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NewsAstronomy (May 18, 2012) — NASA technologists will get a chance next summer to relive the good old days when Agency engineers would affix space-age gizmos to rockets just to see if the contraptions worked.

In what will be the first of four high-altitude balloon flights to begin in the summer of 20...

NewsAstronomy (Mar. 15, 2012) — A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested today by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The 20-second firing tested new insulation materials on the 24-inch...

NewsAstronomy (May 4, 2012) — Tübingen Geoscientist Dr. Christian Schröder is part of a team which today revealed exciting new information garnered from information sent back from Mars. Late last year, the NASA Mars Rover Opportunity found what appeared to be veins of gypsum when examining the edge o...

NewsAstronomy (Apr. 11, 2012) — New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs -- monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans -- may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe. "We would be better off not meet...