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This Week at NASA: Next Giant Leap 
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This Week at NASA: Next Giant Leap
It was 45 years ago that Neil Armstrong took the small step onto the surface of the moon that changed the course of history. The Apollo missions blazed a path for human exploration to the moon and today NASA is taking its Next Giant Leap to near-Earth asteroids, Mars and beyond. As we develop and test the new tools of 21st century spaceflight on the human path to Mars, we once again will change the course of history.
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Satellite Study Reveals Parched U.S. West Using Up Underground Water
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Satellite Study Reveals Parched U.S. West Using Up Underground Water
A new study by NASA and University of California, Irvine, scientists finds more than 75 percent of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the water supply of the western United States than previously thought.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Stacks Up to Test
The Sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest part of the observatory--five layers of thin membrane that must unfurl reliably in space to precise tolerances. Last week, for the first time, engineers stacked and unfurled a full-sized test unit of the Sunshield and it worked perfectly.
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NASA Voyager Statement About Solar Wind Models
A paper recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters describes an alternate model for the interaction between the heliosphere -- a "bubble" around our planets and sun -- and the interstellar medium. It also proposes a test for whether Voyager 1 has, indeed, left the heliosphere.
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NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Finds A Transformer Pulsar
In late June 2013, an exceptional binary containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, according to measurements by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
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The X Factor: Behind the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is being tested at a number of facilities, including some operated by NASA. One of these locations is in Huntsville, Alabama, at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Fifteen years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Since its deployment on July 23, 1999, Chandra has helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe through its unrivaled X-ray vision.
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VIDEO: NASA Renames Historic Facility in Honor of Neil Armstrong
During a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center on Monday, July 21, NASA renamed the center's Operations and Checkout Building in honor of late astronaut Neil Armstrong, who passed away in 2012.
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This Week at NASA: Apollo 11 Yesterday, Next Giant Leap Tomorrow
NASA is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, with crewmate Michael Collins manning the command service module from lunar orbit, became the first humans on the moon -- with Armstrong's historic first step onto the lunar surface becoming a symbolic giant leap for humanity.
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Video Archive: Looking Back at Apollo 11 45 Years Ago
NASA is marking the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing this month. Here in a series of videos from the archives are some of the events of that fateful mission.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Apollo 11 45th Anniversary Message
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden conveys his thoughts on the Apollo 11 45th anniversary.
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This Week at NASA: Cygnus Launch, Aquarius, Mars and More
Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo craft launched from Wallops Flight Facility on the Orbital-2 mission -- the company's second operational resupply mission to the International Space Station, under its Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
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This Week at NASA: OCO-2 Launch, SLS and Saturn
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission is underway. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, OCO-2 will help track our impact on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and help us better understand the various human-made and natural sources of CO-2.
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Ocean on Saturn's Moon Titan Could be as Salty as the Dead Sea
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as the Earth's Dead Sea.
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Cassini Names Final Mission Phase Its 'Grand Finale'
With input from more than 2,000 members of the public, team members on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn have chosen a name for the final phase of the mission: the Cassini Grand Finale.
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Dawn's Spacecraft Downward Spiral to Reveal New World Views
Deep in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, far from Earth, far from the sun, far now even from the giant protoplanet Vesta that it orbited for 14 months, Dawn flies with its sights set on dwarf planet Ceres.
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 15th Anniversary
VIDEO: NASA Renames Historic Facility in Honor of Neil Armstrong
This Week at NASA: Apollo 11 Yesterday, Next Giant Leap Tomorrow
Video Archive: Looking Back at Apollo 11 45 Years Ago
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Apollo 11 45th Anniversary Message
This Week at NASA: Cygnus Launch, Aquarius, Mars and More
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- 30 Jul: NASA Advisory Council Meeting
- 30 Jul: The X-ray View of Galaxies in Compact Groups and the Coma Cluster Infall Region
- 31 Jul: Explore Mars to Search for Life Below the Martian Surface
- 31 Jul: Is It Time to Search for Life on Mars?
- 2 Aug: 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- 3 Aug: Beyond Earth: Planets, Life and Intelligence in the Cosmos
- 4 Aug: Saturn in the 21st Century
- 4 Aug: NASA Europa Pre-proposal Conference
- 5 Aug: SETI: Past, Present, and Future Finding Aliens and Finding Ourselves
- 13 Aug: NASA LaRC Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Industry Day
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