[Friday, May 1, 2009] On 11 May, Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch with a crew of seven to visit the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and carry out the fifth and final servicing mission.

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[Saturday, May 2, 2009] Today's successful launch of the UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket for the SL-3 Education launch is another successful step in developing the world's first commercial spaceport.

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[Sunday, May 3, 2009] Dennis Wingo commentary on why the appendices of the NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study should be released to the public. This report is in the public domain yet the appendices were not released and have since turned up on a pay-per use site.

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[Monday, May 4, 2009] Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away.

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[Monday, May 4, 2009] NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. If Spitzer could talk, here's how an interview with the observatory might go.

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[Monday, May 4, 2009] Eilene Marie Galloway, one of the world’s leading experts in space law and policy, died at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 102. Dr. Galloway resided in the District of Columbia for 78 years.

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[Tuesday, May 5, 2009] The Node 3 connecting module, built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, is the last element of a barter agreement by which ESA supplied NASA with International Space Station (ISS) hardware.

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[Tuesday, May 5, 2009] The Mars500 crew is now one-third of the way through their 105-day stay inside the isolation facility in Moscow. As ESA-selected crewmember Oliver Knickel reports in his latest diary entry, the past week has been dedicated to tests.

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[Tuesday, May 5, 2009] Two missions to study the cosmos, Herschel and Planck, are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center. The European Space Agency, leads both missions, with significant participation from NASA.

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[Tuesday, May 5, 2009] A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket successfully launched the Space Tracking and Surveillance System Advanced Technology Risk Reduction mission for the United States Missile Defense Agency at 1:24 p.m., PDT today.

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[Tuesday, May 5, 2009] NASA Acting Administrator Chris Scolese will brief the news media about the agency's fiscal year 2010 budget at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 7 which is expected to be $18.7 billion.

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[Wednesday, May 6, 2009] This technical document outlines NASA's plan to replace the Space Shuttle with Ares, its next generation space transportation system for crew and cargo travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

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[Wednesday, May 6, 2009] Scientists and engineers working on the world's largest ground-based astronomical project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have successful linked the two ALMA astronomical antennas to observe the planet Mars.

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[Thursday, May 7, 2009] The Obama Administration today announced the launch of an independent review of planned U.S. human space flight activities with the goal of ensuring that the nation is on a vigorous and sustainable path to achieving its boldest aspirations in space.

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[Thursday, May 7, 2009] NASA released its Fiscal year 2010 budget request today in the amount of $18.686 billion. The budget request represents an increase of $903.6 million, about 5 percent, above the amount provided NASA in the Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act.

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[Thursday, May 7, 2009] A NASA technology that was developed for an aerospace high-speed research program is now part of an implantable device for heart failure patients.

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[Thursday, May 7, 2009] NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7.

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[Friday, May 8, 2009] The pace of prelaunch activities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida picks up today with only three days remaining until liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

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[Friday, May 8, 2009] Scientists and engineers now creating new technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have realized they can be used to enhance the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing mission.

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[Friday, May 8, 2009] NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in June, is sharing updates about his training and flight on Twitter.

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[Sunday, May 10, 2009] Space Shuttle Program managers are giving the green light for Monday's launch of shuttle Atlantis. The program's mission management team met late Saturday afternoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to evaluate how countdown activities were progressing.

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[Sunday, May 10, 2009] The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, a planetary nebula has been imaged as the final image.

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[Sunday, May 10, 2009] The purpose of this missive is to look at where many in society see our future going, and to show where space either supports the positive aspects or negates the negative ones.

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[Monday, May 11, 2009] Today at 2:01:56 EDT Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-125, launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the fifth servicing mission to Hubble and last by a space shuttle.

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[Monday, May 11, 2009] The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s upcoming space exploration mission is now complete following the installation of its payload fairing over the dual passengers of Europe's Herschel space telescope and the Planck observatory.

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[Monday, May 11, 2009] The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs is holding a five-day workshop on the applications of global navigation satellite systems in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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[Monday, May 11, 2009] The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.

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[Tuesday, May 12, 2009] The purpose of this market survey is to determine whether interested business concerns in the industry have the capability to fulfill one or more requirements of the current FATESS contract within the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST).

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[Tuesday, May 12, 2009] Zero Gravity Corporation will host its exclusive ZERO-G Weightless Experience for the very first time in Seattle, Washington on Sunday, June 28.

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[Tuesday, May 12, 2009] Now is the time to reduce the threat to both human spaceflight and satellites from destructive space debris. That viewpoint emerged from a major gathering of space experts at the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Space Debris.

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[Tuesday, May 12, 2009] Atlantis continued to move steadily closer to the Hubble Space Telescope today, and its crew made good use of the time to perform a thorough inspection of the shuttle’s heat shield.

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[Tuesday, May 12, 2009] Masten Space Systems completed their first vertical take-off, vertical-landing rocket flight demonstration Friday. The demonstration proved out the design and controls of the 730lb rocket-powered vehicle, known as XA-0.1B-750 or "Xombie".

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[Wednesday, May 13, 2009] Nearly 25 years after the first Canadian astronaut flew into space and only weeks before two Canadian space veterans launch to the Space Station, Industry Minister Tony Clement and CSA President Steve MacLean introduced Canada’s newest astronauts.

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[Wednesday, May 13, 2009] The Hubble Space Telescope has been captured by space shuttle Atlantis' robotic arm. Using views from a camera centered in a structure where the telescope will be berthed, McArthur will lower Hubble into a special cradle.

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[Wednesday, May 13, 2009] Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's outer edges.

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[Wednesday, May 13, 2009] Although engineers, scientists and manufacturers are still in the process of building all of the instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they had to figure out long ago, how it was going to "unfold" in space.

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[Thursday, May 14, 2009] The European Space Agency launched the Herschel and Planck telescopes from Kourou, French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket. Herschel with gather data on the formation of the stars and galaxies while Planck will studies relic radiation from the the Big Bang.

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[Thursday, May 14, 2009] The Hubble Space Telescope can now see farther into space and across a wider spectrum of colors, thanks to the work done during the first spacewalk of the STS-125 mission.

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[Thursday, May 14, 2009] Former astronaut and retired Marine Major General Charles F. Bolden is expected to meet with President Obama Monday and appears set to become NASA's Next administrator according to both NASA Watch and MSNBC.

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[Friday, May 15, 2009] In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope.

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[Friday, May 15, 2009] This weekend the world's largest rocket competition finals will be held at Great Meadow, Virginia. The competition will bring together over a 100 teams from around the country vying for over $60,000 in scholarships and other prizes.

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[Saturday, May 16, 2009] Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel completed the third spacewalk of Atlantis' mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in 6 hours, 36 minutes, stepping smoothly through their difficult tasks.

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[Sunday, May 17, 2009] In the sixth longest spacewalk in history, Astronauts Mike Massimino and Michael Good tackled the intricate task of removing and capturing 111 screws to be able to revive the Hubble Space Telescope's two-dimensional spectroscopy capability.

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[Monday, May 18, 2009] Astronaut Scott Parazynski - in the midst of a historic summit bid at Mount Everest - is carrying some small pieces of moon rock as he climbs to the top of the highest spot on Earth.

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[Monday, May 18, 2009] "Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts" is a new book produced by NASA and Abrams Books that provides a unique perspective of the historic program that took people to the moon nearly four decades ago.

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[Monday, May 18, 2009] As the crew completes their sixth week inside the isolation facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, Russia, ESA-selected Mars500 crewmember Cyrille Fournier reports back on their latest activities.

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[Monday, May 18, 2009] Human hands have touched the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. Astronauts Andrew Feustel and John Grunsfeld spent seven hours and two minutes putting the finishing touches on the telescope in the final spacewalk from a space shuttle airlock.

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[Tuesday, May 19, 2009] The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search for intelligent signals from space.

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[Tuesday, May 19, 2009] Scott Parazynski whose flown in space five times and tried last year to climb Mt. Everest before an injury forced him to give up his bid, today successfully summited Mt. Everest becoming the first astronaut to do so.

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[Tuesday, May 19, 2009] NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 4:55 p.m. PDT from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island, Va. (Watch launch video)

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[Wednesday, May 20, 2009] NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the first test of the Ares I rocket's three main parachutes Wednesday. The parachutes are designed to slow the rapid descent of the rocket's first-stage motor, permitting its recovery for future use.

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[Wednesday, May 20, 2009] Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 and were surprised to find that its outer parts have been stripped away by still unknown effects.

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[Wednesday, May 20, 2009] A NASA study indicates that an intense asteroid bombardment nearly 4 billion years ago may not have sterilized the early Earth as completely as previously thought. The asteroids, some the size of Kansas, possibly even provided a boost for early life.

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[Wednesday, May 20, 2009] ESA today presented the six individuals who will become Europe's new astronauts. The new recruits will join the European Astronaut Corps and start their training to prepare for future missions to the International Space Station, and beyond.

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[Wednesday, May 20, 2009] NASA's Mission Control gave the Expedition 19 astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station a "go" to drink water that the station's new recycling system has purified.

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[Thursday, May 21, 2009] We have three exclusive videos from astronaut Scott Parazynski's summiting of Mt. Everest. The videos show Scott Parazynski and IMG climbers reach the summit of Mt. Everest on 20 May 2009 at 3:55 am local time. Video by Danuru Sherpa of Phortse, Nepal.

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[Thursday, May 21, 2009] Astronomers have discovered a unique double-star system that represents a "missing link" stage in what they believe is the birth process of the most rapidly-spinning stars in the Universe -- millisecond pulsars.

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[Thursday, May 21, 2009] NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. (With four videos)

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[Thursday, May 21, 2009] One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.

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[Thursday, May 21, 2009] Things are going well out in the cold space between Saturn and Uranus where New Horizons is now. We're deep in planning for our spacecraft's annual checkout this summer, which begins on July 7.

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[Friday, May 22, 2009] Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew will stay in space another day after bad weather prevented them from landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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[Friday, May 22, 2009] From views of spectacularly layered cliff walls and sulfate-rich rock to the detection of tiny hematite "blueberries" and probable meteor debris, the Mars rover Opportunity's two-year exploration of Victoria Crater has yielded a wealth of information abou

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[Saturday, May 23, 2009] President Obama today nominated retired Major General Charles Bolden as NASA's next administrator. Along with Bolden he nominated Lori Garver to be named Deputy Administrator.

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[Saturday, May 23, 2009] Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew will stay in space another day after bad weather prevented them from landing Saturday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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[Sunday, May 24, 2009] Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed at 8:39 a.m. PDT Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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[Tuesday, May 26, 2009] Using instruments aboard the Deep Impact spacecraft, a team of astronomers and astrobiologists has devised a technique to tell whether such a planet harbors liquid water, which in turn could tell whether it might be able to support life.

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[Tuesday, May 26, 2009] NASA is taking further steps to engage undergraduate and graduate students in NASA science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, research and interactive opportunities.

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[Tuesday, May 26, 2009] A critical series of ground tests are scheduled to begin this week at Kennedy Space Center to confirm that Ares I-X will behave as predicted as it lifts off the pad and powers through the initial stage of flight in a demonstration flight later this year.

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[Wednesday, May 27, 2009] The International Space Station crew is awaiting the arrival of three new members that will usher in an era of six-person crews aboard the orbiting laboratory. Watch the launch.

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[Wednesday, May 27, 2009] NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa submitted the winning entry, "Curiosity."

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[Wednesday, May 27, 2009] An international team of radio astronomers have discovered the secret explosion of a massive star, a new supernova, in the nearby galaxy M82.

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[Wednesday, May 27, 2009] Using new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.

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[Thursday, May 28, 2009] Researchers have conducted the first global analysis of the health and productivity of ocean plants, as revealed by a unique signal detected by a NASA satellite.

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[Thursday, May 28, 2009] NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic "ghost" lurking around a distant supermassive black hole. This is the first detection of such a high-energy apparition, and scientists think it is evidence of a huge eruption produced by the black hole.

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[Thursday, May 28, 2009] Virgin Galactic today announces the successful completion of the first phase of tests of the rocket motor that will propel space tourists, scientists and payloads into space. (With two videos)

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[Thursday, May 28, 2009] A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known.

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[Friday, May 29, 2009] Last week's launch of the new International Space Station (ISS) Photosynths was the result of 18 months of dedicated work by a great team of people across the Agency and at Microsoft.

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[Friday, May 29, 2009] A telescope designed by a University of Miami physicist and an international team of collaborators has produced the clearest images of starburst galaxies, revealing a new picture of the universe in its early stages.

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[Friday, May 29, 2009] Using new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.

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[Friday, May 29, 2009] Arizona State University researchers and scientists have created two new features for Google Earth 5.0, the popular online application that lets users tour Earth, the starry sky, and the Red Planet Mars.

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[Friday, May 29, 2009] NASA's Centennial Challenges Program and the Spaceward Foundation will hold the 2009 Power-Beaming Challenge, part of Spaceward's Space Elevator Games, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on July 14. (With video)

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[Friday, May 29, 2009] This directive establishes a hybrid system of English and International System of Units (commonly known as SI, Systeme Internationale, and Metric) with English being the primary and default unit of measure of and throughout the Constellation Program (CxP)

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[Saturday, May 30, 2009] The robot that scientists deployed last year into ice-covered Lake Bonney in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys isn't small.

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