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October 11, 2014

NASA Parachute Engineers Have Appetite for Destruction
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2014
Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are bound and determined to destroy a perfectly good parachute this week during the latest test for the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project. The parachute to be tested at the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in California is the same 100-foot (30.5-meter) parachute design that flew during the first supersonic flight of LDSD this past summer. That test took place in June in Kauai, Hawaii, at the U.S. Navy's P ... read more

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NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit Insertion

NASA spacecraft to begin orbiting Mars within days

MAVEN on course for Mars Arrival Sept 21

India's spacecraft 'on target' to reach Mars

Martian meteorite yields more evidence of the possibility of life on Mars

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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover reaches 'far frontier'

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain

Mars Rover Opportunity's Vista Includes Long Tracks

Flash-Memory Reformat On Opportunity Underway

MAVEN Spacecraft Makes Final Preparations For Mars

Robots do battle over Mars exploration

Opportunity Flash-Memory Reformat Planned

Memory Reformat Planned for Opportunity Mars Rover

NASA deep-space rocket, SLS, to launch in 2018

Scientist uncovers red planet's climate history in unique meteorite

A Salty, Martian Meteorite Offers Clues to Habitability

NASA Completes Review of Powerful New Rocket

Opportunity Mars Rover Suffers a Series of Resets

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