June 21, 2011
 Taken during mobility testing on June 3, 2011, this image is of the
Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, inside the Spacecraft Assembly
Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Preparations continue for shipping the rover to NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida in June
and for its fall 2011 launch. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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June 21, 2011
 The NASA logo on Bldg. 703 at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
in Palmdale, Calif., is reflected in the 2.5-meter primary mirror of
the SOFIA observatory's telescope. SOFIA--the Stratospheric Observatory
for Infrared Astronomy-- is an airborne observatory, built to complement
the Hubble, Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes, as well as major
Earth-based telescopes. SOFIA features a German-built 100-inch (2.5
meter) diameter far-infrared telescope weighing 20 tons mounted in the... Continue reading...
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June 21, 2011
 NASA continued preparations for the future of space exploration with the
installation of a 35,000-gallon liquid oxygen tank atop the A-3 Test
Stand under construction at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The
300-foot tall stand is being built to test next-generation rocket
engines
capable of carrying humans beyond low-Earth orbit into deep space.
Construction of the stand began in 2007, with completion and activation
scheduled for 2013. The A-3 stand is the first large test structure... Continue reading...
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June 13, 2011
 A Delta II rocket launches with the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft payload
from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on
Friday, June 10, 2011. The joint U.S./Argentinian Aquarius/Satélite de
Aplicaciones CientÃficas (SAC)-D mission, set to launch June 10,
will map the salinity at the ocean surface, information critical to
improving our understanding of two major components of Earth's climate
system: the water cycle and ocean circulation. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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June 13, 2011
 Work on the heat shield and thermal protection backshell of the Multi
Purpose Crew Vehicle ground test article, or GTA, was completed in
preparation for environmental testing. This image is of the crew vehicle
at the Lockheed Martin Vertical Test Facility in Colorado. The crew
vehicle will undergo rigorous testing to confirm its ability to safely
fly astronauts through all the harsh environments of deep space
exploration missions. Image Credit: NASA Continue reading...
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June 13, 2011
 The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan early Wednesday, June 8, 2011, (4:12 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June
7) carrying Expedition 28 Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov of Russia, NASA
Flight Engineer Mike Fossum and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency) Flight
Engineer Satoshi Furukawa to the International Space Station. Image
Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi Continue reading...
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June 13, 2011
 Newly released portraits show the International Space Station
together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the
complex during the last decade. The pictures are the first taken of a
shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz
spacecraft. On May 23, the Soyuz was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry
Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency
astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth. Once their vehicle was about 600
feet from the... Continue reading...
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June 13, 2011
 Launch pad engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are
dwarfed by the gantry mechanisms at the base of the Soyuz TMA-02M rocket
following its rollout to the pad on Sunday, June 5, 2011. The rocket is
being prepared for launch June 8 to carry the crew of Expedition 28 to
the
International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
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June 13, 2011
 The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft is seen at the launch pad after being
raised into vertical position on Sunday, June 5, 2011, at the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with
Expedition 28 Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov of Russia, NASA Flight
Engineer Mike
Fossum and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer
Satoshi Furukawa is scheduled for Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Image Credit:
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May 30, 2011
 With components of the International Space Station in the view, NASA
astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and Michael Fincke are pictured during
the STS-134 mission's third spacewalk. They coordinated their shared
activity with NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, who stayed in communication
with the pair and with Mission Control Center in Houston from inside the
station. Image Credit: NASA
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