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NASA Under-Sea Asteroid Research to Begin in October (PHOTOS)

The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project (NEEMO) will send a set of diving crew to live in Aquarius underwater research laboratory located near Key Largo, Florida during October to test the equipment and operational concepts needed for exploration to near-Earth asteroids.
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Confused spiders spin web in zero-gravity space (VIDEO)

NASA welcomed a pair of ‘spidernauts’ into space aboard its penultimate shuttle mission in May. How differently will spiders behave in space? This interesting investigation is part of a K-12 curriculum and students will be able to answer to such a question, when school is back in session.
The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey

Do distant galaxies sleep without forming new stars?

If some distant galaxies, after being awake many billions of years, do feel tired you could hardly blame them. But if they were caught sleeping 12 billion light years without forming stars what will you do?
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Mark Kelly Leaving NASA, Navy to Be By Gabrielle Giffords’ Side

Three weeks after landing the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of its final voyage, Captain Mark Kelly said he’ll be retiring from NASA and the U.S. Navy to be with his wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, as she recovers from gunshot wounds suffered in January, Reuters reported.
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Mark Kelly Hanging Up The Spacesuit For Good

Mark Kelly is going to retire from NASA and focus on writing a memoir with his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed in a well publicized homicide attempt earlier this year.
Astronaut Mark Kelly

Astronaut Mark Kelly Announces Retirement From NASA

Mark Kelly, the astronaut and husband of recovering Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, announced his retirement from the Navy and NASA Tuesday saying he plans to focus on his wife's recovery and work with her to pen a memoir.
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Goodbye Voyager! The spacecraft is all set to leave our solar system

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to leave the sun's territory to enter the inter-stellar space. NASA's twin spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Cassini reached edge of the solar system sooner than expected which means the boundary of solar system is smaller than what scientists had earlier speculated. Voyager 1's exit is expected to give astrophysicists new data accounts of life outside the solar system.
Saturn moons may hold potential life: Cassini NASA Helene close encounter

Saturn moons may hold potential life: Cassini NASA Helene close encounter

As NASA's Cassini project relayed images back after snapping photos of several of Saturn's 60 known moons. The images revealed lakes and rivers filled with liquid methane on Titan, Rhea with an atmosphere full of oxygen, and an ocean-like surface under a thick hydrocarbon atmosphere. The signs of water molecules and oxygen has given much speculation about life form existing on Saturn moons.

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