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6/12/06 - Spirit Rover Spies Possible Meteorite on Mars
The large rock in the center foreground of this picture is suspected of being an iron meteorite. The rock, informally named "Allan Hills," has a smoother texture and lighter tone than other rocks in the area.
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5/11/06 - Limber Robot Might Hitchhike to Space
Lemurs, those wide-eyed, active, monkey-like animals running around the island in the movie "Madagascar," are known for their ability to leap. A robotic lemur being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory moves more slowly, but might someday take its own giant leap - by going into space with astronauts.
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5/9/06 - JPL Open House: A Kid's Perspective
My name is Raina Wessen and I'm a 12-year-old who has been to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Open House at least six times so I'm an expert on all the cool stuff that happens at the lab on those two days.
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4/28/06 - Take Our Child to Work Day
More than 600 children accompanied their parents to work today during JPL's annual event. Children tagged along for an on-the-job perspective of robotics labs, science and mission planning, web publishing and more. Kids also created their own constellations and saw a demonstration of the Mars rovers.
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3/28/06 - Forty Years of Space Talk
"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
That famous communique from Apollo 11 during the historic first-ever moon walk was brought to you by the 64-meter antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network in Goldstone, Calif.
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3/14/06 - Rover Team Honored
The team responsible for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover missions has received the National Air and Space Museum Trophy, the museum's highest honor.
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10/19/05 - NASA Expands Rover Science Team
NASA has selected eight new members for the Mars Exploration Rovers' science team.
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9/29/05 - Students Tour JPL for La Familia Technology Space Day
Students from local schools visited JPL during this year's La Familia Technology Space Day.
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7/20/04 - Apollo 11 Experiment Still Going Strong after 35 Years
It was the summer of '69. Director John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" had won the Oscar for Best Picture; the Rolling Stones' newly released "Honky Tonk Women" was climbing the charts; 400,000 people were gearing up to attend Woodstock…and America landed on the Moon, making "one giant leap for mankind."
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4/26/04 - Black Magic or a Bag of Tricks?
In his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Optics Engineer Larry Scherr sits before a buzzing computer, sketching geometrical shapes on a sheet of graph paper.
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