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First Confirmed Capture into Earth Orbit Is Likely Apollo Rocket
NASA scientists have confirmed the first known capture of an object into Earth orbit from a Sun-centered orbit, thanks to continuing observations of what is most likely the long-lost third stage of a 1969 rocket to the Moon.

Students Can Soar To New Heights In NASA's Student Rocket Contest
The Team America Rocketry Challenge is a first-of-its-kind national amateur rocket competition for high school students. Co-sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry, the challenge is being held in conjunction with the nationwide Centennial of Flight celebration in 2003.

NASA TV Viewers Can Hitch A Space Shuttle Ride
For the first time, space shuttle astronauts will carry television viewers along for the initial ride into orbit. NASA Television viewers should see a spectacular live view of the orbiter when Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off Oct. 2.

'Space Movie' Reveals Crab Pulsar's Shocking Secrets
Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA’s great observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations made over several months with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan.

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