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Space exploration

Voyager 1
Those old models? Wrong
Published Spring 2013
Thirty-five years into a four-year mission, Voyager is still making surprising discoveries / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Cost in space
Published Spring 2013
Is space exploration worth the cost? A new book offers a critical and engaging defense / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Belt expansion
Published Feb 28, 2013
APL-built spacecraft discover previously undetected third radiation belt around Earth / Applied Physics Laboratory
Mercury findings
Published Nov 29, 2012
Messenger observations point to existence of water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters / Applied Physics Laboratory
A long, strange trip
Published Sept 21, 2012
JHU alum is curator for aerospace science at California Science Center, where retired shuttle Endeavour will reside / NPR
Deep space
A galaxy far, far away
Published Sept 19, 2012
Astronomers spot what could be most distant galaxy ever seen, 13.2 billion light-years away
APL's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes blast off
Published Aug 30, 2012
Satellites will investigate hazardous regions of near-Earth space known as Van Allen belts / Applied Physics Laboratory