[ August 23, 2016 ] One of NASA's cleanest spacecraft ever is ready to fly Atlas 5 and other top stories.

• [ August 23, 2016 ] One of NASA's cleanest spacecraft ever is ready to fly Atlas 5

  

  A member of the OSIRIS-REx team prepares the spacecraft for launch Sept. 8. The Atlas 5 rocket’s payload fairing is in the background. Credit: Ben Cooper/Launchphotography.com Five years after winning $1 billion from NASA to mount the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission, scientists and engineers will get their last look at the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft this week as it is closed up inside the nose cone of an Atlas 5 rocket for launch in September. The probe’s encapsulation inside the Atlas 5’s..

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• Total solar eclipse in 2017 likely to draw large crowd to GI

  

  To prepare for Aug. 21, 2017, when the moon will completely block out the sun, local officials are aiming for complete coverage of all eclipse-related opportunities. Grand Island’s plans for the total solar eclipse were outlined at a news conference at Stuhr Museum on Monday — one day less than a year before the event. Central Nebraska will be one of the best places to see the eclipse. Beginning at 12:58 p.m., the totality of the eclipse will be visible for 2 minutes and 34 seconds. We hav..

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• More tests set for Yellowstone, tributaries after fish kill

  

  MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press 8:06 p.m. MDT August 22, 2016Eric Burge of Livingston looks over the Yellowstone River after prematurely ending a multiday rafting trip because Montana wildlife officials closed a stretch of the river.(Photo: AP Photo/Matthew Brown)BILLINGS – Wildlife workers will conduct tests on fish from additional areas of Montana to determine the extent of a disease blamed in a massive fish kill along the Yellowstone River, officials said Monday.The state indefin..

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• WATCH LIVE: Scientists explore wreck of WWII aircraft carrier off California coast

  

  Lifting the veil on a key piece of World War II history, scientists on Monday launched an expedition to film and photograph the USS Independence, an aircraft carrier sitting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, 30 miles off the coast of Northern California.The search for the 623-foot-long shipwreck, which sits off Half Moon Bay 2,600 feet under the sea, was broadcast live with a webcast Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning at nautiluslive.org. By 5 p.m. Monday, the ghostly image of the stern ..

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• NASA's Curiosity Rover Sends Images Of Mars That Look Like The US Southwest

  

  Eroded mesas and buttes, capped with rock that is resistant to wind erosion: it sounds like scenery straight out of the U.S. Southwest, and you'd likely be inclined to believe so if you weren't made aware of the fact that it was actually the description for the latest images of Mars sent back from NASA's Curiosity Rover. To come up with the panorama, the rover made use of its Mast Camera. Through the Mastcam imaging system, Curiosity was able to capture a number of component images on Aug. 5, 2..

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• NASA opens research to public: Why that's a big deal

  

  It has been a good week for science and space enthusiasts.NASA announced last Tuesday that they would be releasing hundreds of peer-reviewed, scholarly articles on NASA-funded research projects online. The articles are entirely free to access for any member of the public.The new service is a big deal for the space agency, which has been gathering scientific information on a huge variety of topics since it was established in 1958.The move comes amid a greater push for scientists to make their re..

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• Reef castaways: Can coral make it across Darwin's 'impassable' barrier?

  

  The East Pacific Barrier; over 5,000 km of open ocean separating eastern Pacific coral reefs (in red) from their nearest neighbors to the west. Credit: S. Wood. Reef locations obtained from UNEP-WCMC (2010; …more. An international team of researchers ...

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• A First Peek at Russia's New Space Cargo Ship

  

  Russian engineers are finishing the design of a brand new space freighter that would replace the veteran Progress cargo ships supplying the International Space Station (ISS) with propellant, food, water and other goods, industry sources tell Popular Mechanics.The new vehicle will be about a ton heavier than its predecessor and will feature a radical new design. If it's actually built, the next-generation cargo ship will allow Russia to reduce the number of annual cargo shipments to the ISS from ..

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