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KSC-05-S-00036 (02/03/2005) --- With a reputation for ingenious creativity and clever innovation, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California is a center known for its daring robotic missions to Mars and beyond. JPL's prosperous history dates back to the 1930s. The foundation for the laboratory was laid in the city of Pasadena by the California Institute of Technology. A curious group of university researchers was interested in experimenting with rocket engines. The risk of explosions caused campus leaders to send the group a few miles away, to the Arroyo Seco wash at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00196 (06/15/2004) --- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is unraveling the mystery of how the Earth evolved out of space dust. New Spitzer images have revealed significant amounts of icy dust particles, that may help explain the origin of planet-forming discs. Sprinkled throughout the dusky clouds, almost 14,000 light-years from Earth, are more than 300 never-before-seen newborn stars. NASA scientists are finding that stars are being born inside a dense, icy veil of planet-forming, or "protoplanetary" gas and dust. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00188 (06/04/2004) --- Ahora en el noticiero NASA Direct: Un nuevo asistente robótico puede hacer la vida de los astronautas más fácil. Spitzer encuentra los ingredientes básicos para vida en estrellas lejanas. El planeta Venus pasará por enfrente del sol. Esta semana en la historia, la misión Gemini 4 experimentó la primera caminata espacial. Las noticias de NASA Direct comienzan ahora. Desde el Centro Espacial Kennedy en la Florida, les informan Juan Pablo Gordon e Ivette Rivera. Imaginase tener un robot que pudiera realizar algunas tareas cotidianas? Este concepto se está haciendo realidad con un nuevo robot desarrollado por científicos del Centro de Investigación Ames de NASA. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00187 (06/04/2004) --- Now, on NASA Direct News: A free-flying robot assistant could make life easier for astronauts. Spitzer finds the raw ingredients for life around distant stars. Venus is planning a rendezvous with the sun. This week in history, Gemini 4 featured America's first spacewalk. The NASA Direct News starts now! From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I'm Dave Breedlove. And I'm Cheryle Mako. Our top story, how would you like to have a robot to take care of a few day-to-day things for you? A new robot developed by scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center can be programmed to help out with a variety of tasks, both in space and on Earth. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00104 (04/16/2004) --- Esta semana en noticias de NASA Direct: El telescopio espacial de la NASA Spitzer captura imágenes de estrellas gigantes. Caja electrónica sin alambres graba información importante de funciones en el cuerpo humano. NASA desarrolla microscopio que permite a los científicos trabajar juntos en diferente lugares. Un ingeniero en el centro espacial Kennedy recibe alto premiación de NASA. Y el 12 de abril fue el aniversario de dos sucesos histórico espaciales. Las noticias de NASA Direct comienzan ahora! Desde el centro espacial Kennedy en la Florida, les hablan Jesús Ortiz. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00102 (04/16/2004) --- Now, on NASA Direct News: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captures images of giant stars. Wireless body monitor records crucial body functions. NASA developed microscope allows scientists to work together while miles apart. KSC engineer wins NASA's top invention of the year awards. And April 12 was the anniversary for two historical space firsts. The NASA Direct News starts now! From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I'm Tracy Young. And I'm Mike Rein. Our top story: Located in our Milky Way, 10,000 light years away in the Cygnus constellation, Spitzer has discovered the most violent pockets of stars in our galaxy shrouded in cosmic dust. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00101 (04/16/2004) --- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the most violent stars in our galaxy, veiled in cosmic dust. For the first time scientists are seeing gigantic stars, some, 100,000 times as bright as our Sun. Located in the Cygnus constellation 10,000 light years away, a region called DR21 which is buried in so much space dust that no visible light escapes it. Only with Spitzer's highly-sensitive, infrared detectors are astronomers able to see the stellar nursery being born inside a blanket of clouds. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00064 (03/17/2004) --- NASA’s researchers have found the most distant object known to orbit our Sun. The planet-like object is three-fourths the size of Pluto and is in the coldest region of the Solar System. Temperatures never rise above minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Named Sedna, for the Inuit Goddess, the planetoid gets even colder as it travels in its 10,500 year orbit. At its farthest distance, Sedna is 84 billion miles away from the Sun. Dr Michael Brown/ NASA’s Associate Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology (One of the very exciting things to me as an astronomer about this object is that we think it’s the first object detected in the Oort cloud, which is a cloud of comets that was hypothesized in 1950 and nothing has been seen of that cloud in that time and we think this is the first thing that really proves the existence of that cloud of comets. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00063 (03/12/2004) --- Ahora en el noticiero NASA Direct: Los vehículos de exploración de Marte encuentran más evidencia de agua en el planeta rojo. Nuevas imágenes de una familia de estrellas y la explosión que las creó. Hielo derretido puede poner partes de los Estados Unidos y Europa en un estado de congelamiento profundo. Y científicos embarcan en una expedición aerotransportada para descubrir civilizaciones antiguas. Las noticias de NASA Direct comienzan ahora. Desde el centro espacial Kennedy en la Florida, yo soy Rosaly Janira Santos-Ebaugh. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00062 (03/12/2004) --- Is there life out there? That question is still our greatest mystery, but NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has just taken an amazing photograph depicting the cycle of life and death in a galaxy 163,000 light years away. The image taken is of Henize 206, a cloud of gas and dust that was formed when a star exploded millions of years ago. The cloud, what astronomers call a nebula, is now forming hundred, possibly thousands of new stars in a cycle that takes place all over the known universe. The false-color image taken by Spitzer shows the new young stars as bright white spots, among the gas and dust of the nebula, colored red, green and blue. Read more...

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KSC-04-S-00060 (03/12/2004) --- Now, on NASA Direct News: The Mars Exploration Rovers find more evidence of water on Mars. New images of a family of stars and the explosion that created them. Melting ice may put parts of the United States and Europe in a deep freeze. And scientists embark on an airborne expedition to discover ancient civilizations. The NASA Direct News starts now! From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I'm Wanda Harding. And I'm Cheryle Mako. Our top story, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers uncovered even more signs of past water on the red planet. Read more...

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KSC-03-S-00107 (12/19/2003) --- The spacecraft once known as the Space Infrared Space Telescope Facility or SIRTF has a new name and its first images. The Spitzer Space Telescope is named after Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr. the first scientist to propose putting telescopes in space. The Spitzer looks at the cosmos with an infrared eye, to see the radiation or heat from the most distant, cold and dust-obscured objects. New images exposed new young stars; star-studded arms of a nearby galaxy, a massive disc of dusty planet-forming debris, and for the first time-- the presence of water and molecules from a star - when life on Earth first began. Read more...

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KSC-03-S-00102 (12/12/2003) --- NASA is celebrating 2003, as another outstanding year for its Expendable Launch Vehicle or ELV Program. Since January, eight ELV launches have successfully propelled spacecraft and payloads toward the heavens and their distant destinations. Although technical difficulties delayed the Mars “Opportunity” Rover and the Space Infrared Telescope Facility launches, NASA engineers analyzed and repaired the problems, resulting in flawless lift-offs. Since 1987 NASA’s ELV success rate has been 98.5%, meaning 67 out of 68 launches were successes. Read more...

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KSC-03V-0480 (08/25/2003) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) lifts off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Aug. 25 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT aboard a Delta II Heavy launch vehicle. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF will be the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. It is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories.” Its highly sensitive instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

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KSC-03PP-2428 (08/25/2003) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) lifts off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Aug. 25 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF will be the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. It is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories.” Its highly sensitive instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

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KSC-03PP-2427 (08/25/2003) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) lifts off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Aug. 25 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF will be the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. It is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories.” Its highly sensitive instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

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KSC-03PP-2426 (08/25/2003) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) lifts off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Aug. 25 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF will be the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. It is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories.” Its highly sensitive instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

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KSC-03PD-2425 (08/25/2003) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) lifts off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Aug. 25 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF will be the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. It is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories.” Its highly sensitive instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

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KSC-03PD-2424 (08/25/2003) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) lifts off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Aug. 25 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF will be the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. It is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories.” Its highly sensitive instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

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KSC-03PD-2423 (08/25/2003) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) lifts off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Aug. 25 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF will be the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. It is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories.” Its highly sensitive instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

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