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NASA's New Horizons probe has entered the one billion-mile long home stretch on its space odyssey to Pluto. 
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The United States Air Force's X-37B space plane has been circling the planet for more than 10 months, on a mystery mission shrouded in secrecy. When will it come down?
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The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet that is racing through the inner solar system at up to 150,000 miles per hour while spewing chunks of ice, rock and dust may be to avoid the risky business of landing on it. Instead, researchers want to send a spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, then fire a harpoon to rapidly acquire samples from specific locations with surgical precision while hovering above the target. Using this "standoff" technique would allow samples to be collected even from areas that are much too rugged or dangerous to permit the landing and safe operation of a spacecraft. Via Paulo Furtado
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Travel to the Stars on a Space Sail | Science Illustrated http://t.co/cbO1LsU9 Via Panayiotis
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A NASA probe came closer to Pluto than any other vessel in the history of space travel on 2 December.
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Lockheed Martin's Collaborative Human Immersive Lab (CHIL) uses human controlled avatars to help design, build and maintain the next generation of satellites and aircraft, saving expensive and difficult flight testing.
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Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet-- and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a probe on it for a front row seat as the comet heads toward the sun.
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NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has put a pair of nearly identical spacecraft in orbit around the Moon. By using radio waves to measure tiny variations in the Moon's gravitational field, the spacecraft—named Ebb and Flow—will create a high-resolution map that will give scientists a clearer picture of what lies beneath the lunar surface and will provide insight into the evolution of terrestrial planets.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of science observations.
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The video footage posted on YouTube (below) taken by the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1), a camera system aboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft, managed to capture what looks like a large cylindrical object orbiting the planet Mercury.
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