02-13-2019
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Mission Ends After 15-Years
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key_> water, geology

11-27-2018
NASA lands probe on Mars
- the InSight lander will drill into the martian surface to detect quakes - Mars quakes
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key_> planetary space exploration - geology - seismicity

05-05-2018
NASA launches InSight lander to Mars
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key_> planetary space exploration - geology - seismicity

02-19-2017
Successful launch of SPACE X rocket
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key_> CAPE CANAVERAL ; Falcon 9 - ISS cargo

03-01-2016
Astronaut S.Kelly returns to Earth after a one year stint on the ISS ending the longest duration space mission by an American astronaut
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key_> twin brother astronaut - medical analysis - DNA analysis ;

09-28-2015
Signs of liquid water found in "warm" zones on Mars
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key_> planetary explorarion

07-23-2015
First earth-like EXO-PLANET found with the aide of the KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE
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key_> Kepler 452B

07-14-2015
NEW HORIZONS mission to PLUTO is a success - 9.5 yrs - 3 billion miles
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key_> unmanned space probe - planetary exploration

03-06-2015
NASA's Dawn Mission arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres located between Jupiter and Mars
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key_> discovered 1801 ;

12-05-2014
NASA launches the Orion deep space test capsule
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key_> manned space mission / Mars

11-12-2014
Rosetta mission successfully lands probe on comet P67
- the mission launched 10 years ago and used the gravity sling shot method to gain enough speed and distance to reach the comet
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key_> European space agency ; deep space rendezvous

10-31-2014
The Virgin Galatic Spaceship II breaks up in flight
2 days earlier a commercial rocket blows up 6 seconds into sending supplies to the ISS
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key_> commercial space flight ; passenger space flight

12-13-2013
China land a rover on the moon
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key_> space exploration

08-16-2013
Kepler telescope launched in 2009 fails a year beyond its design life
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key_> astronomy ; extra planetary systems

02-15-2013
An asteroid passes within 17,000 miles of Earth - well inside of many artificial satellites * as cosmic coincidence a 10-ton meteorite hits 1000 miles east of Moscow
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key_> astronomy - near earth asteroid ; earth crossing asteroid

12-12-2012
Satellite launch by North Korea successful - considered a ruse by the international community - really believed to be a long range missile test
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key_> nuclear arms - ballistic missile

09-19-2012
NASA images show record arctic sea ice loss - 18% more than previous record set in 2005
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key_> global warming \ global climate change

08-06-2012
NASA safely lands probe on Mars
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key_> Curiosity rover

08-06-2012
Unmanned probe " Curiosity " lands safely on Mars
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key_> NASA

06-18-2012
China launches another manned space mission
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key_> China space station prelude / female astronaut

05-23-2012
Space X launches a capsule to dock with Int'l Space Station (ISS)

09-14-2011
NASA announces new rocket design
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key_> Space Launch System ; Saturn V rocket - 1970s moon exploration

07-21-2011
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ENDS
The safe landing of the shuttle Atlantis after 13 days in space brings the program to a close
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key_> Atlantis - 33 missions - 26 years ; 135 shuttle missions

10-22-2008
India launches 1st unmanned lunar probe
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key_> space program - history

09-27-2008
Chinese astronaut makes 1st spacewalk
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key_> China space program - history

08-03-2008
Space X rocket fails shortly after launch with three satellites aboard
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key_> Falcon 1

01-19-2007
China successfully tests anti-satellite weapon
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key_> military space program

08-23-2006
Pluto to be classified as dwarf-planet
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key_> planetary science

10-12-2005
China launches 2nd manned space mission
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key_> space exploration

08-09-2005
Shuttle lands safely
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key_> space exploration

07-26-2005
Space Shuttle back in space - 1st flight since the Columbia disaster - tile damage on takeoff
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key_> space exploration

10-27-2004
Cassini space probe sends images of Jovian moon Titan
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key_> space exploration - Jupiter

10-04-2004
Spaceship One wins the X-PRIZE
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key_> sub-orbital flight

06-21-2004
Space Ship One, the first privately funded manned space venture, succeeds in suborbital flight
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key_> X-PRIZE ; commercial space flight- space tourist ;

03-18-2004
A new planetoid, Sedna, found orbiting 8 billion miles away
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key_> NASA - Hubble space telescope

03-02-2004
Evidence of past water found on Mars
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key_> robotic probe - geology

01-25-2004
Opportunity rover lands on Mars - the Spirit rover, which landed three weeks ago, has been experiencing technical problems
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key_> NASA - unmanned planetary space probe; robotic space probe - rover

01-03-2004
The Spirit probe lands successfully on Mars - the Opportunity probe is about three weeks away
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key_> NASA - unmanned planetary space probe; robotic space probe - rover

07-04-1997
Pathfinder lands safely on Mars
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key_> NASA, rover - smaller, cheaper, faster

04-12-1981
Successful launch of space shuttle Columbia
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key_> NASA - Kennedy Space Center

09-03-1976
VIKING 2 lands safely on MARS
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key_> NASA - planetary exploration - search for life ; Utopia Plain - Mars

07-20-1976
VIKING 1 lands safely on MARS
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key_> NASA - planetary exploration - search for life ; Chryse Plain - Mars ; 11 month journey - $ 1_B project - 7 year development

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