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Reuters - A car-sized NASA spacecraft zoomed above the surface of Mercury on Monday, viewing rocky terrain never before seen up close on our solar system's sun-baked innermost planet, scientists said.
- SPACE.com - NASA is gearing up to launch a new spacecraft to probe the
fringe of the solar system this month where material from the sun hits the cold
expanse of space. - 
SPACE.com - A NASA probe made its second Mercury flyby early Monday as
closes in on the closest planet to the sun.
- SPACE.com - A NASA capsule that collected the first samples from a comet
has become part of a collection itself. - SPACE.com - The space
shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off two days early next month while engineers
on Earth continue to study a Hubble Space Telescope glitch that added months of
delay to a separate orbiter flight, NASA officials announced Friday. - 
AFP - A US space probe will fly over Mercury next week to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, NASA announced on Wednesday.
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vehicle's operative life is coming to a close, while the other's is still in
its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the
space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station's (ISS)
key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have
happened. - SPACE.com - Editor's
note: As NASA celebrates its 50th birthday today, the agency looks
back on a history of stunning successes while honoring those lost in its tragic
setbacks. Here, space commentator Jim Banke takes a look at what the future
might bring for America's space program in the 50 years to come. - SPACE.com - NASA
scientists hope to hear what it sounds like on the surface of Mars for the
first time when they attempt to switch on the Phoenix Mars Lander's microphone
in the next week or two, mission leaders announced on Monday. - 
LiveScience.com - The short answer: a lot. The long answer: depends on how you look at it.
Whatever your viewpoint, here's how $700 billion - the figure inked in the initial dead-in-the-water government bailout bill for Wall Street - compares to other vast sums.
NASA in fiscal year 2009 will launch several missions into space and pay for hundreds of people to operate a host of space telescopes and even remote robots on Mars and run a PR and media department that puts most large corporations to shame. The agency's budget: $17.6 billion, or 2.5 percent of the bailout sum. ...
- SPACE.com - GLASGOW, Scotland NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin
defended his agency's determination to establish a lunar colony before
embarking on a manned Mars mission Sept. 30, arguing that those who prefer to
focus only on Mars are overestimating what is known about the Moon and
underestimating the difficulties of going to Mars. - 
AFP - In an unprecedented discovery, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has found snow falling from clouds on Mars, scientists said Tuesday.
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AP - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its Martian landing site and spotted falling snow for the first time, scientists reported Monday. Soil experiments revealed the presence of two minerals known to be formed in liquid water. Scientists identified the minerals as calcium carbonate, found in limestone and chalk, and sheet silicate.
- SPACE.com - NASA has delayed the last shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until early 2009 in
order to repair a broken device that is blocking the orbital observatory from
sending its iconic images of the cosmos back to Earth, agency officials said
late Monday. - 
AFP - NASA has delayed the final service mission of the Atlantis space shuttle to the Hubble space telescope, probably until early 2009, after a "significant anomaly" occurred on the orbiting telescope.
