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NASA Plans for Deep Space Human Exploration, Fosters Commercial Spaceflight

In 2011, NASA began developing a heavy-lift rocket for the human exploration of deep space, helped foster a new era of commercial spaceflight, fully utilized a newly complete space station and made major discoveries about the universe.

› Learn More | › Video: This Year at NASA | › Vote on the Top Stories of 2011

Expedition 30 Docks to the Space Station

Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers joined their Expedition 30 crewmates when the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the International Space Station officially opened at 12:43 p.m. EST.

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NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn

No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have delivered a holiday package of glorious images.

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NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.

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Orion Parachute Testing: Working Towards the Future of Exploration

A test article that mimics the Orion spacecraft is seen under parachutes as NASA engineers conducted a drop test above Yuma, Ariz. The team was examining how the spacecraft would land under only two parachutes, instead of the normal three.

› Learn More | › View Image Gallery | › Watch 'Orion: From Factory to Flight'

Dawn Obtains First Low-Altitude Images of Vesta

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy surface in detail never seen before.

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NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The galaxy, GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found at such great distances.

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Cryogenic Testing On NASA'S WEBB Telescope Mirrors

Cryogenic Testing Completed for NASA's Webb Telescope Mirrors

Cryogenic testing is complete for the final six primary mirror segments and a secondary mirror that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope. The milestone represents the culmination of a process that pushed limits in manufacturing large mirrors.

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NASA Images

Festival of Lights

WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has a new view of Barnard 3, or IRAS Ring G159.6-18.5, that is awash in bright green and red dust clouds....