More than 20 years before yesterday's tragedy Nasa staff feared that the shuttle would be destroyed while re-entering the atmosphere. |
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At the same time, Nasa was under pressure to build the international space station. |
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I read an article about Nasa using plants in space rockets to recycle the carbon dioxide into oxygen. |
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Since the end of the Cold War and all that, I thought Nasa had slowed down as the space race had lost momentum. |
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The Nasa space capsule that crashed in the American desert last month did so because four switches were installed the wrong way round. |
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Nasa is now looking at shooting satellites from guns mounted on mountain tops to change the face of rocket technology. |
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A caller to a phone-in which I heard yesterday took umbrage at the underhand tactics employed by Nasa. |
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Nasa scientists had hoped to make aviation history with the supersonic test flight. |
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Nasa has announced further evidence of a watery history on Mars, from both its rovers. |
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Nasa issued a contract in October 1962 that provided for the research and development of a nuclear-powered rocket engine. |
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Nasa had provided forceps and astronauts had rigged up a makeshift hacksaw for Robinson to use if the gap-fillers proved difficult to remove. |
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Nasa will launch the satellite, funded by the Canadian Space Agency, next January. |
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Nasa boffins have declared their intention to hand over control of three satellites to artificial intelligence software. |
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Nasa astronomers said they had found the smallest planets yet orbiting stars beyond our Sun. |
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Nasa decided to leave space shuttle Discovery on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
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Nearby lies a mission patch torn from a Nasa space suit with the seven names of the crew running along the edge of the shuttle-shaped insignia. |
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A Nasa astronaut has captured the moment the powerful weather bomb storm swept over the UK, posting the image on Twitter. |
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Along with five other astronauts, he has been on a Nasa mission to continue construction on the international space station. |
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Nasa recently lost its robot probe to Mars, and Russia has been plagued by problems with the Mir space station. |
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Nasa directs the unmanned space probe Galileo to plunge into the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, destroying the craft after a 14-year space mission. |
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Columbia broke into pieces during its return trip from space in 2003 because Nasa failed to spot that a hole had been knocked in its wing during launch. |
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Nasa has said that it will not fly another shuttle until it has pinpointed why solid foam cladding juddered off the external fuel tank during lift-off last month. |
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Nasa received data from the Spirit rover yesterday for the first time in two days, ending fears that the Mars mission may have come to a calamitous halt. |
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Nasa conducted a second fueling test Friday on space shuttle Discovery to try to figure out why sensors and a valve did not work properly during a previous run-through. |
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Nasa officials had determined the exposed ceramic-fibre fillers could lead to overheating and a possible repeat of Columbia's disastrous re-entry. |
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Nasa and other rocketeers usually choose liquid or solid fuels. |
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Nasa has also pointed to more on-time launches and smoother prelaunch operations as indicators of America's success in managing the shuttle program. |
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The future role of Nasa has been thrown into question by a high-profile report that concludes the agency is not able to send crewed missions to the Moon and Mars on its own. |
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Next, the moon and, something to surprise Nasa, a space station built by Venusians and Martians. |
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Nasa scientists have calculated that injecting powerful greenhouse gases into the Martian atmosphere would terraform the planet. |
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After 10 years of work by over 200 engineers, MIRI was yesterday ready for delivery by the European Space Agency and Nasa. |
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A recent Nasa paper suggested that the spacecraft was still in a transition zone between the sun's sphere of influence and the rest of the Milky Way. |
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Former Nasa interns Tiffany Fowler and Shae Saur were sentenced to 180 days house arrest and were also ordered to pay more than pounds 5,000 restitution to Nasa. |
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American space agency Nasa hopes the device will be the first of a generation of tiny machines designed to plug holes in spacecraft made by micrometeorites. |
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And, if a 527 was making the ad, they might use a montage of pictures of Kerry touring NASA in a space suit, or windsurfing, or yachting. |
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The situation was set up to provide conditions that might closely resemble an actual NASA emergency abort landing. |
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I am not sure of how it works or what it's made of because I work as an engineer in NASA and I specialize in warp drives, not beams. |
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Testimony from the Expedition Two Crew will be carried live on NASA Television and webcast on NASA's Internet homepage. |
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Summer is the time for whingeing, so at the start of a new year let's change the tone and really give NASA something to probe! |
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In related news, NASA said yesterday that the launch window for its next mission to Mars will open on 10 August. |
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The windshields of NASA vehicles parked outside the building were shattered by the panels, which Kennedy described as flying shrapnel. |
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His NASA team worked to measure gasses in the upper atmosphere by aiming a laser beam out an airplane window to the wing tip. |
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The Discovery space shuttle is counting down for blast-off, with NASA managers confident that last minute hitches would not delay today's launch. |
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No one expects to lose much sleep over it but, for the record, NASA has been sued by three men from Yemen for invading Mars. |
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And NASA named a day of remembrance to honor the astronauts killed in the Colombia, Challenger and the Apollo disaster. |
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Walthall has spent hundreds of hours aboard NASA planes, operating remote sensors, but he is doing his research on the ground now. |
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The company has designed remote-controlled devices for use at NASA facilities for training purposes. |
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He grew up in New Jersey and did his master's in Virginia and then stayed on to work at NASA Langley. |
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This inspired NASA to name the program after the third constellation of the zodiac, which featured the twin stars Castor and Pollux. |
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This month, NASA is conducting a field campaign in southern Florida to investigate high tropical cirrus clouds composed of tiny ice crystals. |
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However, in September 1996 NASA commissioned Laithwaite to develop a rocket launcher using linear motors. |
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Since the rovers began sending pictures back, helpful members of the public have been calling and emailing NASA with news of their discoveries. |
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Apparently, the film-makers had to run the script past NASA so they could use their training facilities in the film. |
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The Massachussets Institute of Technology was the obvious place for NASA to look for help in Apollo's astronavigation problems. |
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The 60-year-old is a NASA astrophysicist who has contributed to numerous space exploration missions. |
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I mean, NASA is working with a lot of very bright folks in the science and engineering and technical fields. |
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Well, 35 years ago today, NASA gave the world's dreamers and schemers a ready-made rationale for anything. |
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Meanwhile, NASA presented a tentative exploration strategy paper at the international workshop. |
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To avoid failure because of mechanical problems, NASA carried out an extensive system design and test program. |
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A leaky valve and a tight schedule are causing NASA some headaches. |
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I asked a former NASA astronaut, who cannot be quoted on the record, to look at photographs of the debris. |
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The National Research Council reports that NASA has functionally thrown in the towel on a manned mission to Mars. |
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Can you imagine flying to Venus in an Apollo-era ship based on the same technology, as some NASA people proposed? |
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He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at cape Canaveral. |
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Events celebrating the Centennial of Flight Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003, will be carried live by satellite and rebroadcast on NASA Television throughout the day. |
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Water being one of the prerequisites for life, these efforts are part of a larger astrobiological NASA mission to probe the origin and distribution of life in the universe. |
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The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. |
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Spinoffs refer to any technology that is a direct result of coding or products created by NASA and redesigned for an alternate purpose. |
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This mission enabled NASA astronauts and a doctor to test telerobotic technology while performing surgery on a simulated patient. |
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The island was one of 33 emergency landing sites worldwide for the NASA Space Shuttle. |
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Media are invited to speak with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Wednesday, Sept. |
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Army major, McClain was selected by NASA in June 2013 as one of eight selectees in NASA's most recent candidate class. |
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His uncle who worked at NASA, building guidance systems for the Apollo rockets, sent him some launch footage. |
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In robotic science mission and exploration missions, NASA has been ESA's main partner. |
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The NASA culture change initiative was kicked off in March using a proprietary BST survey to conduct an agency-wide cultural assessment. |
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The return of supersonic passenger travel may be coming closer to reality thanks to NASA s efforts to define a new standard for low sonic booms. |
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It is the first spacewalk by NASA since July when there was a problem with a space helmet worn by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano. |
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They can be turned into anything from golf clubs to fuel cells to NASA space ships. |
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His spacewalking partner, American Christopher Cassidy, had to help him inside after NASA quickly aborted the spacewalk. |
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In 1986 and November 1987, NASA climate scientist James Hansen gave testimony to Congress on global warming. |
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A resident of Rosamond, Sokolik joined NASA in August 1987 when the ER-2 aircraft were based at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Jose. |
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The steel caster proposed to NASA that it could cast entirely new sets of shoes at a similar price as refurbishing. |
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The Cansat competition is sponsored by NASA, the American Astronautical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. |
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One day later, NASA shut down the spacecraft's video feed as it went into 'emergency Sun reacquisition mode. |
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When visiting Operation IceBridge in September, Ambassador Hammer joined NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan on an overflight of Antartica. |
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There were maybe 100 really advanced users, including aerodynamicists from NASA and everywhere else, who were innovators. |
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On Friday, the NASA space probe Dawn entered orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. |
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The Mars Exploration Rovers will act as robot geologists while they are on the surface of Mars. NASA site. |
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The NASA Paresev Rogallo flexible wing was originally developed to investigate alternative methods of recovering spacecraft. |
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Parts of volcanic Lanzarote resemble pictures sent back from Mars by the latest NASA probe. |
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After Carpenter fired the retrorockets to power his return, NASA controllers lost radio contact and feared a tragedy. |
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Scientists have reported an annual phytoplankton bloom that can be seen in many NASA images of the region. |
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On 7 February 2008, a NASA team embarked on a mission to Lake Untersee, searching for extremophiles in its highly alkaline waters. |
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Scientists at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union on December 13, 2007, revealed that NASA satellites observing the western Arctic. |
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The size of the ground crew points up a key difference between the Air Force and NASA life-support operations, Sokolik said. |
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The NASA Kepler spacecraft data revealed a large number of multimode nonradially pulsating gamma Dor and delta Sct variable star candidates. |
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From blazars to thunderstorms, from dark matter to supernova remnants, catch the highlights of NASA Fermi's first five years in space. |
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Howard McCurdy critiques the nature and effects of NASA's organizational culture, while Robert MacGregor compares NASA and the Atomic Energy Commission as technocracies. |
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On March 28, the spacecraft and third rocket stage will be hauled over the East NASA Causeway to launch complex 17, where Odyssey will be rocketed from Earth. |
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Limited experiments with solar electric propulsion have been performed, notably the manned Solar Challenger and Solar Impulse and the unmanned NASA Pathfinder aircraft. |
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The so-called tetrad is unusual because the full eclipses are visible in all or parts of the United States, according to retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak. |
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By 1960, NASA had sketched the outline for a decadelong effort toward unmanned and then manned lunar explorations, as well as sending spacecraft to Venus and Mars. |
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Astrobot! NASA scientists are regular participants in the DARPA challenge. |
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The beginning of the new millennium saw ESA become, along with agencies like NASA, JAXA, ISRO, CSA and Roscosmos, one of the major participants in scientific space research. |
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These support services within the Integrated Mission Operations Contract II are critical to the safe operation of all NASA human spaceflight missions. |
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Sandia Science and Technology Park, and the NASA Research Park at Ames are examples of research parks that have been developed by or adjacent to federal laboratories. |
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The Cypriot team ArachnoBeeA, winner of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge has been invited by NASA to attend the launch of a space rocket this September. |
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In 1963, NASA astronomer Winifred Cameron proposed that the lunar equivalent of terrestrial pyroclastic flows may have formed sinuous rilles on the Moon. |
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I congratulate all of the men and women at NASA and around the world who have worked so hard to keep the International Space Station operational these past 15 years. |
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Since 2002, Alexander, 47, has served in her current capacity at the 5,000-employee NASA research center, which focuses on unmanned space vehicles. |
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Although it was not used for the space shuttle, NASA had been planning to use coke and other materials for the heat shield for its next generation space craft, Orion. |
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A team of NASA scientists has arrived in New Zealand for the first time as part of the Spaceward Bound project to educate people around the world. |
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In late August 2008, it was reported that images from the NASA Aqua satellite had revealed that the last ice blockage of the Northern Sea Route in the Laptev Sea had melted. |
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The stationary firing of the first-stage development solid rocket motor, dubbed DM-2, was the most heavily instrumented solid rocket motor test in NASA history. |
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And by the end of the Apollo moon-landing program, NASA was allowing common grocery items like bread slices, canned meats, and peanut butter and jellies on lunar missions. |
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Twenty-four years earlier, President Nixon and his NASA administrator James Fletcher had convened in an almost identical ceremony a few miles south in San Clemente. |
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The program was aimed at providing flight data on scramjets, a technology NASA and the Air Force officials believe could power high speed aircraft and spacecraft. |
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Deets' awards include the NASA Exceptional Service Award and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics Award. |
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On December 13, 2016, NASA reported further evidence supporting habitability on the planet Mars as the Curiosity rover climbed higher, studying younger layers, on Mount Sharp. |
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In May, 1,500 juniors and seniors from the Houston Independent School District explored the world of physics with NASA astronauts and rocket scientists. |
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In the early days of the American space program, NASA used it. |
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It's equipped with a jackhammer and a nuclear-powered lab whose 10 instruments, controlled by NASA scientists back on Earth, will test Martian soil and rocks. |
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