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NASA details plans to pluck rock off asteroid, explore it
NASA is aiming to launch a rocket to an asteroid in five years and grab a boulder off of it — a stepping stone for an eventual trip sending humans to Mars. More
Porn and movies, not tech secrets, found on Chinese spy suspect's NASA laptop
The Chinese national taken into custody on an airplane waiting to take off for home had pornography and illegally downloaded movies on his NASA computer, not government secrets, reports say. He is now set to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating NASA computer rules. More
Russia charging NASA $70 million per rocket seat
NASA is blaming Congress for the need to pay $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space. More
One flight closer to space tourism
Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
U.S. plans to drop gray wolves from endangered list
The planned ruling would eliminate protection for the top predators, but scientists and conservationists say the proposal is flawed. Federal authorities intend to remove endangered species protections for all gray wolves in the Lower 48 states, carving out an a exception for a small pocket of about 75 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a draft document obtained by The Times. More

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Has Just Arrived Where Ancient Water Likely Existed
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Curiosity Rover Could Force Scientists to Rethink How Mars Lost Its Water
NASA's Curiosity rover has spent the past twelve years trundling around Mars, and it has been so successful the Perseverance rover uses the same underlying design. It doesn't have the rock ...
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New insights into Mars’ vanishing water mystery from Curiosity rover
Did you know that Mars wasn't always the cold planet we imagine today? Evidence from the Curiosity rover suggests that billions of years ago, Mars was a much warmer and wetter place – a world ...
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