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Atlantis Rides Into History
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Published July 9, 2011
In July 2011, the Space Shuttle Atlantis lit its rockets and roared into space for the 135th and last flight of the U.S. space transportation system.
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Aquarius Rising
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Published June 11, 2011
On June 10, 2011, NASA launched Aquarius/SAC-D, an international earth-monitoring satellite and NASA's first new spaceborne tool for studying the Earth since 2008.
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Lining Up the Sun, Moon, and ISS
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Published January 7, 2011
While the Moon was busy passing between the Sun and Earth for an eclipse in 2011, the space station made a cameo.
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Auroral Rocket in Norway
Published January 4, 2011
Photographers captured these digital photos of a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket and the aurora borealis on December 12, 2010, during the NASA-funded Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU).
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Glory on the Brunt Ice Shelf
Published November 16, 2010
One of NASA’s workhorse planes, the DC-8, is being used this month to provide critical insight on the health of the ice sheets and shelves at the southern tip of the world.
Kilauea Lava Enters the Ocean
Published October 5, 2010
Lava from Kilauea Volcano flows into the ocean near Kalapana, Hawaii.
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Global Hawk, NASA’s New Remote-Controlled Plane
Published March 30, 2010
The Global Hawk, NASA's new remote-controlled airplane, banks for a landing over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base in California at the end of a test flight on October 23, 2009.
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Joanne Simpson, 1923-2010
Published March 9, 2010
Dr. Joanne Simpson (1923–2010) pores over reams of images of tropical clouds filmed during flights across the tropical Pacific. The photos and her hand-drawn maps of cloud formations became the foundation for her groundbreaking “hot towers” hypothesis about atmospheric circulation in the tropics.
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GOES-P Satellite Launches
Published March 6, 2010
This photo shows the GOES-P satellite launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 4, 2010.
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To the Moon! Lunar Missions Successfully Launch
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Published June 20, 2009
After waiting out a thunderstorm, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite rocketed off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 18, 2009. This photograph captures the pair of spacecraft as they were lifting off.
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Earthrise 1966
Published November 15, 2008
Long before man journeyed to the moon and looked back at the tiny, fragile planet that houses humanity, lunar orbiters were sending back pictures of home.
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