Scientists race to restore Calif.'s largest — and contaminated — freshwater lake
Scientists are racing to restore Clear Lake, California's largest freshwater lake, which has been struggling with algal ...
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NASA's First Chimp in Space
As part of Project Mercury, NASA prepared to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? (02:31 ...
Defying the Sun: NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Survives Another Fiery Encounter
Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...
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Women aviators, pilots, astronauts and scientists command in ‘S P A C E’ at Central Square Theater
The Mercury 13 – the 13 Americans who were part of a research program to test and screen women for spaceflight from 1959 to ...
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Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back stunning photos
a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew ...
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In pictures: Mercury spacecraft captures stunning new images of one of the least explored planets
The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.
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Mercury's North Pole Captured From BepiColombo Flyby
an Italian mathematician and engineer whose groundbreaking work in the 1960s helped shape NASA's Mariner 10 mission, the first spacecraft to fly by Mercury. Colombo's contributions to space ...