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December 23, 2013

NASA Testing Modified 'Pumpkin Suit' For Asteroid Mission Spacewalks

Suits Being Evaluated In Agency's Neutral Buoyancy Tank

NASA is taking steps to make spacewalking on an asteroid a reality. In the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers are testing a modified version of the pumpkin-orange Advanced Crew Escape System (ACES) worn by space shuttle astronauts during launch and reentry for use by future crew in the Orion spacecraft.

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Solar Ultraviolet Imager Ready To Fly On NOAA Satellite

Lockheed Martin To Deliver The Instrument In January

A Lockheed Martin team has completed the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument that will make crucial solar measurements when it flies on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite missions, known as the GOES-R series.

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Final Webb Telescope Mirrors Arrive At Goddard

Eighteen Beryllium Primary Mirror Segments Ready For Telescope Integration

The final three of eighteen primary mirrors built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have arrived at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD for integration prior to a scheduled launch in 2018.

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NASA Engineers Crush Fuel Tank To Build Better Rockets

Goal Is To Make SLS System Lighter And More Affordable

NASA completed a series of high-tech can-crushing tests last week as an enormous fuel tank crumbled under the pressure of almost a million pounds of force, all in the name of building lighter, more affordable rockets.

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NASA's Deep Space Network Turns 50

Has Communicated With Nearly Every Space Mission To The Moon And Beyond

NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th anniversary of its official creation. Over the past 50 years, antennas of the Deep Space Network (DSN) have communicated with just about every mission that has gone to the moon or beyond. The historic communiqués include "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind"; numerous encounters with the outer planets of our solar system; images taken by rovers exploring Mars; and the data confirming that NASA's Voyager spacecraft had finally entered interstellar space.

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