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Sep 10, 2018
After 11 years, NASA’s asteroid-hopping spacecraft is running out of fuel
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Dec 13, 2011
Is Vesta Actually a Planet Posing as an Asteroid?
The asteroid Vesta was first discovered two centuries ago, but until NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived there earlier this year and...
Oct 10, 2007
Dawn Fires Up Engines
The Dawn spacecraft might have a 3-billion-mile journey ahead of it, but that doesn’t mean NASA engineers are rushing to...