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 Expedition 10 launch
Station Docking Tonight
Expedition 10 launches to the International Space Station Oct. 13 at 11:06 p.m. EDT.
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 possible new moon at Saturn
Cassini Finds New Object in Saturn's F Ring
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 Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist on STS 107. Image credit: NASA/JSC.
Ames Names Supercomputer for 'KC'
'Kalpana' will deliver high-resolution ocean analysis.
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 The Moon
President's Space Commission Report
Moon, Mars and Beyond.
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 10.15.04 - Shuttle Processing Report: S04-034
Processing continues in the Orbiter Processing Facility for Discovery's Return to Flight mission to the International Space Station.
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 10.15.04 - Chief Inducted Into Hall Of Fame
Dr. Nitza Margarita Cintron was inducted into the Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Hall of Fame on Oct. 7.
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 10.14.04 - New Chief Engineer Named
Administrator today named Rex Geveden as the chief engineer and director of the independent technical authority, effective Nov. 1.
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 Artist's concept of an extrasolar planetary system
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