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Asteroid Initiative Workshop Session Video 
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Asteroid Initiative Workshop
NASA resumed the Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop, which was postponed due to the recent government shutdown, between November 20-22. During the make-up days NASA continued to examine the many good ideas that were submitted in response to the Asteroid Initiative Request for Information in June.
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This Week at NASA: MAVEN Launched and Happy Birthday ISS
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This Week at NASA: MAVEN Launched and Happy Birthday ISS.
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a 10-month journey to Mars. MAVEN will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphere to investigate how loss of the atmosphere to space impacted the history of water on the planet's surface.
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This Week at NASA: Maven Update
The MAVEN spacecraft is the latest NASA probe designed to help piece together a complete picture of The Red Planet's past.
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This Week at NASA: Mars Mission Brief
During a news briefing at NASA headquarters officials and scientists discussed MAVEN, the agency's next mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch November 18 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, MAVEN will study the history and change of Mars' atmosphere, climate, and planetary habitability.
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Video: NASA Google Plus Hangout Briefing on Antarctic Ice Campaign
NASA hosted a Google+ Hangout news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 29 to share information about Operation IceBridge's upcoming airborne field campaign in Antarctica.
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NASA Will Face Solomon's Choice in 2014
Dennis Wingo: There is a story in the Old Testament that illustrates wisdom - the wisdom of King Solomon. Solomon was the king of Israel and had been proclaimed to be the wisest man in the world. The story begins with two women who lived in a house together. Each of them had a child. The first mother gave birth three days before the second one did.
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NASA's Webb Telescope is Shaping Up
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield is shaping up and it's the shape and unique design that viewers of a new video will find interesting. A five-layer sunshield helps keep the infrared instruments aboard the Webb telescope as cold as possible by blocking out heat and light.
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This Week at NASA: Three New ISS Residents
The International Space Station has three new residents. Expedition 37/38 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy and NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins arrived six hours after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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NASA's Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids
Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look. They got a chance to do that in 2011 and 2012, when NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited the giant asteroid, and they were able to check earlier conclusions.
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Webb Telescope Video Provides a View of Vacuum Chamber Test
Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., sits a massive thermal vacuum chamber called the Space Environment Simulator, or SES, that duplicates the vacuum and extreme temperatures of space. A new video shows how engineers use the chamber to test equipment that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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This Week @NASA: Cygnus Launched and More
Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus cargo craft launched aboard the company's Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station.
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NASA Invites Public To Q&A Session With Women Working On Webb Telescope
NASA is inviting the general public to participate in a question and answer session with women working on the agency's next generation of a space-based telescope as part of a Reddit.com event on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. EDT.
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This Week at NASA: Voyager in Interstellar Space
During a press briefing at NASA headquarters, scientists announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has officially left our solar bubble and has reached interstellar space.
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Confirmed: NASA's Voyager 1 is Travelling in Interstellar Space
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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This Week @NASA: LADEE Launches
LADEE, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer robotic probe launched Friday night atop an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur V rocket.
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NASA's LADEE - Testing a Multi-Use Spacecraft Design
On Friday, Sept. 6, NASA is scheduled to launch a small satellite mission, called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about its atmosphere and the role of dust in the lunar sky.
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This Week at NASA: MAVEN Launched and Happy Birthday ISS
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This Week at NASA: Three New ISS Residents
Webb Telescope Video Provides a View of Vacuum Chamber Test
This Week @NASA: Cygnus Launched and More
This Week at NASA: Voyager in Interstellar Space
Confirmed: NASA's Voyager 1 is Travelling in Interstellar Space
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Calendar
- 8 Dec: Exoplanets and Disks: Their Formation and Diversity
- 9 Dec: ASTROBIO 2013: An International Workshop on Astrobiology
- 9 Dec: NASA Advisory Council Audit, Finance and Analysis Committee Meeting
- 9 Dec: NASA Advisory Council Human Exploration and Operations Committee Meeting
- 9 Dec: NASA Discusses Curiosity Radiation Findings
- 9 Dec: AGU Fall Meeting
- 9 Dec: Falcon 9 Launch to Resupply the ISS
- 10 Dec: NASA Advisory Council Technology and Innovation Committee Meeting
- 10 Dec: Mars One, Lockheed Martin, SSTL Press Conference
- 10 Dec: STA lunch with Bill Wrobel, Wallops; Dale Nash, MARS; Frank Culbertson, Orbital
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