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StarStruck: Exploring the Universe
From new Mercury maps and how to drive a Mars rover to what's cooking on deep-space menus, we've got it covered.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Inspires LA
According to one local resident, people in Los Angeles are hard to impress. But bring a real spaceship to town and tow it through the streets? That’ll do it.
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Inside the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
This week, when the space shuttle Endeavour flies from Kennedy Space Center to Los Angeles and its new home at the California Science Center, it also means the retirement of the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA).
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Gigapan: Cockpit of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905
Go inside the cockpit of NASA’s 747 Shuttle Aircraft Carrier 905. The aircraft will ferry the retired space shuttle Endeavour on one final flight.
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Jane Goodall
Over the course of 50 years Jane has witnessed the lives of three generations of chimpanzees.
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Explorer Moment
Ed Viesturs shares an early morning view from Everest.
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Phenomena: A Science Salon
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Longevity Pictures
Our genes harbor many secrets to a long and healthy life. And now scientists are beginning to uncover them
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Element Hunters Pictures
All the elements found in nature—the different kinds of atoms—were found long ago. To bag a new one these days, and push the frontiers of matter, you have to create it first.
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Good Gas, Bad Gas
Burn natural gas and it warms your house. But let it leak, from fracked wells or the melting Arctic, and it warms the whole planet.
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Jane Goodall
Over the course of 50 years Jane has witnessed the lives of three generations of chimpanzees.
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Explorer Moment
Ed Viesturs shares an early morning view from Everest.
