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Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California waited with bated breath as their latest project entered the make or break phase. The agency's latest spaceraft, called Juno after the wife of Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2011 and traveled over 400 million miles through our solar system to reach its final destination, the largest planet in our solar neighborhood, Jupiter.
NASA experiments with a new fabric that may be a cheaper and safer option for housing crews during long stays in space. Rough cut - subtitled (no reporter narration).
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter marks a decade of scientific discoveries on the Red Planet. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
NASA ignites an RS-25 engine like those that will power the rocket that could one day launch astronauts to Mars. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Dubai, July 7 (EFE / EPA) .- The UAE's Nora al-Matrooshi became Wednesday the Arab woman chosen by astronaut Mohammed A Mulla among more than 4,000 candidates for a space mission with NASA. (Camera: ALI HAIDER)SHOT LIST: UAE'S NORA AL-MATROOSHI AND MOHAMMAD A MULLA DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN DUBAI, UAE.