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It's a blast: Va. students launch experiments into space

Teams from the Naval Academy and colleges across the country have built science experiments that will be loaded into a rocket and launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

Wednesday - 06/19/2013, 09:07pm EDT

Tags: wallops island, michelle basch, nasa, science experiments, Wallops Flight Facility, Keith Koehler

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Remembering Sally Ride's historic launch into space

Thirty years ago, Sally Ride shattered a glass ceiling high above the Earth as she became the first American woman to fly into space.

Tuesday - 06/18/2013, 02:49pm EDT

Tags: Sally Ride, nasa, space shuttle program, women in history, dick uliano, pancreatic cancer

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Virgin Galactic launches passenger trip into space

A new crop of astronauts are headed to space. And you could be one of them.

Saturday - 06/01/2013, 11:32pm EDT

Tags: Randi Martin, Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, SpaceshipTwo

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'Stardust' animation shows moving, artistic space scenes

There is a captivating, powerful beauty in the intersection of science and art.

Monday - 02/04/2013, 10:18am EST

Tags: stardust, Heather Brady, Science

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Billions and billions of planets in the universe

A new study by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology has determined that our very own Milky Way Galaxy has at least 100 BILLION planets, or to put it another way, one planet per star. That is a lot of planets!

Sunday - 01/06/2013, 03:26pm EST

Tags: Milky Way Galaxy, Planets, space exploration

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Live stream: The Quadrantid meteor shower

The late evening hours and early morning hours of Jan. 2 and 3 are the best times to view the Quadrantid meteor shower in the northern hemisphere. A live stream of the meteor shower is available below.

Wednesday - 01/02/2013, 09:56pm EST

Tags: Quadrantid meteor shower, meteor shower, nasa

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