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LIVE VIDEO: SpaceX rocket set to launch to Space Station Watch a live feed from NASA as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with Dragon capsule on top, attempts to launch to the International Space Station: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/spacex-iss-flight-march-2013The mission is the second of 12 SpaceX flights to resupply the ISS. Launch is scheduled for 10:10 a.m. EST.Photo: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with its Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen shortly after it was erected at Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida today. (NASA/Bill Ingalls) View high resolution

LIVE VIDEO: SpaceX rocket set to launch to Space Station

Watch a live feed from NASA as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with Dragon capsule on top, attempts to launch to the International Space Station: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/spacex-iss-flight-march-2013

The mission is the second of 12 SpaceX flights to resupply the ISS. Launch is scheduled for 10:10 a.m. EST.

Photo: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with its Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen shortly after it was erected at Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida today. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Mars rover confirms 1st drilled Mars rock sample NASA: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its interior. Photo: Image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the 1st sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover’s drill. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) View high resolution

Mars rover confirms 1st drilled Mars rock sample

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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its interior.

Photo: Image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the 1st sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover’s drill. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Watch live video of asteroid’s close fly-by to Earth Watch live video and commentary from NASA on the expected close fly-by of an asteroid to Earth on BreakingNews.com: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/asteroid-passes-by-earth-feb-15-2013The asteroid is half the size of a U.S. football field, flying at nearly 17,500 mph. NASA and astronomers say the chance of asteroid 2012 DA14 colliding with Earth are infinitesimally small.Photo: A diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) View high resolution

Watch live video of asteroid’s close fly-by to Earth

Watch live video and commentary from NASA on the expected close fly-by of an asteroid to Earth on BreakingNews.com: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/asteroid-passes-by-earth-feb-15-2013

The asteroid is half the size of a U.S. football field, flying at nearly 17,500 mph. NASA and astronomers say the chance of asteroid 2012 DA14 colliding with Earth are infinitesimally small.

Photo: A diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Asteroid to make close approach to Earth next week Space.com: An asteroid half the size of a football field will make a close approach to Earth next week, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet, NASA officials say.Asteroid 2012 DA14’s close encounter is a record-breaking celestial event, according to Don Yeomans, the head of NASA’s asteroid-tracking program. An object this large only passes this close to the Earth about once every 40 years, and likely only hits the planet once every 1,200 years, Yeomans says.Photo: A diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) View high resolution

Asteroid to make close approach to Earth next week

Space.com: An asteroid half the size of a football field will make a close approach to Earth next week, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet, NASA officials say.

Asteroid 2012 DA14’s close encounter is a record-breaking celestial event, according to Don Yeomans, the head of NASA’s asteroid-tracking program. An object this large only passes this close to the Earth about once every 40 years, and likely only hits the planet once every 1,200 years, Yeomans says.

Photo: A diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Longest space mission for US astronaut set for 2015 CNN: Capt. Scott Kelly, a veteran astronaut, will set the record for the longest single space mission for an American, NASA announced today. Kelly and Roscomos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will embark on a 1-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015. The duo will help scientists explore the effects of living in space on the human body, NASA said. Photo:  NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was a flight engineer on Expedition 25 to the International Space Station. (photo via CNN) View high resolution

Longest space mission for US astronaut set for 2015

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Capt. Scott Kelly, a veteran astronaut, will set the record for the longest single space mission for an American, NASA announced today. Kelly and Roscomos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will embark on a 1-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015.

The duo will help scientists explore the effects of living in space on the human body, NASA said.

Photo:  NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was a flight engineer on Expedition 25 to the International Space Station. (photo via CNN)

Curiosity rover finds soil similar to Hawaii’s on Mars BBC News: NASA’s Curiosity rover has found soil on Mars to be similar to Hawaii’s after sifting and scanning its first sample on the Red Planet. The robot’s CheMin instrument shook out fine particles of soil and fired X-rays at them to determine their composition. Photo credit: NASA

Curiosity rover finds soil similar to Hawaii’s on Mars

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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found soil on Mars to be similar to Hawaii’s after sifting and scanning its first sample on the Red Planet.

The robot’s CheMin instrument shook out fine particles of soil and fired X-rays at them to determine their composition.

Photo credit: NASA

Mars rover Curiosity finds signs of ancient stream Scientists say NASA’s Curiosity rover has found signs that a stream once flowed across the surface near the site where it landed on Mars. Read more from NBC News.Photo: In this image from NASA’s Curiosity rover, a rock outcrop called Link pops out from a Martian surface that is elsewhere blanketed by reddish-brown dust. The picture was taken on Sept. 2, the 27th Martian day of Curiosity’s mission. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) View high resolution

Mars rover Curiosity finds signs of ancient stream

Scientists say NASA’s Curiosity rover has found signs that a stream once flowed across the surface near the site where it landed on Mars. Read more from NBC News.

Photo: In this image from NASA’s Curiosity rover, a rock outcrop called Link pops out from a Martian surface that is elsewhere blanketed by reddish-brown dust. The picture was taken on Sept. 2, the 27th Martian day of Curiosity’s mission. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off on final journey AP: NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour left the Kennedy Space Center at sunrise Wednesday on the 1st leg of its flight to California, bolted on top of a jet. Endeavour will make it as far as Houston Wednesday, and is set to arrive in Los Angeles on Friday. This is NASA’s last ferry flight of a shuttle. Endeavour flew 25 times in space before it was retired last year. Photo: Endeavour stands atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ahead of its flight to Los Angeles. (NASA / Dmitri Gerondidakis) View high resolution

Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off on final journey

AP: NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour left the Kennedy Space Center at sunrise Wednesday on the 1st leg of its flight to California, bolted on top of a jet.

Endeavour will make it as far as Houston Wednesday, and is set to arrive in Los Angeles on Friday. This is NASA’s last ferry flight of a shuttle. Endeavour flew 25 times in space before it was retired last year.

Photo: Endeavour stands atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ahead of its flight to Los Angeles. (NASA / Dmitri Gerondidakis)

Tropical Storm Isaac moves toward Haiti Tropical Storm Isaac is forecast to pass near or over Haiti tonight, threatening heavy rain, flash floods and mudslides to the country still vulnerable after a devastating earthquake in 2010. More updates on BreakingNews.com.Photo: NASA’s Terra satellite passed over Tropical Storm Isaac today at 11:20 a.m. EDT as it continued moving through the eastern Caribbean Sea. (Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team) View high resolution

Tropical Storm Isaac moves toward Haiti

Tropical Storm Isaac is forecast to pass near or over Haiti tonight, threatening heavy rain, flash floods and mudslides to the country still vulnerable after a devastating earthquake in 2010. More updates on BreakingNews.com.

Photo: NASA’s Terra satellite passed over Tropical Storm Isaac today at 11:20 a.m. EDT as it continued moving through the eastern Caribbean Sea. (Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team)

NASA Mars rover Curiosity snaps 1st color photo of Red Planet Space.com: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has taken its 1st color photo of the planet. The new photo provides a view of the terrain north of the Curiosity rover, and shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater in the distance, NASA officials said in an image description. Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems View high resolution

NASA Mars rover Curiosity snaps 1st color photo of Red Planet

Space.com: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has taken its 1st color photo of the planet. The new photo provides a view of the terrain north of the Curiosity rover, and shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater in the distance, NASA officials said in an image description.

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems

NASA unveils Orion spacecraft Florida Today: NASA and Lockheed Martin unveiled the 1st space-bound Orion spacecraft today as some 450 people gathered at Kennedy Space Center to mark its arrival. It will be the 1st time a spacecraft for human spaceflight has been produced at the center. The production line work will be done by a crew that will total about 400, offsetting some of the job losses caused by the 2011 shutdown of the shuttle program. Photo credit: Tim Shortt / Florida Today View high resolution

NASA unveils Orion spacecraft


Florida Today: NASA and Lockheed Martin unveiled the 1st space-bound Orion spacecraft today as some 450 people gathered at Kennedy Space Center to mark its arrival. It will be the 1st time a spacecraft for human spaceflight has been produced at the center. The production line work will be done by a crew that will total about 400, offsetting some of the job losses caused by the 2011 shutdown of the shuttle program.


Photo credit: Tim Shortt / Florida Today

NASA launches black-hole hunting telescope NuSTAR SPACE.com: NASA on Wednesday launched its newest space telescope on a mission to search for black holes in the universe. The $165 million Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array(NuSTAR) mission will hunt for black holes by scanning X-ray light at higher energies than any spacecraft before. Photo: An artist’s concept of NuSTAR on orbit. (via NASA)

NASA launches black-hole hunting telescope NuSTAR

SPACE.com:

NASA on Wednesday launched its newest space telescope on a mission to search for black holes in the universe.

The $165 million Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array(NuSTAR) mission will hunt for black holes by scanning X-ray light at higher energies than any spacecraft before.

Photo: An artist’s concept of NuSTAR on orbit. (via NASA)

SpaceX Dragon capsule recovered from Pacific Ocean SpaceX has shared the 1st photo of its Dragon capsule in the Pacific Ocean. The capsule has been recovered after splashing down earlier today and is on a barge heading back to land.(Photo via http://twitter.com/SpaceX) View high resolution

SpaceX Dragon capsule recovered from Pacific Ocean

SpaceX has shared the 1st photo of its Dragon capsule in the Pacific Ocean. The capsule has been recovered after splashing down earlier today and is on a barge heading back to land.

(Photo via http://twitter.com/SpaceX)

NASA predicts our galaxy will collide with nearby galaxy In 6 billion years, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the nearby Andromeda galaxy, according to the 1st reliable determination of Andromeda’s sideways motion, made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.Read more on the astronomers’ prediction on Talking Points Memo and in NASA’s press release.This photo illustration depicts a view of the night sky just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. (Illustration: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), and A. Mellinger) View high resolution

NASA predicts our galaxy will collide with nearby galaxy

In 6 billion years, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the nearby Andromeda galaxy, according to the 1st reliable determination of Andromeda’s sideways motion, made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Read more on the astronomers’ prediction on Talking Points Memo and in NASA’s press release.

This photo illustration depicts a view of the night sky just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. (Illustration: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), and A. Mellinger)

Private spacecraft becomes 1st to visit International Space Station The International Space Station crew successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the station’s robotic arm at 9:56 a.m. EDT, NASA says. This is the 1st time a commercial spacecraft has visited the International Space Station. More updates on breakingnews.com. Photo: A camera on the International Space Station captures a view of SpaceX’s Falcon cargo spacecraft at a distance of 30 meters. (NASA TV via msnbc.com) View high resolution

Private spacecraft becomes 1st to visit International Space Station

The International Space Station crew successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the station’s robotic arm at 9:56 a.m. EDT, NASA says. This is the 1st time a commercial spacecraft has visited the International Space Station.

More updates on breakingnews.com.

Photo: A camera on the International Space Station captures a view of SpaceX’s Falcon cargo spacecraft at a distance of 30 meters. (NASA TV via msnbc.com)