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Vice President Pence Visits NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Vice President Mike Pence toured NASA's Kennedy Space Center this week, learning about the center’s work as a multi-user spaceport for commercial and government clients. He also learned about progress on NASA's Commercial Crew, Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System programs.
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New Mysteries Surround New Horizons’ Next Flyby Target
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft doesn’t zoom past its next science target until New Year’s Day 2019, but the Kuiper Belt object, known as 2014 MU69, is already revealing surprises. Scientists are sifting through data gathered from observing the object’s quick pass in front of a star -- an astronomical event known as an occultation -- on June 3.
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft to Fly Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10
Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 10,000-mile-wide storm. This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature -- a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.
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Total Solar Eclipse: When the Earth, Moon and Sun Align
On August 21, a total solar eclipse will cross the full continental United States. The last total eclipse in the U.S. was in 1979. And the last total solar eclipse that crossed the entire continental U.S. happened in 1918. But why? Why has it been 99 years, and why have the intervening partial and even total eclipses caught only parts of the country?
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SpaceX Dragon Splashes Down to Complete Resupply Mission
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft returned to Earth this week, marking the end of the company’s eleventh contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. A variety of technological and biological studies returned in Dragon, including the Fruit Fly Lab-02 experiment, the Cardiac Stem Cells experiment and samples from the Systemic Therapy of NELL-1 investigation.
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