NASA
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PublishedApril 19, 2021
NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
It was a brief hop — just 39 seconds — but accomplished all the major milestones.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2021
NASA gives the all clear: Earth safe from menacing asteroid for 100 years
First detected in 2004, Apophis is now officially off NASA's asteroid 'risk list.'
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2021
Brunswick scientist on rover team, ‘telling the story of Mars’ one grain of sand at a time
Aileen Yingst is part of a team of scientists operating the Perseverance rover's camera and other instruments designed to search for signs of past life on Mars.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2021
Falmouth students look to the skies with rocket launch, NASA satellite
Maine's first CubeSat will include a payload created by Falmouth High School students to be launched by NASA in 2022. In the meantime, the group is testing their payload aboard bluShift Aerospace's trial launch of their Stardust 1.0 rocket.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2020
Our View: Maine astronaut reaches beyond her childhood dreams
Jessica Meir, who recently realized her dream of conducting a spacewalk, is on a short list to go to the moon, with Mars perhaps to come.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2020
NASA’s new rover blasts off on mission to Mars, searching for ancient life
Perseverance is the successor to the still-operating Curiosity rover, which has made breakthrough discoveries, including complex organic molecules of the type that could be associated with living things.
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PublishedMay 26, 2020
Thunderstorms could scrub historic SpaceX launch on Wednesday of 2 NASA astronauts
The rocket launch, set for 4:33 p.m. ET, will send astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the Space Station.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2020
Hunting for ‘marsquakes,’ NASA lander finds surprisingly active red planet
The InSight's seismometer picked up 174 marsquakes through Sept. 30, including more than 20 measuring magnitude 3 to magnitude 4.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2020
Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101
Johnson worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2020
Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture 1st look at sun’s poles
Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter will come within 26 million miles of the sun, well within the orbit of Mercury.
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