• Dragon Lands On Earth

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    The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down this morning at 11:42 am EDT in the Pacific Ocean. A press conference will be held at 2:00 pm EDT today.

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  • ALMA Turns Its Eyes to Centaurus A

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  • Preparations Underway for X-37B Landing

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  • Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center Astronomy Magazine

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  • Michael Duncan

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  • Gamma-ray Beams Blast from Milky Way's Center

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  • Waking Up on Mars With the Sun's Rays

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  • July 2012 How we could travel to the nearest star Astronomy Magazine

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  • SpaceX Dragon attached to space station in spaceflight first Astronomy Magazine

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  • Astronomy tests Orion†s grab-and-go refractor Astronomy Magazine

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  • New Photos: ISS Captures Dragon

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    : Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets New Photos : ISS Captures Dragon By Keith Cowing Posted May 29, 2012 3:07 PM View Comments NASA TV Dragon Approaches the ISS Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers grappled Dragon at 9:56 a.m . EDT with the Canadarm2 robotic arm and used the robotic arm to berth Dragon to the Earth-facing side of the station's Harmony node at 12:02 p.m . May 25, 2012. Dragon became the first commercially developed space vehicle to be launched to the station to join Russian , European and Japanese resupply craft

  • Double Standards and Sour Grapes From the Romney/Griffin Camp

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  • Official NASA Langley Cold Fusion Video Now Online

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  • The week in pictures May 19–25, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • ISS Captures and Berths Dragon

    Updated: 2012-05-25 14:03:13
    The International Space Station crew successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 9:56 am EDT. It was berthed to the ISS exactly 3 hours later. - First Images of Dragon Captured by ISS - Images: Berthing Dragon

  • Weighing An Asteroid

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    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Weighing An Asteroid By Keith Cowing Posted May 24, 2012 10:26 PM View Comments A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , Calif . has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away . The celestial equivalent of guess your weight was achieved by Steve Chesley of JPL's Near-Earth Object Program Office by utilizing data from three NASA assets the Goldstone Solar System Radar in the California desert , the orbiting Spitzer Space telescope , and the NASA-sponsored Arecibo

  • NASA Receives Concepts for Future Mars Missions

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  • Dragon Heads For ISS Arrival

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  • Open cluster NGC 6067, planetary nebula NGC 6072, and barred spiral galaxy NGC 5921 Astronomy Magazi

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  • Obama to Romney: Will You Fire Mike Griffin?

    Updated: 2012-05-24 21:06:08
    : Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Obama to Romney : Will You Fire Mike Griffin By Keith Cowing on May 24, 2012 5:06 PM View Comments Will Mitt Romney Fire Space Advisor Michael Griffin For Proposing Permanent Moon Base BarackObama.com While speaking to Global Space Exploration Conference in Washington D.C . on Tuesday , Romney Space Advisor Michael Griffin renewed his calls for a permanent base on

  • Dragon Mission Is Nominal

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    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Dragon Mission Is Nominal By Keith Cowing on May 24, 2012 12:11 PM View Comments SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Completes Key Tests In Quest to Visit Space Station Most Difficult Challenges Still Ahead SpaceX Today , Space Exploration Technologies' SpaceX Dragon spacecraft completed key on-orbit tests as part of a historic attempt to be the first commercial company in

  • Preserving History on The Moon

    Updated: 2012-05-24 15:43:16
    NASA Offers Guidelines To Protect Historic Sites On The Moon "NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing and future science on the moon. The foundation will take the guidelines into account as it judges mobility plans submitted by 26 teams vying to be the first privately-funded entity to visit the moon."

  • SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Flies Under the International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-05-24 15:41:46
    The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched by the Falcon 9 rocket on May 22 is seen flying under the International Space Station at a distance of about 1.5 miles on May 24. While in this ISS "zone," tests verified rendezvous and communications capabilities between the uncrewed capsule and the orbiting laboratory.

  • Crater Copernicus In All Its Glory

    Updated: 2012-05-24 14:01:22
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Crater Copernicus In All Its Glory By Keith Cowing on May 24, 2012 10:01 AM View Comments Iconic Lunar Orbiter Image of Copernicus Re-released LOIRP Today an iconic image from the initial exploration of the Moon is being re-released showing detail that could not have been seen using technology available at the time the photo was taken . This image features a

  • Seeing An Eclipse From The Other Side of the Sky

    Updated: 2012-05-23 02:43:39
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Seeing An Eclipse From The Other Side of the Sky By Keith Cowing Posted May 22, 2012 10:43 PM View Comments NASA Moon's Shadow Moves Across Earth This is one of a series of photos taken by Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station , at the time located over the Western Pacific , showing a shadow of the moon created by the May 20 solar eclipse , as the shadow spreads across cloud cover on . Earth Pettit used a 28-mm lens on a digital still camera to record the image at 23:36:45 GMT .

  • More NASA Network Break-ins (Update)

    Updated: 2012-05-22 23:10:10
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  • Sun and Moon Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • SN 2010jl in 60 Seconds

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    Skip to Main Content Untitled Document NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy .

  • Media Galleries Astronomy Community

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