A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth.