As usual, we did lots of awesome stuff at NASA this year. It’s hard not to do cool things when your job description includes “explore space.” You can check out our full list of 2013 accomplishments here , but here are a few of our favorites:
1. We announced that we're going to actually CAPTURE a giant space rock and send astronauts in the new Orion spacecraft to study it. Not a movie. Really doing it.
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2. Voyager has left the solar system. Yes, something made by humans and launched from Earth in the 70s is now in interstellar space. Someone put the Enterprise crew on alert.
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3. Commercial spaceflight is in business, with SpaceX's Dragon and Orbital's Cygnus flying resupply missions to the International Space Station from American soil.
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4. We sent multiple crews from around the world to humanity's ultimate home away from home -- the International Space Station. By the way, it's been up there for 15 years, and humans have been living, working and doing science research there for 13 of them. No sign of Bullock or Clooney yet, though.
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