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In this picture made available by NASA, the last crew of the space shuttle Endeavour stands together on Launch Pad 39A in front of its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, April 28, 2011, one day before its final flight. From left are Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Andrew Feustel, Pilot Greg H. Johnson, Commander Mark Kelly, European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori and Mission Specialist Greg Chamitoff. (AP Photo/NASA, Kim Shiflett) (AP)

In this picture made available by NASA, the last crew of the space shuttle Endeavour stands together on Launch Pad 39A in front of its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, April 28, 2011, one day before its final flight. From left are Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Andrew Feustel, Pilot Greg H. Johnson, Commander Mark Kelly, European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori and Mission Specialist Greg Chamitoff. (AP Photo/NASA, Kim Shiflett) (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., takes part in a reenactment of her swearing-in, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Time magazine has named Giffords one of the 100 most influential people in the world. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) (AP)

Ramit Plushnick-masti

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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 26, 2005 file picture, crowds watch as Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery and seven astronauts blasted into orbit Tuesday on America's first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster, ending a painful, 2-year shutdown devoted to making the shuttle less risky and NASA more safety-conscious. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin) (AP)

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Fuel is loaded into the space shuttle Discovery as she sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Discovery and her crew of six astronauts are scheduled to lift off this afternoon on an 11-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/John Raoux) (AP)

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What's next for NASA?

Adam Clark Estes

In this image provided by NASA the Italian-built Permanent Multipurpose Module in the grasp of the International Space Station's Canadarm2 is being transferred from space shuttle Discovery's payload bay to be permanently attached to the Earth-facing port of the station's Unity node Tuesday March 1, 2011. Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene. (AP Photo/NASA) (AP)

Jessica Gresko, Seth Borenstein

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Dramatization of Apophis asteroid striking Earth

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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords, left, is shown with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. There are hints that astronaut Mark Kelly will take a shuttle into space in April. That would mean leaving his wounded wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, to continue her rehab work without him for at least a few weeks. Scott Kelly, also an astronaut, said his brother would decide fairly soon whether to fly the space shuttle mission in April. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File) (AP)

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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords, left, is shown with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. There are hints that astronaut Mark Kelly will take a shuttle into space in April. That would mean leaving his wounded wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, to continue her rehab work without him for at least a few weeks. Scott Kelly, also an astronaut, said his brother would decide fairly soon whether to fly the space shuttle mission in April. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File) (AP)

This is an Jan. 2011 handout artist rendering provided by NASA. NASAs Kepler telescope is finding that relatively smaller planets _ still larger than Earth, but tinier than Jupiter _ are proving more common outside our solar system than once thought. This drawing is of one of the smallest planets that Kepler has found, a rocky planet called Kepler-10b, that measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and where the temperature is more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital Inc., Kepler Mission, NASA Ames Research Center) (AP)

Seth Borenstein

Henry Cruz, lower right, looks at a space shuttle Challenger replica honoring USAF Colonel Ellison Onizuka, the first Japanese American astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion in 1986, at a memorial Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011 in Los Angeles. Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger which killed seven astronauts. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (AP)

This handout photo provided by NASA, taken April 12, 2010 by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy. NASA released Monday the Hubble Space Telescopes first picture of the mysterious giant glowing green blob of gas called Hannys Voorwerp. The blob is the size of our Milky Way galaxy and is 650 million light years away. Each light year is about 6 trillion miles. The blob was discovered in 2007 by Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel. (AP Photo/Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute) (AP)

Seth Borenstein

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Test flight of new private spacecraft set for Wed.

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GFAJ-1 grown on arsenic, left, and the Mono Lake Research area

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Randolph E. Schmid

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NASA's Spirit Rover discovers water on Mars

Christopher R Walker

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