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Curiosity Majestically Blasts off on ‘Mars Trek’ to ascertain ‘Are We Alone?’

November 27, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Atop a towering inferno of sparkling flames and billowing ash, Humankinds millennial long quest to ascertain “Are We Alone ?” soared skywards today (Nov. 26) with a sophisticated spaceship named ‘Curiosity’ – NASA’s newest, biggest and most up to date robotic [...]

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Curiosity Rover ‘Locked and Loaded’ for Quantum Leap in Pursuit of Martian Microbial Life

November 25, 2011

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, the most technologically complex and scientifically capable robot built by humans to explore the surface of another celestial body, is poised to liftoff on Nov. 26 and will enable a quantum leap in mankind’s pursuit of Martian microbes and signatures of life beyond Earth. “The Mars Science Lab and the rover [...]

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Juno Jupiter Orbiter poised at Launch Pad for Aug. 5 Blastoff

August 5, 2011

The Atlas V rocket that will power NASA’s new Juno science probe to Jupiter was rolled out to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 and now sits poised for blastoff on Friday, Aug. 5 at 15:34 UT (11:34 a.m. EDT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V booster rocket [...]

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Solar Powered Jupiter bound JUNO lands at Kennedy Space Center for blastoff

April 17, 2011

Juno, NASA’s next big mission bound for the outer planets, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to kick off the final leg of launch preparations in anticipation of blastoff for Jupiter this summer. The huge solar-powered Juno spacecraft will skim to within 4800 kilometers (3000 miles) of the cloud tops of Jupiter to study [...]

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Spectacular Sunset Launch of new US Spy Satellite

March 12, 2011

A Delta IV rocket carrying a top secret military payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) blasted off Friday evening (March 11) at 6:38 p.m. from Cape Canaveral at Space Launch Complex-37 in Florida. The NROL-27 payload supports the national defense and all information about its mission and goals is a classified military secret. Some [...]

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