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This file artist's rendering provided by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope. The Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space, NASA said Wednesday, May 15, 2013.
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This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space Sunday May 12, 2013.
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This image provided by NASA-TV shows the view from the Soyuz capsule as it approaches the International Space Station Thursday March 28, 2013. Chris Cassidy of the United States and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin traveled six hours in the capsule before linking up with the space station's Russian Rassvet research module over the Pacific Ocean, just off Peru. It was the first time a space crew has taken such a direct route to the orbiting lab. Cassidy, Vinogradov and Misurkin are the first crew to reach the station after only four orbits instead of the standard 50-hour flight to reach the station. (AP Photo/NASA)
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This image provided by NASA shows an image captured by NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory of a blast of plasma streaming from the sun in August 2012.
This photo made available by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 shows a 68-mile-diameter crater, large indentation at center, in the north polar region of Mercury which has been shown to harbor water ice, thanks to measurements by the Messenger spacecraft. Scientists made the announcement Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)
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An United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Wednesday evening, Jan. 30, 2013 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The rocket is carrying the latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite for NASA. This is the 11th TDRS (T-driss) satellite to be launched by NASA. The space agency uses the orbiting network to communicate with the astronauts living on the International Space Station. The satellites also relay all the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. (AP Photo/Florida Today, Craig Bailey)
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is pictured in a handout self-portrait, Feb. 3, 2013.
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This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover's first use of the scoop on its robotic arm. In the foreground, near the bottom of the image, a bright object is visible on the ground. NASA says it is likely a piece of plastic from the Curiosity rover. Oct. 8, 2012.
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, takes part in the mission outside the International Space Station on Sept. 5, 2012. During the six-hour, 28-minute spacewalk, Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide (visible in the reflections of Williams's helmet visor) completed the installation of an electrical switching unit.
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LIFE's Ralph Morse -- who photographed the space race and NASA astronauts for more than a decade -- recently told LIFE that even 50 years later, he fondly recalls the astrochimps. "Ham, especially, was a very friendly fellow," he said. "Those were great assignments, shooting the early years with NASA. You really got the sense that here were these incredibly smart people just working their tails off to do something that had never been done before."Above: An unnamed chimpanzee during Mercury training at Holloman.
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This NASA image released Sept. 5, 2012 shows the shadowy outlines of the terrain in Vesta's northern region in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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An undated photo released by NASA shows astronaut Sally Ride. Ride, the first American woman in space, will be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, hall officials announced Friday, Dec. 15, 2006.
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NASA astronuats, 1963: Bottom Row (from L): James Lovell Jr., James McDivitt, and Charrles Conrad Jr. Second Row: Elliot See Jr. and Major Thomas Stafford. Third Row: Captain Edward White II and Lt. Commander John Young. Top Row: Neil Armstrong and Major Frank Borman.
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In this image provided by NASA the Space Shuttle Endeavour is ferried by NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, 2012 as it departs for California.
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This undated image released by NASA shows an artist rendering of the Juno spacecraft circling Jupiter. The spacecraft planned to fire its engine on Aug. 30, 2012, the first of two engine burns to set it up for an Earth gravity assist next year. It's due to arrive at Jupiter in 2016.
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This full-field image of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is shown as released by NASA May 12, 2011. The Hubble image reveals a sequence of steps in the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters, evident in the glowing gas surrounding bright stellar clusters.
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This NASA image released Sept. 5, 2012 shows the shadowy outlines of the terrain in Vesta's northern region in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The image comes from the last sequence of images Dawn obtained of the giant asteroid Vesta as it departed the giant asteroid.
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May 25, 2012 - Image provided by NASA shows clouds The SpaceX Dragon capsule attaching with the International Space Station Friday. This is the first time a commercial company has accomplished this type of space operation.
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One of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on the evening of August 5, 2012 and transmitted to Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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The space shuttle Endeavour, atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies over Houston, Texas in this September 19, 2012 NASA handout photo. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, is flying Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era.
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In this photo provided by NASA, storm clouds roll over NASA's vehicle assembly building moments after the lauch of space shuttle Endeavor was scrubbed at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, July 12, 2009.
Lyman Alpha Mapping Project
These images produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in the regions that lie in perpetual darkness. They show many permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs, are darker at far-ultraviolet wavelengths (top inset) and redder than nearby surface areas that receive sunlight (bottom inset). The darker PSR regions are consistent with having large surface porosities -- indicating "fluffy" soils -- while the reddening is consistent with the presence of water frost on the surface.
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This image of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is produced by NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) mounted on the Terra satellite. It shows oil colored in silver, vegetation in red and water in light blue.
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This composite image provided by NASA Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008 of the Tycho supernova remnant combines infrared and X-ray observations obtained with NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space observatories, respectively, and the Calar Alto observatory, in Spain
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A chimp trains aboard a NASA aircraft in 1961. The astrochimps were not trained to "pilot" space capsules, but instead to perform routine tasks during suborbital flights, and to act, in the most elemental way, as test subjects -- facing little-known physical and psychological perils -- ahead of their human counterparts in the Mercury program and beyond.
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Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn trains in a mock-up of the planned NASA space capsule, 1959.
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This composite image released by NASA shows a panoramic view of Mount Sharp, made from dozens of images.
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is pictured in a handout self-portrait, Feb. 3, 2013.
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This image released by NASA shows the Curiosity rover holding a scoop of powdered rock on Mars.
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This image released by NASA shows the Curiosity rover holding a scoop of powdered rock on Mars.
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This frame grab made available by NASA TV shows a view of the SpaceX Dragon capsule on the end of the International Space Station's robotic arm, Sunday, March 3, 2013.
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NASA graphic depicts the Earth flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14.
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This image provided by NASA shows an artist rendering of the newfound planet known as Kepler-37b.
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Image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto.
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This image, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the mysterious gas cloud G0.253+0.016, which is the black object on the left.
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NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait on Oct. 31, 2012.
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, appears to touch the bright sun during the mission’s third session of extravehicular activity (EVA) on Sept. 5, 2012.
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide (out of frame), both Expedition 32 flight engineers, participate in a session of extravehicular activity Thursday Aug. 30, 2012 to continue outfitting the International Space Station.
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This set of NASA handout images compares the Link outcrop of rocks on Mars (L) with similar rocks seen on Earth (R).
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In this image from NASA TV, shot off a video screen, one of the first images from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars
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This illustration courtesy of NASA shows an artist's concept of NuSTAR, a sophisticated orbiting telescope that uses high-energy X-ray vision to hunt for black holes in the universe, poised to launch on June 13, 2012.
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and other instruments have helped catch the galaxy NGC 3801 in the act of destroying its cold, gaseous fuel for new stars.
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta on July 24, 2011
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011.
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A rocket carrying NASA's Mars-bound Curiosity rover lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Nov. 26, 2011
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft in orbit
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Sketches made by Dr. John C. Houbolt in 1961 for a lunar module, later adopted by NASA for Apollo 9.
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NASA has reportedly discovered a new life form, a bacteria that uses arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA, in Mono Lake, in eastern California
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An artists rendition of NASA's GRAIL mission to the moon
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this X-ray photo of the sun on Aug. 1, 2010
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NASA has found a superhot planet with a comet-like tail
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NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon
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President Barack Obama hugs NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), as he arrives to attend the event "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America."
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This image provided by NASA shows Tropical Cyclone Yasi as it approaches Queensland, Australia, Wednesday February 2, 2011
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A paper authored by a NASA scientist claims that a meteorite that slammed into France in the 1800s has evidence pointing to space-dwelling microbes
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A rocket sent by NASA to the moon crater Cabeus kicked up several hundred pounds of water, silver, mercury and other surprising chemicals
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Barack Obama and NASA administrator Michael Griffin,
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The seven astronauts of NASA's "Mercury" program: Walter Schirra, Donald Slayton, John Glenn, M. Scott Carpenter, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom and Gordon Cooper
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An illustration shows the NASA space probe New Horizons flying around Pluto with its moon Charon in the background
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PIMP YOUR LEM: NASA's planned lunar lander
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An artist's impression of Kepler 62f provided by NASA on April 18, 2013.
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Lights across the Earth are pictured in this NASA handout satellite image obtained by Reuters December 5, 2012.
Jeffrey Lovell, son of astronaut Jim Lovell, listens to the NASA “squawk box” at home during the Apollo 13 crisis, April 1970.
Jeffrey Lovell, son of astronaut Jim Lovell, listens to the NASA "squawk box" at home during the Apollo 13 crisis, April 1970.
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This Oct. 5, 2011 satellite photo from a NASA website shows algae blooms swirling on Lake Erie
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This Thursday, May 24, 2012 image made from video provided by NASA-TV shows the International Space Station taken from the thermal imaging camera aboard the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it approaches the station.
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Four computer generated views of Asteroid Toutatis based on Goldstone radar imagery. Via NASA
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This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted such a disk around a surprisingly low-mass brown dwarf, or "failed star."
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An artist's depiction of Ebb and Flow, the twin spacecraft that comprise NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.
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Rene Carpenter, the wife of NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter, watches his orbital flight on TV in 1962.
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This artist's concept depicts the moment that NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface
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Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, 1959. Cooper, who retired from both NASA and the Air Force (as a colonel) in 1970, was the last Mercury astronaut launched into space, and spent more time aloft during his May 1963 mission (34-plus hours) than all five previous flights combined.
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Hurricane Sandy is seen moving towards the east coast of the United States in this NASA handout satellite image taken on October 29, 2012.
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Hurricane Sandy is seen moving towards the east coast of the United States in this NASA satellite image taken on Oct. 29, 2012.
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Hurricane Sandy is seen moving towards the east coast of the United States in this NASA handout satellite image taken on October 29, 2012.
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In this still image made from video provided by NASA, the methane-powered Morpheus lander burns after it crashed in a test flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012.
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This image dated Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012 and provided by NASA shows the Curiosity rover's wheel tracks on the surface of Mars an image sent from one of the rover's cameras.
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This set of six images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
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Curiosity, fully assembled with all primary flight hardware and instruments, at NASA's space-simulation chamber at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on March 8, 2011.
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A model of a space capsule simulates the return to Earth in a NASA lab, 1961.
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One of only thirteen American women — known as the Mercury 13 — to participate in NASA's Mercury space program, Jerrie Cobb (left) barbecues in 1959.
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In this July 16, 1969 file photo provided by NASA, the Saturn V rocket that launched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their Apollo 11 moon mission lifts off at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
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President Richard Nixon, right, and NASA administrator James Fletcher discussing the space-shuttle program in San Clemente, Calif., on Jan. 5, 1972
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Sketch made by Dr. John C. Houbolt in 1961 shows a modular concept much like the one that was ultimately adopted by NASA for the Lunar Excursion Module.
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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity members raise their arms celebrate the landing of Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.
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These four images of Neptune were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during the planet's 16-hour rotation on June 25-26, 2011.
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Space shuttle Atlantis sits on Complex 39A as NASA prepares to load the payload into the orbiter at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on June 17, 2011.
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An artist's rendering of the Space Launch System, NASA's advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new capability for human exploration
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A photo of the crater Endeavour's west rim from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity
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This artist's concept shows a possible scenario for the internal structure of Titan, as suggested by data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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In a brief encounter on Nov. 4, 2010, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft fired over 100,000 pictures of the comet Hartley 2
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With the Earth visible in the vast distance above the moon's bleak horizon, Apollo 11's lunar module ascends toward the command module (piloted by NASA astronaut Michael Collins while Armstrong and Aldrin were on the lunar surface).
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This artist's illustration provided by NASA shows what the brightest supernova ever recorded, known as SN 2006gy, may have looked like when it exploded.
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The space shuttle Atlantis is seen on launch pad 39a of the NASA Kennedy Space Center shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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A woman walks away from a makeshift memorial outside NASA's Johnson Space Center
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"The View from Above" An image from the NASA Satellite 'Aqua' shows the devastation of the fires across the country.
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The space shuttle "Atlantis" lifts off on a mission to NASA's Hubble Telescope from its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 11
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U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Dr. Wernher von Braun and other NASA scientists
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President George W. Bush delivers a major address on U.S. space programs at NASA headquarters
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At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., workers from Ball Aerospace check the star trackers on NASA's Kepler spacecraft before testing
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