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NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bolden visited the La Cañada...
Tags: Science and Technology, Barack Obama, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Google Inc.
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Space budget takes a hit
President Obama's budget proposal, unveiled on Wednesday, would cut funding for planetary exploration at NASA by roughly $200 million, although it still funds several high profile missions being planned out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Barack Obama, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress, NASA Mars Exploration Program
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Student teams ace Mars plan at Caltech
It could take several months for aerospace experts to design a manned mission to a Martian moon. Students pulled off the feat in five days. Caltech hosted a competition on its Pasadena campus this week that divided 32 students from 21 different...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Buzz Aldrin, Manufacturing and Engineering, Stanford University, NASA
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Documentary captures early Mars missions' red-letter days
The car-sized rover Curiosity had a clean landing on Mars five months ago. But planetary missions didn’t always run so smoothly at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mariner 3, a probe sent to do a first-ever flyby in 1964, failed to get to...
Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Google Inc., Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Bill Nye, the (planetary) science guy, on NASA's future
What should the future of our space program be? The National Research Council had unpleasant medicine for NASA in its just-released report on the vision and direction of the agency. A panel of 12 independent experts concluded, among other things, that...
Tags: Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Satellite Technology, U.S. Congress, Bill Nye
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GRAIL mission delivers a hi-fi map of the moon
A pair of NASA orbiters has given scientists their highest-fidelity look at the moon, a leap that could help explain the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth. Scientists announced the first results Wednesday from the $496-...
Tags: Cape Canaveral, Scott Gold, Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Astronomy
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NASA on verge of losing its edge, report says
Years of trying to do too many things with too little money have put NASA at risk of ceding leadership in space exploration to other nations, according to a new report that calls on the space agency to make wrenching decisions about its long-term strategy...
Tags: Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Satellite Technology, U.S. Congress, NASA
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NASA to launch Mars rover in 2020, use Curiosity's spare parts
NASA will send another rover to Mars in 2020, using spare parts from Curiosity and the infamous “seven minutes of terror” landing sequence developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers for Curiosity’s August arrival on the Red Planet....
Tags: Adam Schiff, Science and Technology, Barack Obama, Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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NASA announces new Mars rover mission
NASA is sending another robot to Mars. The space agency announced a new mission Tuesday afternoon that will launch another rover at the Red Planet in 2020. Curiosity, their latest 1-ton rover, just begun a two-year mission in August. NASA announced...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Science and Technology, Google+, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Bacteria in space: San Marino students' experiment returns to Earth
Some children ask Santa for a pony. Others want video games. But Christmas came early for a group of San Marino High School science prodigies, with a special delivery from the International Space Station. The package: a plastic tube containing bacteria...
Tags: Students, Science and Technology, Education, Washington, DC, Teaching and Learning
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Mars rover Curiosity's other mission: PR
NASA's Curiosity rover was designed to search Mars for places capable of supporting life. But the $2.5-billion mission has another, unofficial objective: To serve as a goodwill ambassador for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge at a time...
Tags: Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Amina Khan, Princeton University, Apple iPhone
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GRAIL moon mission ends with a bang
After dancing around the moon for months, the twin satellites nicknamed Ebb and Flow performed their final number, crashing into the same peak near the lunar north pole and bringing the GRAIL mission to a close. A cheer went up in the control room at...
Tags: Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amina Khan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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