NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
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Students at Hardy Middle School in Washington, D.C., will start their school year off with a high-energy, hip-hop physics show Monday, Sept. 16, when FMA Live! Forces in Motion kicks off its 2013 schedule. The first show begins at 9 a.m. EDT.
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News and social media members have an opportunity to get an up-close look at NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission’s Core Observatory satellite Tuesday, Oct. 8, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in its final public appearance.
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NASA will host a news conference today at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT), to discuss NASA’s Voyager mission. It is related to a paper to be published in the journal Science, which is embargoed until 2 p.m. EDT.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees inside the crowded core of the giant grouping of galaxies known as Abell 1689.
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NASA Television will air pre- and post-launch news conferences and provide live launch coverage of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s cargo resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy of NASA and Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency have returned to Earth from the International Space Station, landing safely in Kazakhstan at 10:58 p.m. EDT Tuesday (8:58 a.m. Sept. 11 Kazakh time).
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NASA has selected Jacobs Technology, Inc., of Tullahoma, Tenn., to provide core support services at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in the areas of institutional and research operations, maintenance and engineering.
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NASA has exercised the first option under its contract with Vantage Partners LLC of Lanham, Md., to continue providing engineering and scientific support services to the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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Several NASA officials will update media Wednesday, Sept. 11, about the agency’s progress on a proposed mission to find, capture, redirect and visit a near-Earth asteroid.
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