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A 1991 Martinsville High School graduate, Dan Helmick, who is serving as a robotics researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has earned fame for his tremendous research work utilized in the two Mars Exploration Rovers those have gathered information from Mars.

NASA decided against plans to give Curiosity Mars rover a pair of 3D cameras since they do not have enough time test everything before Curiosity is set to launch to go to the red planet of Mars later in the year. Right now, Curiosity already has a pair of cameras made by Malin Space Science Systems, who were also working with James Cameron to come up with a suitable 3D lens model.

In what happens to be the second straight setback to NASA’s weakened environmental monitoring program, Taurus XL rocket carrying the space agency’s ‘Glory’ Earth-observation satellite plummeted into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, after its failed take-off attempt from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

On Monday, the first spacewalk of the shuttle Discovery's final space mission was interrupted due to a robotic system shutdown, which left spacewalker Stephen Bowen stranded with an 800-pound pump in his hands for almost half an hour.

In a Wednesday statement, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) revealed that the Sun unleashed a massive 'X-class' flash on Tuesday. The flare - the strongest solar flare since 2006 - spread from Active Region 1158 in the southern hemisphere of the Sun.

According to a February 14 statement by NASA administrator Charles Bolden, if the US space agency continues to operate at 2010 funding levels as it has been doing, it will have enough money for a third – and, apparently, the last - space shuttle mission this year.

Despite the fact that it is still not clear whether the government will fund Alliant Techsystems’ (ATK) rocket which will haul astronauts to the International Space Station, the Utah-based firm has decided to go ahead with its project, believing that there will be no dearth of commercial passengers.

NASA’s twin STEREO observatories recently captured the complete surface of the Sun in one image for the first time. With the two orbiting space telescopes reaching the diametrically-opposite sides of the Sun for a few seconds, a 360-degree coverage of the Sun was beamed back to the US space agency on Sunday.

According to NASA scientists, the identification of 1,200 likely new ‘exoplanets’ by the US space agency’s Kepler telescope hint at a possible three-fold increase in the number of ‘exoplanets’ – that is, planets beyond our solar system.