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Next Launch: SpaceX CRS-2

SpaceX Falcon logo on rocket.

Launch Date: March 1, 2013
Launch Window: 10:10 a.m. EST
Launch Vehicle: Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

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Upcoming: Interface Region Imaging Spectograph (IRIS)

Pegasus drops away from the L-1011

Launch Date:
No earlier than April 28
Launch Window: 10:29:57 p.m. to 10:34:57 p.m. EDT
Launch Vehicle:
Pegasus XL
Launch Site:
Vandenberg AFB, Calif.

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Top Stories

Kennedy Engineers Designing Plant Habitat

Some of the research on the International Space Station is already focusing on meeting the needs of long-term spaceflights beyond low-Earth orbit. During Expedition 29 in 2011, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov checks the progress of new growth in the Rastenia investigation aboard the space station. (NASA)

NASA's Kennedy Space Center uses in-house expertise to develop an International Space Station Plant Habitat for microgravity plant growth studies.

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Refueling in Space to Help Enable Exploration

OASIS plan for spaceports.

Space station robotic demo mirrors the vision of international space students.

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New Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Installed

Wind Radar Field

NASA is replacing decades-old wind measurement equipment with upgraded Doppler radar near the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility.

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Landsat Data Continuity Mission Awaits Liftoff

Payload fairing is positioned around the LDCM spacecraft.

When the newest Landsat spacecraft trains its state-of-the-art sensors on Earth's surface, it will provide images of our ever-changing planet in unparalleled clarity.

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Israeli Students Honor Hometown Hero

Jon McBride

As NASA honored the astronauts lost on the Columbia's STS-107 mission, students from a crew member's hometown joined Day of Remembrance ceremonies.

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