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An Alvin man, Richard J. Harmon, has been charged with fraud and indicted by a federal grand jury in a case involving a defective space shuttle part.
As astronauts prepared to launch to the International Space Station on Endeavour on Friday, NASA scientists bid farewell to the Phoenix Mars Lander, which ceased communication with Earth.
In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists have found vast, debris-covered glaciers much nearer the equatorial region than anyone had expected, according to a report Friday in the journal Science.
In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists have found vast, debris-covered glaciers much nearer the
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's revolutionary new water recycling system is having serious hiccups. The $154 million device for turning astronauts' urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the International Space Station shut down again yesterday, and engineers on the ground were scrambling to figure out what was wrong.
NASA says it is having problems with a new system on the International Space Station that is designed to convert urine into drinking water.
The answer to a Martian riddle -- where did all the water go? -- may lie in debris-covered ice found by ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists have found vast, debris-covered glaciers much nearer the equatorial region than anyone had expected, according to a ...
WASHINGTON - A radar instrument aboard a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ice age, scientists said on Thursday.
John Johnson Jr. | Los Angeles Times The glaciers, estimated to contain at least as much water as Lake Huron and possibly as much as the entire Great Lakes, were found by ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
LOS ANGELES — NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission.
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