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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:58 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter

NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.


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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:02:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges

NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

NASA announced three new Centennial Challenges Tuesday, with an overall prize purse of $5 million. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding.


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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:02:59 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space Station

NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space Station
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

NASA has selected nine experiments, designed by students at seven schools, for astronauts to perform on the International Space Station this summer. NASA selected the proposals from among 132 received for the new Kids in Micro-g! Program.


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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:00:55 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA Sets Briefing to Preview Space Station Spacewalk

NASA Sets Briefing to Preview Space Station Spacewalk
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

NASA officials will discuss an upcoming International Space Station spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts during a news briefing at 2 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 21.


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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:00:55 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA Awards Rapid Response Space Works Contract

NASA Awards Rapid Response Space Works Contract
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

Serving as a contracting agent for the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, NASA has selected Millennium Engineering and Integration Co., of Arlington, Va., to receive a contract for Rapid Response Space Works (RRSW).


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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:01:47 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA Supporting Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Recovery

NASA Supporting Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Recovery
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is helping with the unprecedented effort to save wildlife from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:04:30 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA Finds Super Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail

NASA Finds Super Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a "cometary planet." The gas giant planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space.


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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:03:39 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA Television Debuts Full-Time High Definition Channel

NASA Television Debuts Full-Time High Definition Channel
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

On Monday, July 19, NASA Television will launch a full-time High Definition (HD) channel that media, cable and satellite service providers can access.


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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:02:49 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Information About Mercury

MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Information About Mercury
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet's atmosphere and evolution.


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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:02:30 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Teachers Get Hands-On Experience Through New NASA Internship

Teachers Get Hands-On Experience Through New NASA Internship
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

Select teachers will spend part of their summer learning about virtual technology in an effort to get their students excited about science, technology, engineering and math.


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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:03:01 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NASA's WISE Mission Ready to Complete Extensive Sky Survey

NASA's WISE Mission Ready to Complete Extensive Sky Survey
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0500

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17.


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