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Geotimes July 2005 Lisa Pinsker	Deep Impact Strikes Back The scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) cheered yesterday as they received confirmation that the Deep Impact probe successfully hit its target, comet Tempel 1, after six months' and hundreds of millions of miles' worth of journey.
Geotimes July 2005 McFadden & Schultz	Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005	NASA probe uses Express Logic software NASA engineers used ThreadX software to manage cameras and collect data during the Deep Impact Probe mission intended to collide with deep-space comet Tempel 1.
Chemistry World July 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther	New Horizons sees red over Pluto's atmosphere Pluto's glowering red atmosphere may be harboring a complex concoction of hydrocarbons, according to the latest images from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft.
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet.
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Discovery Launch to be Aired Online The STS-114 shuttle launch has been postponed, but Yahoo and Akamai have agreed to broadcast the entire 12-day mission live online.
Fast Company February 2011 Michael Silverberg	Orbit: NASA's Space-Shuttle Program Ends As the $115 billion reusable-orbital program retires, let's look back at six notable missions from its 30-year history.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Comet Full of Fluff Investigations will turn up many clues as researchers have only started to sift through the data uncovered from the Deep Impact crater.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc.
Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Emma Stoye	Philae detects organics on comet's surface The first measurements taken by the Philae lander, which touched down on Comet 67P on 12 November, reveal organic compounds are present on the comet's surface, and also hint at a dense, icy interior.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA's New Spacecraft Will Touch The Sun Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins University are working on a space probe that will literally touch the surface of the sun.
Smithsonian December 2006 Eric Jaffe	Clues from a Comet The first mission to collect space matter from beyond the moon offers insights into the solar system's creation.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Stephen Cass	App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen
Wired December 2004 Steven Kotler	Next Stop, Europa The most promising place in the solar system to find life isn't Mars - it's Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system.
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	U.S. Soccer Loss a Big Win Online ESPN streamed a World Cup soccer game live with the help of content delivery network provider Akamai.
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole.
Popular Mechanics August 21, 2009 Andrew Moseman	NASA's Greatest Mission? Stardust Finds Amino Acids, Keeps on Giving to Science In Stardust's tennis racket shaped aerogel collectors, Michael Zolensky of NASA's Johnson Space Center and his colleagues found lots of surprises.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
Popular Mechanics October 24, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Scientists Fixing Hubble Contend With Antiquated Computers NASA scientists trying to find out what went wrong during last week's repair of the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves dealing with 486 processors and other outdated computer technology.
Geotimes February 2007 Cassandra Willyard	Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start.
Popular Mechanics March 22, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	The Best in Armchair Astronomy Some online sites post images from powerful telescopes around the world; others let viewers take control of the scopes.
Geotimes March 2005 Joseph Richard Gutheinz	Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids.
Wired November 24, 2008 Candice Chan	Mercury or Bust: Chasing Down the Galaxy's Fastest Planet In December, NASA's Messenger probe will make an orbit path around Mercury.
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert	Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles.
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever	Huygens touches down on Titan Grins and thumbs-up signs began a press conference to announce that the Huygens probe had landed successfully on Saturn's largest moon.
Chemistry World December 2009 Jon Cartright	Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries.
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile.
Chemistry World September 12, 2008 Hayley Birch	Q and A: The hunt for water on Mars The Phoenix Lander has been digging for water on Mars since late May 2008. Yet despite the best efforts of the NASA scientists at the controls, the solar-powered robot has hit nothing but ice.
Popular Mechanics May 7, 2009 Mark Anderson	When Comets Attack: Solving the Mystery of the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History Scientists today think a small fragment of a comet or asteroid caused the "Tunguska event," so named for the Tunguska river in Siberia.
Popular Mechanics December 2006 David Noland	The Threat is Out There More than 100,000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one -- that we know of -- may hit us in the next 30 years.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Making a Public Impact What the public observes or, better yet, captures on film both during the Deep Impact comet collision and in the weeks before and after, could prove useful to the team of NASA scientists trying to understand the comet and the effects of the impact.
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Leslie Sabbagh	Survival of the Oldest Payload Ever: The Stardust Spacecraft Returns to Earth After seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Emma Stoye	NASA probe sets off for Mars NASA's latest Mars mission -- the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter -- has begun its 10-month journey to the red planet after its successful launch this week from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US.
InternetNews July 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Yahoo's Video Mission With NASA Portal will provide 24/7 streaming coverage of Discovery's return to space mission. No ads will be displayed alongside the streaming video.
PC Magazine December 24, 2003 Jennifer Harsany	Out of This World The Deep Space Network will be used to communicate with spacecrafts landing on Mars collecting comet dust, and probing the rings and moons of Saturn.
AskMen.com	Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up.
AskMen.com	NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star.
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel.
Wired August 2004 Erik Davis	Mars Gone Wild Poring over pictures of the Red Planet, widely available online, millions of amateur astronomers are coming up with their own Martian theories.
Chemistry World October 29, 2015 Emma Stoye	Rosetta detects oxygen on comet 67P Molecular oxygen has been detected in the cloud of gas surrounding comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta space probe.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale	Deep Impact Probe Uses Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS, Green Hills Software's MULTI IDE ThreadX is a small-footprint, highly responsive real time operating system, ideal for applications in resource-constrained systems like those aboard the Deep Impact spacecraft. All software for the project was developed using MULTI IDE, a completely integrated development environment for embedded applications.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers	Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.
AskMen.com	Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA.
Geotimes March 2004	NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Bush retools space program As the Mars rover Spirit prepares to drive off its platform tonight and into the martian terrain, President Bush prepared the United States to send humans to the red planet and beyond.