| February 24, 2009 | - A rocket carrying the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory, intended to track global warming, crashed on launch.
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Sky News
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| September 30, 2008 | -
NASA discovered that snow falls on Mars.
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Washington Post
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| August 27, 2008 | -
NASA confirmed that laptops in space had been infected with the virus Gammima.AG.
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BBC
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| July 25, 2008 | -
NASA announced that the lights of the auroras australis and borealis are caused by magnetic explosions one-third of the way to the moon.
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Science Daily
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| March 20, 2008 | - A NASA probe revealed that Mars may be covered in table salt.
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BBC News
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| February 6, 2008 | -
NASA celebrated its 50th anniversary by beaming the Beatles hit “Across the Universe” into deep space, directing the song toward Polaris, 431 light-years away. Scientists meeting at Arizona State University were concerned that the broadcast could provoke an attack by mean-spirited aliens. “Before sending out even symbolic messages,” said a researcher, “we need an open discussion about the potential risks.”
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Washington Post
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Telegraph
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| August 29, 2007 | -
NASA announced that none of its astronauts were guilty of flying a spacecraft while drunk.
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CNN
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| August 12, 2007 | - Teacher Barbara Morgan, Christa McAuliffe's backup on the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission, blasted into orbit on board the space shuttle
Endeavour, which suffered damage to its heat shield.
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Kansas City Star
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| July 27, 2007 | - A panel found that NASA had allowed astronauts to fly drunk.
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BBC News
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| May 11, 2007 | -
NASA unveiled a new telescope that will help scientists “see the very birth of the universe.”
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BBC
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| February 7, 2007 | - In a scenario that psychiatry professor Michael Stone called “unique in the annals of female crime,” U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak was arrested after she drove 900 miles to attempt to kidnap a woman she believed was romantically involved with a male space colleague. Dr. Keith Ablow, another psychiatrist, theorized that Nowak, who when taken into custody was wearing a diaper and was in possession of a BB gun, pepper spray, garbage bags, and rubber tubing, may very well have “unresolved issues.”
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NY Times
Source 2:
MSNBC
Source 3:
MSNBC and ABC News
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| December 5, 2006 | -
NASA announced that by 2024 it would open a space camp for astronauts at the south pole of the moon.
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Washington Post
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| December 4, 2006 | -
NASA head Michael Griffin compared space
explorers to Vikings. “Fifty years into it,” he explained, “the amount of progress that the Vikings had made would not have been that noticeable, and that's where we are in space flight today.”
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Washington Post
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| August 23, 2006 | - Paul Weisman, a researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that scientists were “anally pursuing” a new designation for Pluto.
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Universe 'too fascinating'
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| August 14, 2006 | - It was reported that NASA had lost the original high-resolution tapes of the July 1969 moon landing.
| Source 1:
AOL Log Search
Source 2:
The Independent
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| August 4, 2006 | - A laser-equipped research aircraft owned by NASA was being used to locate woodpeckers in the Mississippi Delta.
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CNN
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| May 28, 2006 | -
NASA scientists claimed that they could extract oxygen from lunar soil.
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The Daily Mail
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| March 11, 2006 | - The Cassini spacecraft, said NASA, found what appeared to be water on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| February 17, 2006 | -
NASA researchers found that the ice from glaciers in Greenland was flowing into the sea at double the rate of 10 years ago.
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The New York Times
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| January 29, 2006 | - James E. Hansen, a director at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said that NASA had ordered its public-affairs staff to review and possibly censor his upcoming speeches and papers after he called for reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.
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The New York Times
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| October 21, 2005 | - A panel of researchers called on NASA to think through issues of astronaut sexuality as it plans a trip to Mars. "If there are instances of sexual conflict or infidelity," said a medical anthropologist, "that may lead to a breakdown in crew functioning."
| Source:
New Scientist Space
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| September 19, 2005 | -
NASA announced that it wanted to return to the moon.
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Reuters
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| July 28, 2005 | - As the culmination of its $1.4 billion “Return to Flight” effort, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Discovery into orbit. Almost immediately, the shuttle shed pieces of insulation and hit a bird. President George W. Bush watched the launch on a small television and clapped his hands, and NASA grounded all future shuttle flights.
| Source 1:
Newsday
Source 2:
Boston.com
Source 3:
The Washington Post
Source 4:
The Washington Post
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| July 13, 2005 | -
NASA postponed the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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AP
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| July 3, 2005 | -
NASA smashed a coffee-table-sized device traveling at 23,000 miles per hour into the Tempel 1 comet.
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Nasa.gov
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| May 24, 2005 | -
NASA planned to put a laser in orbit around the moon.
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Red Nova
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| March 9, 2005 | -
NASA considered ending the mission of Voyager 1, which is thirteen light-hours from the sun.
| Source:
Space Daily
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| February 26, 2005 | -
NASA
scientists resurrected bacteria that had been frozen for 32,000 years.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| February 16, 2005 | -
NASA researchers studying the methane signatures of Mars found evidence of life below the Martian surface.
| Source:
Space.com
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| February 10, 2005 | - A NASA study found that 2004 was the fourth-warmest year on record.
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The New York Times
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| February 8, 2005 | -
NASA decided to scrap the Hubble space telescope.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| December 23, 2004 | -
NASA announced that a 400-meter asteroid had a good chance of striking the earth in 2029.
| Source:
NASA
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| April 25, 2004 | - Scientists at NASA were ordered not to speak to reporters about The Day After Tomorrow, a disaster movie in which global warming triggers an ice age, because officials were worried about political damage to the president, who has refused to take the threat of climate change seriously.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 3, 2004 | -
NASA scientists announced that Mars was once wet enough to support life.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 19, 2004 | - Newly released documents revealed that the U.S. Census Bureau gave information on millions of Americans to NASA for a study on the feasibility of mining such data to look for potential terrorists.
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Washington Times
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| January 14, 2004 | -
President Bush ordered NASA to build a permanent base on the moon and and to make preparations to send men to Mars; NASA responded by abandoning future maintenance missions for the Hubble Space Telescope, thereby condemning the telescope to a premature death.
| Source:
Space.com
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| June 10, 2003 | -
NASA sent a spaceship to Mars.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 29, 2003 | -
NASA
researchers were planning to fire bunker-buster missiles at the moon, to look for ice.
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| February 11, 2003 | -
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe denied that cost cutting had led to the Columbia disaster, though last April the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel warned Congress that the shuttle fleet was being endangered by reductions in NASA's budget, which is down 40 percent since 1990.
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| September 3, 2002 | -
NASA decided to let pop singer Lance Bass train at the Johnson Space Center in preparation for his $20 million adventure with the Russian space program.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
NASA announced that it had located a missing $159 million comet-seeking spacecraft that turned out to be orbiting the sun.
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| March 26, 2002 | -
NASA
researchers highly recommended afternoon power naps.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
NASA
launched an observatory to study the afterglow of the Big Bang.
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| June 19, 2001 | - A group of NASA engineers and American astronomers proposed solving the problem of global warming by moving the entire Earth into another orbit, which they say would add another 6 billion years to the planet's working life. “The technology is not at all far-fetched,” Dr. Greg Laughlin said. “We don't need raw power to move Earth, we just require delicacy of planning and maneuvering.”
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| April 10, 2001 | -
NASA said it would have to cut costs on the International Space Station because it faced a budget shortfall; the agency also launched the Mars Odyssey, which will reach Mars in October if all goes according to plan, though the ship's name bodes ill.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
NASA landed a spaceship on an asteroid.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Albert Einstein's theory that a massive spinning object will twist space-time around it received support from X-rays emanating from three neutron stars detected by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a NASA
satellite.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
NASA announced that it would send a new unmanned rover to Mars in 2003; recent evidence suggests that water once was present on the planet's surface.
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