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NASA Suspends 2016 Launch of InSight Mission to Mars

January 19, 2016 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission. The decision follows unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a section of the prime instrument in the science payload. “Learning about the interior structure of Mars has […]

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Soyuz Heads to Space Station with New Crew, Return Transportation for One-Year Mission Team

September 2, 2015 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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Three crew members representing Russia, Denmark and Kazakhstan have launched to the International Space Station to provide a new ride home for the station’s one-year crew and continue important research that advances NASA’s journey to Mars.

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Four NASA Heroes Inducted into U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

June 2, 2015 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld and former astronauts Steve Lindsey, Kent Rominger, and M. Rhea Seddon were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Saturday, bringing the total number of Hall of Fame space explorers to 91. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a 2006 hall of famer, and 2008 inductee […]

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NASA Television Coverage Set for Russian Spacewalk

August 13, 2014 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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Two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station will venture outside the orbiting outpost Monday, Aug. 18, for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk — the 181st in support of space station assembly and maintenance. NASA TV coverage will begin at 9:30 a.m. Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency […]

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NASA’s NuSTAR Sees Rare Blurring of Black Hole Light

August 12, 2014 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days. “The corona recently collapsed in toward […]

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Departure of U.S. Cargo Ship to Air on NASA Television

August 12, 2014 by Brian Groce Leave a Comment

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After delivering almost three tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the crew of the International Space Station, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, the SS Janice Voss, is scheduled to leave the station Friday, Aug. 15. NASA Television will provide live coverage of departure activities beginning at 6:15 a.m. EDT. Ground controllers in the Mission Control […]

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Television Coverage Set for Final European Space Station Cargo Ship Docking

August 9, 2014 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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The fifth and final docking of a European Space Agency cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station will air live on NASA Television Tuesday, Aug. 12, beginning at 8 a.m. EDT. Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) 5, which is named “George Lemaitre” in honor of the 20th century Belgian astronomer and physicist credited with proposing the […]

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NASA, Navy Prepare for Orion Spacecraft to Make a Splash

August 7, 2014 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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A team of technicians, engineers, sailors and divers just wrapped up a successful week of testing and preparing for various scenarios that could play out when NASA’s new Orion spacecraft splashes into the Pacific Ocean following its first space flight test in December.  After enduring the extreme environment of space, Orion will blaze back through […]

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Hubble Finds Supernova Star System Linked to Potential “Zombie Star”

August 7, 2014 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted a star system that could have left behind a “zombie star” after an unusually weak supernova explosion. A supernova typically obliterates the exploding white dwarf, or dying star. On this occasion, scientists believe this faint supernova may have left behind a surviving portion of […]

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Hubble Shows Farthest Lensing Galaxy Yields Clues to Early Universe

August 1, 2014 by Indiana Chronicle Leave a Comment

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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. Seen here as it looked 9.6 billion years ago, this monster elliptical galaxy breaks the previous record-holder by 200 million years. These “lensing” galaxies are so massive that their gravity bends, magnifies, and distorts light […]

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