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  Lost in space: Tracking the tools
Nov. 26: NBC's Brian Williams reports on the bag of tools that went missing during a space expedition.
  Fireball!
Nov. 21: MSNBC's David Shuster reports on the bright meteor that flashed in the skies over Canada.
  The Hubble Story
What’s it like to fix the Hubble Space Telescope? Astronaut Story Musgrave explains it all for you.
  Touchdown on Mars
See the first pictures from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander – and the celebration back on Earth.
  Earth as art
Click through a collection of beautiful Earth imagery captured from orbit by the Landsat 7 satellte.
  Celebrating Saturn
Fresh images from the ringed planet mark the 10th anniversary of the Cassini orbiter’s launch.
  High-def Antarctica
Get a sampling of snapshots from the international LIMA database of Antarctic satellite imagery.
  The first moonshots
See the highlights from NASA’s digital archive of Lunar Orbiter imagery, collected in 1966-1967.
  How to build a moon base
Get a glimpse of experiments and concepts that are laying the groundwork for a lunar outpost.

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  See the universe
Postcards from Jupiter
NASA's New Horizons probe sends back snapshots of Jupiter and its moons, taken during a flyby.
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  Earth from space
An Earth Day selection of highlights from four decades of pictures taken by astronauts.
  Piles of 'Pillars'
See the famous "Pillars of Creation" in a new light.
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  Saturn Stunners
The greatest hits from the Cassini mission.
Image: Cassini picture
  Celebrating Saturn
More images mark the 10th anniversary of the Cassini orbiter’s launch to Saturn.
  Saturn's striped moon
Images of Saturn's moon, Enceladus, as captured by Cassini.
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  Two years on Mars
Greatest hits from NASA's twin rovers
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  A changing Mars
Mars Global Surveyor spots fresh deposits in gullies and other signs of a dynamic Red Planet.
Hubble's Hits
See the Hubble Space Telescope's best-known images.
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  Mars' greatest hits
See two decades' worth of Red Planet images.
  Jewels of Jupiter
See images of Jupiter and its moons.
Image: SpaceShipTwo
  Visions of flight
Get an inside look at the conception and construction of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.
NASA Unveils Design Recommendations For Next Generation Spacecraft
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  Back to the moon
NASA lays out its step-by-step plan to return to the moon by 2020.
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Highlights of space flight
NBC News' Brian Williams reports on the greatest moments and most powerful images of the original space race.

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  Eclipse images
Image: Solar eclipse
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  Eyes on the eclipse
Aug. 1, 2008: Scenes from the solar eclipse that swept from Canada to China.
Image: Total eclipse
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  Eclipse totality
Aug. 1, 2008: Watch the Exploratorium's coverage of a rare total solar eclipse, as seen from China.
Sun reflected on flower as moon blocks it, as seen in Amman
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  There goes the sun
March 29, 2006: Solar eclipse offers spectacular show across world.
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  Waiting for totality
March 29, 2006: People from around the world gather in Turkey.
A businessman watches the annular eclips
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  A rare ring
Oct. 3, 2005: Annular eclipse dazzles onlookers in Europe and Africa.
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  Greatest eclipse hits
See stunning images of past eclipses.
  2005: Discovery’s return to flight
DISCOVERY
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  The road to flight
NASA’s long journey to fly the shuttle again.
NASA Returns To Flight With Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery
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  We have liftoff!
Relive the launch of space shuttle Discovery
SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY  NOGUCHI
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  History-making spacewalk
Discovery astronaut makes unprecedented fix
Discovery Astronauts Continue Mission Tasks
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  Back in space
Highlights from Discovery's 14-day mission
Kennedy Space Center worker reacts to safe return of space shuttle Discovery in Cape Canaveral
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  Safe landing
Discovery and its crew welcomed back home
  Space history
ooking Back: The Mercury 7 NASA introduced the Project Mercury Astronauts to the world on April 9, 1959, only six months after the agency was established. Known as the Mercury 7 or Original 7, they are: front row, left to right, Walter H. "Wally" Schirra, Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper.
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10 firsts from NASA
Milestones from the space agency's first 50 years.
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Sputnik scenes
The machines and people behind the birth of the space age.
NASA's highs and lows
Trace the triumphs and tragedies of U.S. human spaceflight.
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  Deep Impact
July 2005: NASA probe slams into comet
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  SpaceShipOne
June 2004: Crowd watches first private manned spaceflight.
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  'We choose to go to the moon’
1959-1969: Retrace the steps that preceded Apollo 11
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  ‘One giant leap for mankind’
July 1969: Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing
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  'We leave as we came'
1969 and beyond: Our path in space since Apollo 11
Walter Schirra
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  Heights of fame
Revisit the high points in the career of pioneer astronaut Wally Schirra (1923-2007).

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