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Dec 15, 2015 · 5 min read

More Voyages To Jupiter: As Juno Inches Closer To Gas Giant, JUICE Comes Closer To Reality

By Emily Carney

While one NASA/JPL spacecraft is less than a year out from its rendezvous with our Solar System’s largest gas giant, another…

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Dec 15, 2015 · 9 min read

‘A Real Bright Star’: 50 Years Since the First Space Rendezvous (Part 2)

By Ben Evans

“It’s death … or the ejection seat!” For Wally Schirra, command pilot of Gemini VI-A, steely nerves were a mainstay of his career as a naval aviator and as one of…

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Dec 13, 2015 · 14 min read

‘It’s Death or the Ejection Seat’: 50 Years Since the First Space Rendezvous (Part 1)

Just before Christmas in 1965–50 years ago, next week — a pair of Gemini spacecraft serenely circled Earth together and in close proximity. Aboard Gemini VII, astronauts Frank Borman…

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Dec 11, 2015 · 22 min read

One Year After EFT-1, What’s Been Learned, and What’s Ahead for NASA’s Orion in 2016

On Dec. 5, 2014, NASA entered the Orion era minutes after dawn broke across Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The ground adjacent to Launch Complex-37B rumbled for miles and…

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Dec 11, 2015 · 8 min read

Mystery Solved? Odd Bright Spots on Ceres Explained as Salt Deposits