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Station news conference
The five crew members aboard the International Space Station answer questions from reporters in the U.S. and Europe during this in-flight news conference. (20min 26sec file)
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Gravity Probe-B flies
The Boeing Delta 2 rocket launches with NASA's Gravity Probe-B spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. (4min 16sec file)
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Atlas launches Superbird
The Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket launches the Japanese Superbird 6 communications spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (3min 09sec file)
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Lion King panorama
The stunning "Lion King" high-resolution color panorama from the Opportunity rover shows the vast landing site. Expert narration by Jason Soderblom, science team collaborator. (2min 12sec file)
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Opportunity trench
Opportunity rover uses one of its wheels to dig another trench in the soil for science investigations. Narration by Jan Chodas, flight software manager. (25sec file)
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April 14 rover briefing
The software overhaul performed on both Mars rovers, new science information and photographs are discussed at this briefing from Wednesday, April 14. (31min 29sec file)
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Changing NASA's culture
Administrator Sean O'Keefe holds a discussion with agency workers around the country about organizational culture change at NASA. (56min 12sec file)
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Sunday: April 25, 2004  0227 GMT
Four ways to see Saturn
A montage of Cassini images, taken in four different regions of the spectrum from ultraviolet to near-infrared, demonstrates that there is more to Saturn than meets the eye. Cassini is two months away from entering orbit around Saturn.
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Saturday: April 24, 2004  0307 GMT
Researcher predicts Jupiter spots will disappear
If a University of California, Berkeley, physicist's vision of Jupiter is correct, the giant planet will be in for a major global temperature shift over the next decade as most of its large vortices disappear.
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Status check shows Gravity Probe B in good shape
Gravity Probe B - the newly-launched NASA mission to test two predictions of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity - is orbiting 400 miles above Earth, and all spacecraft systems are performing well.
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Friday: April 23, 2004  0257 GMT
Lure of the rings
Resembling a diamond-encrusted bracelet, a ring of brilliant blue star clusters wraps around the yellowish nucleus of what was once a normal spiral galaxy in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Satellites serve as thermometers in space
Like thermometers in space satellites are taking the temperature of the Earth's surface or skin. According to scientists, the satellite data confirms the Earth has had an increasing "fever" for decades.
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Thursday: April 22, 2004  1615 GMT
NASA mulls new problem with station gyroscopes
NASA managers are discussing repair options for an eventual spacewalk to restart a space station gyroscope that shut down Wednesday when an electronic control module malfunctioned. The massive gyroscope itself is healthy, officials say, and spare control modules are available on board. But the remote power control module, or RPCM, in question is located on an exterior truss and a spacewalk will be needed to install a replacement.
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Congressman urges slower approach to new space plan
An influential member of Congress said Wednesday that he believed NASA should adopt a slower approach to its new space exploration program because of budget concerns.
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Chandra reveals two faces of supernova power
The Chandra X-ray Observatory has clearly shown two aspects of the enormous power released when a massive star explodes. An implosion crushed material into an extremely dense neutron star, triggering an explosion that sent a shock wave rumbling through space at speeds in excess of 5 million miles per hour.
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Wednesday: April 21, 2004  0842 GMT
Soyuz delivers new residents to space station
After a two-day orbital chase, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the international space station early Wednesday, bringing a fresh crew to the outpost for a planned six-month stay. But U.S. and Russian managers are at loggerheads over how long the next crew, scheduled for launch in October, will be on board.
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Spacecraft launched to test Albert Einstein's theories
A slender Boeing Delta 2 rocket boosted NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft into polar orbit Tuesday, kicking off a $700 million mission to precisely measure how gravity warps and twists the fabric of space and time.
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The case of the electric martian dust devils
Scientists have found clues dust devils on Mars might have high-voltage electric fields, based on observations of their terrestrial counterpart. This research supports the vision for space exploration by helping to understand challenges the martian environment presents to explorers, both robotic and, eventually, human.
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JSAT orders satellite from Lockheed Martin -- Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by JSAT Corporation of Japan to build its next geostationary telecommunications satellite, designated JCSAT-10, which will provide communications services throughout Japan and Asia following its scheduled launch in 2006.
Tuesday: April 20, 2004  0118 GMT
Gravity Probe launch reset after Monday's cliffhanger
NASA's Gravity Probe-B spacecraft that will test Einstein's theories of the universe gets another shot at launch today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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Intermediate mass black hole mystery resolved
New research solved the mystery of how a black hole, with the mass more than several hundreds times larger than that of our Sun, could be formed in the nearby starburst galaxy, M82.
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First aerospike engine flight test successful
NASA, the U.S. Air Force and Blacksky Corporation joined forces on the prairie lands of West Texas recently to fly small aerospike rocket nozzles. The effort yielded big returns, providing the first known data from a solid-fueled aerospike rocket in flight.
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ILS scores triple play to launch 3 satellites
International Launch Services announced Monday a contract with SES AMERICOM and SES ASTRA to launch three satellites in 2005 and 2006 -- one aboard an Atlas 5 rocket and two using Proton boosters.
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Monday: April 19, 2004  1710 GMT
Delta rocket launch of Gravity Probe-B scrubbed
After 40 years of development, the Gravity Probe-B spacecraft will spend one more day on Earth because high-altitude winds over the California launch site caused trouble during Monday's countdown.
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Next space station crew rockets into orbit on Soyuz
A Soyuz rocket carrying the international space station's next crew roared to life and rocketed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late Sunday, kicking off the ninth expedition to the orbital outpost.
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News Archive
April 12-18: Hubble observes planetoid Sedna as mystery deepens; Invisible giants exposed in new Spitzer image; Japanese Superbird soars to space atop Atlas launcher; Cassini spots Saturn moons; Mars rover finds rock like meteorites on Earth; SOHO sees its 750th comet.

April 5-11: Mars rovers have missions extended through Sept.; Successful X-43A mission proves scramjets work; Saturn moon casts 'once-in-a-lifetime' shadow; Cassini watches as two storms merge on Saturn; Stars appear as grains of sand in nearby galaxy.

March 29-April 4: Spirit finds hints of past water at Gusev site; Probe confirms methane in the Martian atmosphere; Cassini examines high winds on Saturn; Radio astronomers lift 'fog' on Milky Way's dark heart; Hunt for extrasolar Earth-like planets intensifies.

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