There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet marathon Tuesday — 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) – with a finish time of roughly 11 years and two months.
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Glenn’s public tours highlights stunning views of its facilities.
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NASA Glenn to host the International Space Apps Challenge April 10-12, 2015
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT today to discuss the selection of an Asteroid Redirect Mission concept and other advances supporting the agency’s journey to Mars.
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NASA Wednesday announced more details in its plan for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which in the mid-2020s will test a number of new capabilities needed for future human expeditions to deep space, including to Mars. NASA also announced it has increased the detection of near-Earth Asteroids by 65 percent since launching its asteroid initiative three years ago.
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There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet marathon Tuesday — 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) – with a finish time of roughly 11 years and two months.
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NASA has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Orbital ATK (formerly Orbital Sciences Corporation) of Dulles, Virginia, for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 spacecraft.
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NASA’s Kepler mission team will receive the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s highest group honor at a ceremony in Washington on March 25.
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Tuesday, March 24, at 2 p.m., three aerospace curators from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will present “A Celebration of the Centennial of the NACA” at NASA Langley.
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Nearly 100 high school and college teams from around the world will race against each other during NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge April 17-18 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams are from 15 states and Puerto Rico, as well as international teams from Mexico, Germany, India and Russia.
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