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New observations by a NASA space telescope that mapped the entire sky suggest that there are fewer potentially threatening asteroids in the solar system than previously thought.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and commander of Apollo 11, said the United States risks squandering 5 decades of space research, work, and accomplishments, if the nation does not find ways to restore hope and confidence in NASA, as part of a unified sense of purpose on space exploration.

Researchers have found that geyser-like icy jets released by Saturn's moon, Enceladus, strongly influences the chemical composition of its parent planet.

In a preparation for future space exploration, a group of NASA's diving crew will live in Aquarius underwater research laboratory located near Key Largo, Florida during October.

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.

NASA is working on a 320-feet multi-billion-dollar Space Launch System (SLS), which is also the world's largest rocket, aiming to explore nearby asteroid around 2025 and then on to Mars in the 2030s.

NASA's twin GRAIL Satellites finally launched on their mission to the moon on Saturday, after two failed attempts caused by severe weather conditions.

After its first failed attempt on Thursday, NASA’s twin satellites were finally launched on Saturday morning, said the agency.

NASA finally launched its GRAIL mission, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, its first mission to map the Moon's inner core.

NASA is on its way back to the moon, embarking upon a new study that could help launch future manned missions one day.NASA's Grail mission launched this morning, as the Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity and Recovery and Interior Laboratory lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Saturday at 6:08 a.m. EDT amid clear skies. It is the 110th mission to the moon in history, with previous missions launched by the United States, Soviet Union, Japan, China and India.

Spectators at the Cocoa Beach became witness to the third attempt by NASA to launch the dual-spacecraft mission finally as it lifted off from Cape Canaveral.

NASA had scratched the planned launches on Thursday and Friday, initially because of foul weather and then because of a data glitch.

After a two-day delay NASA finally launched a pair of satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday on its first mission to study the moon in unprecedented detail.

NASA has delayed the GRAIL launch one more day in order to review propulsion system data from Thursday's detanking operation.

NASA has postponed the launch of twin moon gravity-mapping spacecrafts until Saturday to give engineers time to investigate a glitch with the Delta 2 rocket that will carry the probes into space.

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NASA has put off the launch of its GRAIL mission, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, to moon Thursday morning as the upper level winds were in violation of the launch criteria.

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NASA's GRAIL launch delayed due to high winds.

On Thursday, NASA will launch two unmanned spacecraft to the moon, nearly forty-two years after US astronaut Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag on the lunar surface.

The countdown to twin GRAIL spacecraft mission to Moon is moving ahead toward a lift-off at 8:37 am EDT, NASA said in a statement. Forecasters still are calling for a 40 percent chance of good weather at the scheduled launch time.